digging in the garden
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| I was wondering that last year! I don't have so much digging in my garden as much as Wendel likes to use my flowerbeds for his number 2's. You have no idea how DISGUSTING it was to clean in the spring! I have monitored my dogs, since I just planted flowers in my eye-sore portion of the backyard. I have reprimanded my dogs when they attempted to eat my new flowers. So far, so good! |
| I put reclaimed beach rock from the coastally shorelines of Nova Scotia (hope there are no Department of Natural Recourses people reading this)...in my shrubs and perennial beds and resigned myself to the fact that all my annuals go into pots and hanging baskets. My boys think,, if it's dirt, it's there for the digging... |
tsk tsk!  you should come to Hirtles Beach on the south shore. Check out the rocks in the picture. |
sheryl wrote: Any tips to keep my boys from digging in the garden? Thanks HAHAHAHAHAHA - good luck. Not laughing at you, but unless I am right there with Patch while she is surveying the backyard, she digs a hole, circles a few times, and plops down in the nice cool fresh wonderful dirt. I could NEVER keep her clean like some of the posters on here, she enjoys her dirt too much. Only a few plantings suffer. |
Mine only dig if they get bored. Which translates into Todd leaving them out in the dog yard for too long....  I fill in the top layer of dirt with a little fresh poop (theirs  ) and they rarely touch the space again. Riley is the main digger, but being a rat terrier, I figure it comes most naturally to him.  |
| Yep, they don't mess with their poop..........unless the dog is Shane's reincarnation. He'd pick it up and move it so he could dig a new wallow. It is because of the dogs I had to move the flowers to behind a fence. We never could quite reach a compromise. An electrified wire didn't work, they figured they could dig up the fence pots and not hit the wire. (well, most never figured it out, but it only takes one to destroy defences (no pun intended). Try a visual barrier, a small fence and plenty of scolds and maybe repellent spray to reinforce the dog-go zone. There are the motion detectors that turn on a sprinkler attached to a hose. |
sheryl wrote: Any tips to keep my boys from digging in the garden? Thanks We didn't have the digging issue in the garden but we had it in our yard... the best thing I found that works... sounds really silly, but it works is taking their own waste (yes, poop) and putting in the hole they dug... they will not dig their again. Maybe that will work, but not sure you want that in your garden...? |
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