Okay, help me out here. As a native Iowan, I've seen my share of gardens, even won a blue ribbon at the state fair as a boy. So what I don't understand is why cat poop would hurt a garden. Before farmers started using toxic chemicals for fertilizer, everybody used manure. An Italian gardner my dad knew used to put a dead fish in the hole with each tomato plant.

If cats don't eat the vegitables, why do you care if they add nutrients to the soil?

In my neghiborhood, the problem is deer. Keeping the deer out of ones garden is a much bigger problem.

      - Mark