sockiescat wrote:

hi everyone sorry i didnt introduce myself earlier im sockiescat and i
live on a farm in ontario canada.

i have a problem that hopefully someone might be able to help me with.
we redid a couple of flowerbeds this year with new shrubs and some
perennials.
the problem that we are now having is my sons dog (which we ended up
with lol) is now digging up those flowerbeds. its really getting to me
because she is a medium size dog and digs huge holes to lay in.
we have tried just about everything thinkable to try and stop her but
she just wont listen.
does anyone have any suggestions as to what we might be able to try to
stop the flowerbed digging dog. any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks for any info you can give us. take care,
sockiescat



Try laying a piece of concrete reinforcement wire or a cattle panel on
the ground in the bed and cover it with mulch. That should discourage
the dog very quickly when it tries to dig.

-Bob

sockiescat expounded:


hi everyone sorry i didnt introduce myself earlier im sockiescat and i
live on a farm in ontario canada.

i have a problem that hopefully someone might be able to help me with.
we redid a couple of flowerbeds this year with new shrubs and some
perennials.
the problem that we are now having is my sons dog (which we ended up
with lol) is now digging up those flowerbeds. its really getting to me
because she is a medium size dog and digs huge holes to lay in.
we have tried just about everything thinkable to try and stop her but
she just wont listen.
does anyone have any suggestions as to what we might be able to try to
stop the flowerbed digging dog. any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks for any info you can give us. take care,
sockiescat

Are you, by any chance, amending the soil with bone meal? Years ago
when my mother was a new gardener she tried to keep a rosebush by the
corner of the porch. Every time she put the thing in the ground the
dog would dig it up, and she just couldn't understand why - the dog
wasn't usually a digger. One of her friends had told her to use bone
meal as rose food. Finally my father figured it out G The rose
died, the dog stopped digging, and Mom stopped using bone meal while
the dog was alive.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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