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HELP!  I have 2 raised beds made from sleepers in my back yard that i love and want to plant up.HELP! I have 2 raised beds made from sleepers in my back yard that i love and want to plant up. My problem: the dogs keep digging them out when my back is turned. I have stored old bricks around them to make them higher but look at the mess  Do you lovely people have any ideas how to stop them? Thankyou so much.  

Answer 1

Give your dog something more interesting to do

Answer 2

Put a layer of mesh/netting pinned under the top layer of brick

Answer 3

Build your dogs a sand pit as an outlet for their digging behaviour. Dont leave them outdoors unsupervised until using the sandpit for digging is established.  

Answer 4

Once you have planted them put a trellis lying down on it so they cant dig but the plants can grow through. I have done this to stop local cats pooing in garden

Answer 5

Teach the dogs not to?  

Answer 6

I shouldn’t laugh- have had dogs for over 30yrs, and gardening has been challenging to say the least. The 2 dogs I have now (12 & 7) have quietened down, but then I’ll find a patch they’ve been digging in! If you’re growing thing like salad stuff? radishes, lettuce, rocket etc, maybe you could have containers on benches. Even old washing up bowls, flower pots.  

Answer 7

Chicken wire over the soil, they hate that. You can plant through it and its easy to cut. Peg down a bit round edge.  

Answer 8

My raised bed in the front garden serves as a "Luxury Outdoor Cat Toilet" for Kaijú. Wee knob even makes eye contact when he poops  

Answer 9

I bought sweet pea netting and put it over mine. Plants flowers grew through it. It worked netting was really cheap too  

Answer 10

I have a husky. I'm using her old cage.  

Comments

That's my other sweetheart.  

Answer 11

I use bark chippings, I have 4 dogs and they only dig bare soil, they don’t dig in bark, I can’t explain why but might be worth a try

Answer 12

My dog does the same really gets on my nerves with it I could be out with him on the garden he does it I tell him no and little sod toddles of down garden and does I again lol

Answer 13

You could try what I use to keep cats out of my large raised beds. Fill with compost/soil. Soak small sticks, ( lollypop size ) in creosote. Stick them randomly in the soil with about half of the stick above soil level. I'd do it before you plant, so at least if it doesn't work, plants won't be ruined. Works very well for me and my 5 cats. They now associate the planters with a smell they don't like and I no longer have to resoak the sticks.  

Answer 14

Rig up some sort of cover with a wooden frame and some netting.