Comments on: Dog Gardening Services

By: Jan K

Jan K — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:30:40 +0000

I moved all of my gardens to outside of the dog pen. We have a separate fenced in area for the vegetable garden, and for some reason the dogs get so excited when I go down there! They aren’t allowed in early in the season, when we’re waiting for seeds to sprout, but once everything is up they just love to come in and sniff around (with us only). I have raised beds so they mostly stay out of them. I used to tough it out when we only had Kobi and Maggie, but when three puppies came along all at once, it was more than my flower gardens could take! So we made a new one in another area. Having said all that, we are lucky that we have almost 2 acres of land, so we are able to do it all separately!

By: Bambi Boodlington

Bambi Boodlington — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:19:05 +0000

I’ve been gardening for my humans! Take a look at my blog to see how I’ve been lending a helpful paw! 🙂
bambiboodlington.blogspot.com
(Bambi Boodlington’s Dog Blog)

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 15:55:24 +0000

We have a pretty relaxed attitude towards gardening – if it lives, it stays. If it doesn’t, it just wasn’t meant to be. So that includes anything that dies of natural causes, our error or our terror (Bella).

We have very little lawn and what we do have has been torn to shreds by little Miss Speed Demon doing her best Indy 500 impression around the turns. We enjoy her running more than the lawn. Bella loves to dig as well but we try to direct her efforts to less obvious areas.

When all is said and done though, she’s really pretty good about the actual garden beds. Although I was showing off a particularly charming mini Hosta to some friends recently only to have Bella step right on it and break off most of the leaves. Oh well, it’ll grow back. 😉

By: Misaki

Misaki — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:18:21 +0000

haha our garden is a complete mess too, but mummy and daddy have given up caring 🙂

By: Greyhounds CAN Sit

Greyhounds CAN Sit — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:53:15 +0000

My lawn is total crap and I’d love to get it rotary hoed and start again but it’s huge so that won’t be happening … so I’m thinking of having a Greyhound party here. Watching the clods fly that just 2 GH’s tearing around the lawn produce I’d imagine about 10 of them would have the lawn ploughed up for me in about 5 minutes 🙂 I don’t do much weeding because the dogs like to eat a bit of grass quite often, not lawn grass though. What annoys me is that if do get out in the garden Frankie and Beryl just sleep inside. They’re not good company 🙁 I like some sort of company when I’m gardening, lol.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 05:18:07 +0000

I love how you’ve put a positive spin on the garden disaster! There’s a silver lining to everything! I don’t have a garden but I do grow potted veggies & flowers and each year the dog digs up the pots on the ground and the cats knock over the ones up high and they all feast on the tattered remains of whatever green is on the ground.

By: houndstooth

houndstooth — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:36:10 +0000

Our yard isn’t fenced in, so it’s not an issue here. Most of my “pretty” gardening is in the front where the yard wouldn’t be fenced anyway, and the back is more natural, so I think we’d be okay… I think…

By: dawn

dawn — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:44:37 +0000

I think my dogs do pretty well with the gardens in my backyard especially considering I live with 3 terriers. I try to keep the beds along the fence and then they have the whole middle of the yard for wrestling. Any plants I worry might not be able to handle being run over by dogs, goes in the front or sides of the house which are dog free territories. Plants in the backyard have to be able to stand up to puppy paws or they won’t survive. I’m not too into coddling my plants.

For the most part they don’t do too much damage to the vegetable garden, but I am planning to fence off that part of the yard, mostly because it’s an area where we can’t see the dogs when it’s dark out. They go back there and get busy sniffing and not hear me calling them. Then I have to trek down the yard in my pjs to make sure they are really back there and didn’t escape.

By: Flea

Flea — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:38:13 +0000

We have a large backyard. The dogs have plenty of room to romp and play. It’s the chickens who’ve destroyed the gardens. My Hunny is not so kindly disposed toward them as you are to dogs.

I was at the blog paws site and today’s topic is How to Handle Controversial Blog Topics. For some reason I thought of you immediately and popped over. 😉

By: Blueberry's human

Blueberry's human — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:50:02 +0000

Blueberry is not allowed in the garden unless I am in there with her. Otherwise she feels free to “pick” the veggies on her own. It’s just a small area of the yard – so the rest she is free to run around in. It’s really no fun having a garden anyway without dogs to make it entertaining and challenging at the same time. 😉