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Fri, May 25, 12 at 23:45
We've adopted a senior rescue dog who is almost perfect except for her continued insistence in cutting across the garden from the front walkway. The spring vegetation is still quite short but I imagine that this will be a problem later on as things grow. A short decorative fence prevented this in the past with my other dog but I removed it when a couple of inattentive pedestrians tripped over the barrier.
But now, we have interspersed some garden "ball weed" stakes which gently sway and clang softly when brushed. Problem solved :)
I love Etsy...
  
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RE: Fence alternative in front garden
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| A net even a thread(appropriate high) may work. |
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| Looks like a nice dog...! My experience with dogs and the garden says 'don't fight the inevitable; put a path where the dogs regularly travel' - or they will make one for you! Dogs really do 'take the path of least resistance' so almost invariably will choose to use a path to cross the garden rather than to push their way through plants. Dogs are one of the reasons why our garden has an extensive network of paths! :-) |
Here is a link that might be useful: The dog pack
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| adrienne, would you please tell more about the garden "ball weed" stakes. Did you make them? Love the look - makes me think of verbena bonariensis. My 'liitle friends' could be given permission to relocate them around the garden if they're easily 'uprooted'. Rosie |
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| Thanks DO6 and Rosie. A net would work but her vision isn't very good and she would probably insist on walking into it. I found these seven bendable, slightly-swaying, thigh-high stakes attached to a single base with an anchoring post to plunge into the garden bed (or even a big pot) on Etsy. The motion catches her eye and if she tries to go through the five individual posts, she can feel and hear them. And if I want to, I can just pull them up and easily move them elsewhere. I just want to gently dissuade her from cutting across the flowers... Woody, you're a blogger! Cool. We've always had dogs too but having always lived in the country, this new, suburban yard is a learning experience. There are already "trails" in the big woodland-type garden in the back. But I so miss nearby brush where the dogs can do their business away from the house. Agh, I hate all the white spots in the lawn. Those scented posts that you can buy are expensive and seem to work only for a short while. At first, I would flush the dead turf, and reseed the grass, but I've given up now. It's like this old girl pees Round-up :) I've been lucky at least that, unlike my last dog, she doesn't like water and doesn't go swimming in the pond. |
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| Your grass is always green in your photos, Michelle. And you have Jack Russells that DON"T DIG. How in the world do you do that? |
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| my grass secret... it's not grass. It is just a robust melange of weeds, bermuda, oxalis, vetch, a few strings of fescue and dicondra that I mow. - don't look too close ! every now and then one of The Jacks decides to dig, this usually only happens a day or two before I have an open garden tour day. I've learned to stock up on extra tastey chewy treats in abundance just before open garden/ tour time and cross my fingers. ( have a small group from New Zealand coming on Monday.... so you know there is going to be digging ! ) |
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| adrienne - I don't blog.... Dogs are another one of my passions :-) and the dog photos are just on the site where I keep some of my garden photos. The more recent dog photos are in the album below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Dog Pack cont.
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