Comments on: Gardening and dogs?

By: Alicia Kuennen

Alicia Kuennen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:17:22 +0000

Thanks very much for that! My mother recently harvested a garden full of tomatoes , and I find myself the proud owner of two or three buckets worth! Of course I couldnt eat them all, but I did find a website full of even more tomato recipes at this site. A website dedicated the topic!! Crazy what you can find on the internet these days!!

By: Marlin Mayher

Marlin Mayher — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:58:23 +0000

Having just discovered the joys of organic farming in our own garden, I have to say potato soup is our favourite of the month. I found a website dedicated to potato soup recipes, which is quite amazing when you think about it. There's a website for everything nowadays it appears!

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By: charles

charles — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:02:00 +0000

I never understood that one eithers. Dogs + Flowerbeds = Trouble!

By: millypeed

millypeed — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

I haven’t found the secret to a nice tidy garden and Labs as yet, I have one that’s a digger and the other one that runs like mad through the shrubs, I think they play hide and seek!
We did have a big pond at our old house and when the yellow Lab was a puppy she would hide in the shrubs watching the fish and then jump in, and go fishing. We’d hear a big plop, and there she’d be madly swimming around the pond trying to grab a fish, she was never able to get one, but it didn’t stop her trying.
I was thinking off doing another pond at our new house, but now I’ve got two Labs I think I’II leave it, they egg each other on and with two of them they may be more successful at fishing!

By: Yo LO! ©

Yo LO! © — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

LOL – I don’t know Cindy, but when you figure it out, please let me know! I go CRAZY trying to keep things planted in the backyard (The front is easy and MUCH more elaborate than the back!).

By: Cathy P

Cathy P — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

We had a malamute once that was so helpful in the vegetable garden when we planted potatoes that as fast as I put them in the ground, he went behind me and dug them all up! Then he looked to me for praise for the good job he had done. LOL He got the praise, and I ended up planting my potatoes at midnight while he slept from exhaustion from the days activities. We now have two diggers and our yard loods kinda funny. I’m considering not planting a veggie garden this year, but I love flowers and don’t really want to be without them. I’m not sure what we will do about it.

By: Beth A

Beth A — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

My Akita lives in a small backyard with a roommate who is always gardening. On the other hand, he’s never been much of a digger, and he has plenty of lawn and concrete to do all his playing and messes on. In that way, we just make sure that there are separate areas.

On the other hand, at my mom’s house, there are large grasses and plants, which both my akita and her own dog love to run through and bite off the tops of. She’s fine with it, as the plants were not purposefully put there, but the few plants she does adore, she has planted in very stable wooden planters which adourn the edge of the fence. She also has a few flowers in tall large pots.

For her, the plants that she loves stay in planters, along the edge of the fence where the dog doesn’t go, and for my backyard, we provide an extra area so that the dog doesn’t "need" to go to the garden.

Anyways, try to keep the garden out of your dog’s general path, and be sure to give the dogs plenty of walks so that their minds are occupied. You can leave some sprinklers on to either distract the dogs to another part of your yard, or spook them away from the scary garden area, depending on how your dogs react to sprinklers.

Good luck!

By: Bozema

Bozema — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

Our situation is a little different from most but some of it still applies. We have a yard next to a creek with large oak trees, so a fully fenced yard is not an option. So our dogs have a large fenced "run" area within the yard where they spend their outside time (unless they are in the yard with us present). We also incorporated a lot of native landscaping instead of formal beds, using sturdy native plants and shrubs that don’t get easily damaged from doggy play. So our yard looks very natural rather than formal. the more formal flower beds are reserved for the front yard, where the dogs don’t spend a lot of time. We also have a fairly small lawn area – just enough for us to sit on or play croquet and the dogs to have a wrestling match, but not a big mowing project each week. The rest of the yard is natural with stone or wood chip paths and natural landscaping. These approaches have made it less prone to doggie damage – and frankly when the dogs are out of their reserved area, they are either wrestling on the lawn or exploring the creek.

By the way, we gave up on vegetable gardening some time ago. One of my dogs thinks tomatoes are red balls that we grow just for her to play with.

By: moyer566

moyer566 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:10 +0000

A small fence worked as a boundary for my mother. He liked to lay in the freshly planted flowers. But the visual boundary helped him understand what line he wasn’t to cross