Dogs will dig in almost any available dirt.
Dogs can learn to dig in flower beds, gardens and planters, ruining your gardening work and destroying your plants. The addition of objects or smells that dogs find unpleasant will discourage them from rummaging or digging in the plant pot, and if that does not work you can install garden mesh to keep them away from the pot entirely. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Soak five cotton balls in clove oil. Use a hand spade to scrape back 1 inch of soil from the soil surface in the planter. Place the cotton balls in the soil and cover them with the 1 inch of soil. Cut a piece of aluminum foil to fit inside your planter. Lower the aluminum foil over the soil and the cotton balls. Dogs will find the sound and feeling of touching the aluminum foil unpleasant, and even if they remove it, the smell of the cloves will discourage them from digging.
2. Use a hand spade to halfway bury pine cones on their side, so half is under the soil and half is visible. Bury enough pine cones in the planter so there are no blank spaces. The dogs will find the feeling of the pine cones unpleasant and will stop disturbing your planters.
3. Cut a piece of garden mesh so its length equals the radius of your planter. Lay the mesh on its side and push the side between the soil and the side of the planter. Use a garden spade to loosen the soil from the planter, if necessary. Continue pushing the mesh into the soil until it wraps all the way around the planter. This will keep dogs out of the planter, once they realize they cannot access the dirt or plant in the planter.
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