Cats and bean plants

[lefty_logan]

Does anybody have an explanation of why my indoor cat has eaten 2 pinto bean and 1 kentucky wonder pole bean plants

Thanks,
Logan

[Polar_Lace]

Originally Posted by lefty_logan

Does anybody have an explanation of why my indoor cat has eaten 2 pinto bean and 1 kentucky wonder pole bean plants

Thanks,
Logan

That's really simple! They do love veggies and most greens! You can use these ideas for your plants or seedlings: 1 2 3 4

Steel Wire, gauge 1/2 inch.

~* Robin

[newatthiskat]

Also if you supply kitty with some cat grass in a totally different area as well as a catnip plant that might help. I of course have only just thought about this myself after my cat went off on my tomatoes and pepper plants. kept waiting for her to get sick but she has not.
Kat

[lefty_logan]

Thanks Robin and Kat.

My bean plants are getting their stems back after about a week.

The bean plants were on the first row of where we keep plants on the kitchen counter. She went over tomatoes and cucumbers to get the beans.

Logan

[Barbee]

I always kept a pot of rye grass for our cat. It grows like crazy and Bob loved it. He'd get right up in the kitchen window sill and rub his face up in there and chomp away on it. I'd be happy to mail you some if you want to pm me your address. We use it for a cover crop on out fields in the winter and I've got tons (literally) of it.

[lefty_logan]

Thanks for the offer Barbee but I think we're going to get some cat nip or cat grass for her.

I woke up this morning and I found the holes in some cucumber leaves on the same windosil. Looks like they need to be kept outside now.

[Polar_Lace]

Originally Posted by lefty_logan

Thanks for the offer Barbee but I think we're going to get some cat nip or cat grass for her.

I woke up this morning and I found the holes in some cucumber leaves on the same windosil. Looks like they need to be kept outside now.

While you're there Logan; look for some Oat Grass, seeds or plant, my cats prefer that over the cat grass which is Wheat.

~* Robin

[SteveS]

I remember 1 year my wife wanted me to grow her some Zinnias. So I got a packet of seed showing some beautiful flowers & dutifully planted them. I had the seed flat in our upstairs bathroom, figuring the humidity & slightly greater warmth would be good for the seedlings. At that time we had an elderly Himalayan cat. She was missing quite a few teeth. Somehow she got up on the vanity & managed to behead the majority of my seedlings! We roar laughing remembering that. Of course, I just had to re-seed them. Now, she didn't get to the maters...otherwise she would have suffered the consequences!
Steve

[Polar_Lace]

Steve,

Zinnias always came up so fast in Zone 4 and 5; I never had to sow them in a cell pack. I just planted them straight outside where I wanted them, after soaking the ground soil. I just pushed the arrow point down in the soil.
What a laugh about your ol' cat though!

I found out that I could use cloth type screening around my plant shelves, when germinating seeds in cell packs; I hold them closed with those squeeze type paper clips and remove them to water and such.

~* Robin