{"id":32818,"date":"2015-04-29T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=32818"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:54:01","slug":"make-reusable-cat-barrier-covers-for-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/make-reusable-cat-barrier-covers-for-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Reusable Cat Barrier Covers for Your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32840\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cat-barrier-covers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32840\" title=\"Don't let cats deter you from gardening - try these simple covers to deter them from doing damage.\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cat-barrier-covers-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Don't let cats deter you from gardening - try these simple covers to deter them from doing damage.\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cat-barrier-covers-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cat-barrier-covers-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cat-barrier-covers.jpg 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t let cats deter you from gardening &#8211; try these simple covers to deter them from doing damage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Our two cats<\/strong> seems to have been more destructive in my garden than usual this year. Maybe it is because the kids aren&#8217;t outside with them as much, plus the cats are older and <del>lazier<\/del> less mobile. They still catch mice and squirrels periodically; and I think they keep some bird damage in\u00a0my garden at bay, but they have been using my raised beds more thoroughly as litter boxes &#8211; right after I have carefully planted seeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I figured that<\/strong> anything I used as a cover, to keep the cats out, needed to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>let light through<\/li>\n<li>let water through<\/li>\n<li>be easy to move for weeding and planting<\/li>\n<li>have enough height to protect young seedlings up to a few inches tall<\/li>\n<li>be fairly simple to make<\/li>\n<li>be relatively inexpensive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And thus, I<\/strong> came up with my reusable covers made out of welded wire fencing, the same wire fencing that we used<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/a-permanent-weather-proof-back-fence-chicken-tunnel\/\" target=\"_blank\">to make chicken tunnels<\/a><\/span>. I made a youtube video about it, that starts out with cute little kittens, but soon gets to showing how I made my cat barrier covers. Now, I can get to re-planting and planting there with more hope of success. (below the video I list some basic points about building them for reference.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pt6VVLOSEWI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I used most a hundred foot roll of 4 foot wide wire fencing to cover four 12 foot long by 4 foot wide by 1 foot tall raised beds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Each raised bed is covered by three sections or cover modules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I cut the wire fencing midway between the parallel wires so that I had prongs to help secure and connect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wire fencing is very sharp where cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The end sections of the two end modules could be attached at the top with the pieces or prongs left sticking out, but I usually had to cut a piece of fence tying wire to attach the bottom corners of the end panel to the sides of the end cover module.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The cats have not bothered my raised beds since I put the wire covers on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our two cats seems to have been more destructive in my garden than usual this year. Maybe it is because the kids aren&#8217;t outside with them as much, plus the cats are older and lazier less mobile. They still catch mice and squirrels periodically; and I think they keep some bird damage in\u00a0my garden at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,104],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}