I have started to slack on my outside flower beds. Okay, not really started, it’s been more of an ongoing issue for the past 6 months. I have 4 flowerbeds in total. In one of them, I have to do hardly anything. Huge lilies are planted that take up the whole side of our house. The other three are in a sad state. LT has claimed two of them, I had some azalea plants that were thriving, a feat that I never thought I would manage. They have now been dug up and replaced with a ball and other various dog toys that LT has stashed away.
I planted bulbs in another of the beds, but eventually the weeds were more than I can handle. Then summer came and everything dried up. I’ve heard watering plants helps. I could say I was trying to conserve water, but really, I just never went out and sprayed them down.
Now that the weather is a little cooler, nice 70-80 degree days instead of 90-100, I hope to spend a little more time outside and repair the sad state of affairs. Anyone know any good ways to keep a dog from digging up flowerbeds? I don’t really want to do a fence around them because a) LT would just step or jump over it, and b) I think it would look ugly. Have any suggestions for good (pet friendly) ways to keep weeds away?
You might try searching the gardenweb forums. There is so much information there.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/