Need to keep a dog out of flower bed

[bluemingidiot]

Thinking something maybe offensive to the olfactory.


Any suggestions?

[mollymckee]

Wee had a dog that loved to dig in the flower beds. I read that blood meal ( not bone meal) sprinkled around the garden would keep a dog from digging. I used it and it worked well.

[countrymom22]

A fence. Nothing else that we tried ever worked permanently. And having to reapply stuff every time it rains gets old.

[princessferf]

When I had a dog who dug in my garden beds, this was the only thing that deterred her:

I removed the layer of mulch from the top of the soil. I then laid down chicken wire on the soil (and used little stakes to hold it in place). I cut circles in the chicken wire my plants could still grow through the wire. Then I reapplied the mulch on top of the soil.

I did this in the spring before the bulk of my plants came up so I wasn't damaging the plants themselves.

It was a putzy process, but it worked. She tried digging but once she hit the wire she didn't like it at all. I've had the same wire in place now for about 5 years.

[aoconnor]

princessferf , that's a really cool idea! Thanks, I'm going to do that next spring in my own beds.

[princessferf]

Good luck! I hope it works for you!