Thread: Help, the plants are going to the dogs.
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Old 09-02-2009, 12:32 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
David Hare-Scott[_2_] David Hare-Scott[_2_] is offline
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Default Help, the plants are going to the dogs.
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I have two medium size dogs and they both have a thing about tearing
up the potted plants. They have even gone after the tomatoes which are
in 2 ft. heigh planters. What can I do to keep them out of my plants?

One obvious thing is to keep the dogs away from the plants. Not knowing
anything about your plants, where you grow them or how you keep the dogs it
is impossible to guess what may be the best way. If you are looking for a
"magic" fix (along the lines of spray the plants with XYZ which is quite
harmless but keeps dogs at least 3 feet away) I think you are going to be
out of luck.

If physically preventing the dogs from getting to the plants isn't possible
or desirable this is becomes more a question about dog behaviour than
growing edible plants. Why not try a newsgroup related to that. I suspect
you will need to supply quite a bit more detail to allow somebody to work
out why your dogs do this and how to stop them.

David

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