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February 28, 2025

They dig, they pee, they trample. How to garden when you love both dogs and plants

By JESSICA DAMIANO
Associated Press

Photo by Jeff Miller [enlarge]
Dense garden-bed designs that don't allow for such unplanted patches discourage entry by plant-trampling dogs.

If you've ever had a dog, you know they don't exactly tiptoe through the tulips. I'm fortunate that none of mine ever had a penchant for digging holes, but my late pit bull, Maddie, used to run through my perennial beds like a weed whacker, leaving horizontal coneflowers and black-eyes Susans in her destructive path.


 
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