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Tomato Garden Mistakes (My dog won't be getting BER)

12 years ago

Hi All -

This year, in addition to planting in my regular backyard fenced off gardening area, I planted a Sungold right next to the kitchen door in a large decorative clay container in the dog run. I always also throw a handful of bone meal in every planting hole to help prevent blossom end rot, et al.

Well, this morning I went outside only to find I now have a bare root Sungold and a half empty planter with all of the bone meal and a good deal of soil now in my dogs stomach. Hmmmmm, 'bone' 'meal' dogs - Duh !

Any of you done anything similarly stupid ?

Will and the Furry Ones

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sweetquietplace
12 years ago
Hah! I used fish fertilizer one time and bears pulled up every plant in the garden.
jeffwul
12 years ago
Ha! I have the same issue. I use Tomato Tone and that stuff is like catnip for dogs.
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suncitylinda
12 years ago
Dogs really go for organic ferts. They are convinced there's a bone in there somewhere!
sunnibel7 Md 7
12 years ago
I hate it when dogs get BER. ;)

Dogs love organic fertilizers for sure, but they don't even have to have bone or fish or blood in them. My dog loves to snarfle up anything poop based. Especially chicken poo, though horse is also favorite. Thus one of many reasons we have a strict "no dogs in the garden" policy. Also no dogs in the compost heap.

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