The only thing left on our veg plot was the courgette plants. They still each had five or six tiny courgettes but they hadn’t grown in the last few weeks so we decided that they were finished.
Everything else was already finished but we had left the plants in as we knew that as soon as we removed them the cats would move in and use the veg plot as their toilet.
It was time to clear the plot. My husband removed the spent plants and lightly raked the plot.
In the afternoon we went to our local woods and collected twigs. As luck would have it a tree was down and there were lots of twigs laying around it. We collected quite a haul.
We have collected twigs and started to plant the veg plot
The completed veg plot
Last year was the first year that we tried this and it worked quite well. It keeps the cats off and we think it looks okay, sort of rustic, and better than being just empty. It will stay like this now until the spring.
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Such a good idea, We took our beens down yesterday, had our last meal
with beans, we grow 30 beans, as i sell them as well as eating them most days.
my favourite vegetable. so it took quite a time getting them down. another job
done before winter. They say the weather is going to start getting cold
from Sunday. I also put all my plants away, for this year, I have had a good run.
We are lucky that the cats dont use our garden as their toilet, but if they did
we would copy your idea, like you said, it looks quite tidy as well.
Wow that is a lot of beans. We had three runner beans and a row of dwarf beans. It is a good feeling to have it all tidy before winter.
I am sure that it is because you have a dog that you don’t have a cat problem. We have always had a cat problem here. It’s been a problem here on a scale we have never had in any other garden. I have come to like the twiggy look though!
I love this look. It’s beautiful and so natural.
It’s grown on me actually. I think it looks better than being empty.
That’s a great idea. We used to get a lot of cats in our garden, there were a couple of very young ones that would come and see us. I didn’t like the mess they occasionally made though!
I realised that there was a gap in the fence in one corner and it was a pathway that the cats used to pass between gardens. So I panneled it off. They still came through though.
Moving forward, and since we got chickens I have only seen a cat passing through a couple of times.
We are surrounded by cats and they seem to like our garden for some reason. I don’t mind at all picking up after my chickens but I dislike having to pick up after other peoples cats plus it’s off putting having them use the veg plot. The girls often start shouting the alarm when they see a cat in the garden and yet they take no notice of the many squirrels that also frequent our garden.