Raised Bed - How to Deal with Dogs
Sean Hull
9 years ago
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Comments (33)It's really simple!! Go buy a 4 feet picket fence sections. Staple gun 1/2 to 1 inch 36 inch high galvanized fencing all around it. Rabbits can't get through there. You can also toss a 100 black eyed Susan seeds in some soil, water and the rabbits will eat them instead. You can plant a few full size black eyed Susan plants and they spread. No need to buy anymore. The rabbits eat the leaves and they grow in thicker. You can also make a surround of rose bushes and anything thorny so they can't try climbing over. Use you noggins, observe whatvrrally needs to be done and do it. Stop killing and trapping wildlife. They have young they'll leave behind to starve if you trap. Plus you need a permit. It's against the law to trap no remove any nursing wildlife. If you really want to block the rabbits you'd build the right enclosure to begin with. In the end spending the money for the fencing and flowers will save you time and money. It'll last for years. Then everyone's happy! Don't build a garden without protection and cry about the wildlife. They were here first. They can't read or know it's " your garden"....See MoreDog Poops In My Raised Bed Veg Garden - Now What?
Comments (14)It is a common question and there seem to be two distinct but extreme schools of thought on it. 1) ditch the whole garden or 2) just call it fertilizer. Often the schools of thought split along "where you live lines" of raised in suburbia or raised in the country. I'm country raised and recognize that all sorts of things go on in my gardens. Bottom line is that you have to do what you are comfortable with. But there actually is a middle ground. :) 1) remove as much of the dog poop as possible, 2) mulch the plants that have direct ground contact (they are the only real concern) with fresh soil, compost, straw, or whatever you have to mulch with, 3) understand that the majority of your plants have their own built in filtering system or you wouldn't be able to eat anything because of all the bacteria in the soil, 4) wash your garden produce well, and 5) rig up a little 1-2' fence to keep the dog out. Those little plastic stick-in-the-ground panels they sell are cheap and work well around raised beds. Enjoy your garden and the few years remaining with your good old dog. Dave...See MoreHow do you deal with neighbors' dogs?
Comments (75)I'm moving from the suburbs to a very rural area. My neighbor is friendly, but he doesn't see a problem with letting his dogs run loose. The cast of dog characters over there changes frequently, as they get hit on the road or 'disappear'. When he loses one, he just gets another one. For him, they seem to be disposable, but he's never without at least one. Lucky for us, so far the dogs have been people-friendly, but they have killed the neighbors own stock in the past. Mostly they aren't spayed/neutered, and I do not know if they have the required shots. As part time residents, we just tolerated the issue. Our own dog was always leashed or in the house, and we always scoop his droppings immediately. The part time stepping in the other dogs' poop and having all the deer and wildlife run off wasn't worth the argument. (While my neighbor is nice, he is a bit hot tempered, likes to drink, and likes to shoot things when he gets upset). Having him there is actually a benefit for home security, as I don't think any thieves would consider targeting my house. Also, he's here to stay; he's the 4th or 5th generation on an old family farm, so he's not going anywhere, and his way of life is firmly entrenched. Trying to set a good example with our dog didn't work. Now we'll be living there full time, and we'll just have to fence our place. We have indoor cats, and intend to have chickens, sheep and goats. We like dogs and don't want to hurt them. We have cameras and motion sensors, but we just want to keep problems from starting in the first place. We also don't want the expense of illness and vermin transmitted from his dogs to ours (we recently thought the dogs had fleas, but he told us he thinks his dogs have mange). So, until we have our fence, what are some good ways to deter these dogs? I have considered trying an air horn when I see them coming (but it would also be audible to all my neighbors, which could be good or could be bad). I have pepper spray, but I don't want to have the blinded dogs getting hit in the road out front. I like the paintball gun idea, but like I said, we're not interested in picking a fight with the neighbor, we just want his dogs to stay off our place. And for fence, the whole thing will be a real pain (and expense) for us. The area the dogs enter on is where vehicles come in, so gates are going to be an annoying necessity. I imagine the gates will also be vulnerable to entry by the dogs, if they aren't the right kind of gates. Also, the terrain is rough, uneven, and has a small creek running through it. It will be a job to keep them out. Any thoughts or ideas for me folks? Thanks very much!...See MoreHow to stop grass growing in my raised beds?
Comments (21)DH put in 3 raised beds for me 3 years ago. This is our third year and only minimal Bermuda grass coming through. Here is what he did. 1. Scalp the ground with the weed wacker down to dirt. 2. Lay down two layers of 10 year black weed blocker paper (water permeable). The bottom layer north to south and top layer east to west -and- he extended the paper about 3 inches outside the wood box. 3. Fill the beds (all 4x4) with potting mix and peat moss and all the old growing medium from our EarthBoxes. 4. During the summer and fall he regularly weed-wacks all around the raised beds to keep down any weeds in the area. The Bermuda grass has only rarely grown up thru the 10 inches of 'dirt' and I have no mulch around my okra, beans and squash. I plant collard greens in these same beds in fall and they stay until spring - still very, very few weeds. I credit the scalping DH does with weed-wacker for keeping the weeds from growing wild around the beds. I credit the weed-block paper for keeping the weeds almost completely out of the beds. DL...See Morecitytransplant(zone5)
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