Naughty dog!!!!

moments_of_sanity

My naughty 14 month old border collie has tonight dug up all my strawberry plants!! Most of the vegetables/fruit plants I leave in the greenhouse as he digs up everything, but due to the extreme warm weather we have had the last couple of days I decided to put them outside................took my eye off him for about a minute whilst I watered everything in the greenhouse............................................and he has pulled everything out of the strawberry bag they were growing in!!!

Does anyone know if places are still selling them as I would really like to replace them if possible?

matt987106

could you just put them back in ? ? ? even if he has dug them up, the roots should / might still be intact

Farway

As above, when my labrador dug up & chewed a Japanese azalea it was just replanted, and flowered far better than it ever had. Possibly a bit of canine pruning was helpful

Aria`s_Tail

Just put them back in, strawbs are pretty resilient.
I have 2 greyhounds and one of them has a thing for eating leaves off chili plants (and 2 whole scotch bonnet seedlings 2 years in a row.) Thankfully now we have moved house the plants are on the bedroom windows sills and out of bounds! Might get some scotch bonnets fruits this year.

moments_of_sanity

thanks for your replies. Unfortunately he ate the roots as well :mad:

I was away the weekend and the dogs were left in the capable hands (or so I thought) of my eldest DD...........he ate the holly tree and my peonie!!!!!

I put a small acer in the holly tree pot and he pulled that up this evening so I have put rather decorative canes and string around the pot in the hope that it will stop him - well a girl can live in hope can't she?

LilMissEmmylou

I can empathise - I know if I let our boarder anywhere near our fruit or veg on her own she would have a field day eating and digging!!

For this very reason we have all out veg planted in pots at the top of our drive (long driveway) rather than in the back garden where she plays.

Good luck replacing the strawbs x