Boring Gardening Musing with Some Terrierist Thrown In

[skwashy]

So, I have been asked to design a garden for some friends. These friends are MUCH better gardeners than I am (almost any gardener is better than I am) but they have 3 BIG dogs and a tiny yard. The dogs spend a lot of time in the yard. The dogs dig. The dogs use the yard for, well, hygienic purposes. What shall I do? I agreed to help and took a

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Digging

[gothchick_marie]

Germans dig holes in the sand at the beach of Scheveningen for the same purpose. It's quite a sight. Old ladies fall into the holes.

[auntysocial]

I like the idea of a sand pit for the dogs to dig in. Maybe that would prevent them from digging up the flowers. My late great pit bull Petey used to dig for the cool here in L.A., and only the deepest roots survived that pit bull energy.

I think it's pretty hard to break the spirit of any terrierist.