How to Neutralize Cat Urine

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Orchidgirl8 Wappingers Falls, NY Jul 13, 2015

I am excavating an area in front of my house where I had several Boxwood for many years...They started dying little by little and a local landscaper came over to help me figure out what was going on...We eventually realized that my two cats were going behind the shrubs and peeing in the dirt which was killing the plants...So, the Boxwood are now gone and I am excavating that area in prep for planting several beautiful "Quick Fire" hydrangeas that I recently purchased to put there...I am concerned about the condition of the dirt there and about putting the new shrubs into dirt that has been contaminated by significant amounts of cat pee...Is there anything that I can mix into the soil to neutralize the urine before putting the plant in????...I don't want to go to all this trouble of re-landscaping the area only to find the urine in the soil harming the new shrubs...
FYI: I am going to spread "Cat Scram" all around the area once we are done to repel the cats from going there but I want to do what I can to fix the soil that has already been contaminated before I put new plants there...Any suggestions?????

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Jul 13, 2015

If you are unwilling to invest in a soil test to determine the true conditions in this planting location, then you might as well believe anything that is stated here or by your local landscaper.

Cat urine is the least of the problems enunciated here.

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mapn53 Wheaton, IL(Zone 5a) Jul 31, 2015

Are you sure it was cat pee? I think boxwoods smell like cat urine all by themselves. I agree with getting your soil tested. Most plants suffer when they're planted up against the house. Not enough water, poor soil left over from excavating your basement etc. I had a bed that wouldn't grow much of anything. It later turned out that right before we moved in our neighbor had just cut down a walnut tree. It was years before the soil recovered. When you add new plants be sure to add beneficial microbes with the plants. It makes a HUGE difference.

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