A very cute but extremely annoying problem!
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Just started reading all of the other posts on the same type of thing! I'll hopefully find something but, in the meantime, please excuse the laziness!!!  |
| Hmmm, I have a dear friend in the UK with similar problem........and after 3 years the little girl is still an "anti-gardener." Wonder if it's the same blood lines???
Anyway, try fencing off the portions you want to save......hopefully she won't dig up the fence. Try scattering dog feces around the plants you don't want dug up...they don't like to dig in their own dirt. I had one just nose it aside. Try scattering orange peel or other citrus peel about...hopefully yours doesn't eat the stuff. Other home repellents: mix dish liquid soap with cayenne pepper and Tobasco or other hot sauce then spray on the soil. It might burn the plants (the soap). Horse owners use this to stob cribbing. Scatter shavings from odiferous soaps, moth balls (not if the gardener is eating or mouthing the plants). There are repellents on the market for spraying either on plants or around the soil. Sometimes it works for rabbits or deer, don't know about sheepdogs. I'd say go to container gardening, but Marian also digs up container plants. In the end it may be fencing the dog away from the garden. Around here, I gave the garden to the dogs. Over 200 rose bushes disappeared...giant sheepie gophers, some with tails. It is embarassing as I'm a horticulturist, but I could create another garden elsewhere, out of dog's reach (most times). Finally, avoid using smelly things in the garden such as blood meal, incomplete compost which might still have "edibles", etc. sheepieboss |
| The grassy area of my yard is fenced off from the patio. In the grassy area I have a 6' x 40' garden that is fenced off with 2' high 2"x4" welded wire held up with pieces of 1/2" reinforcing rods about every 6'. Barney is not a jumper. When he plays in the yard, especially with the dog along the fenced rear property line, he does not go into the garden. The fencing cost very little and can be bought in rolls of various lengts and widths up to 6'. The 2' height is high enough to keep the dog out, yet low enough to step over to care for the garden. You could use wooden stakes if rods are not available. |
| As someone who now has a stick protruding from the bare earth where once there was the start of a lilac bush, I really shouldn't be allowed to comment.
I have no advice to offer, just looking for some too, has anyone had any success with chicken wire? I was thinking about surrounding the rose bushes and the hydrangeas with a little circle of chicken wire to deter the casual nibble, any experience with this and are there dangers I haven't thought of? My husband said it last year, "it's gonna be either the sheepie or the garden", so it looks like I will have a brown stumpy back yard, but a very happy OES. Up. |
When we only had Flash we had a beautiful backyard, roses, etc. Now with 4 we have sheepie paradise, the roses are long gone along with almost everything else. We did put a small fence around what we could save. My front yard is wonderful, the lawn looks like a fairway, trees actually grow, we water the flowers instead of them being peed on.  I have happy dogs so I guess that's the tradeoff. |
| Chicken wire cages work well, if the doggie doesn't dig. Then again we have laid chicken wire on the ground and covered it with mulch, that worked. IF you are only going to plant the garden once, that is no transplanting, dividing perennials, etc, then planting then carpeting with chicken wire...the whole garden or good portion....works well.
In one area I have the professional grade landscape weed barrier fabric and if generously overlapped at the seams and well anchored with additional pins and covered with a mulch, that too works well. Lo be if they find an seam. |
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