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They dig, they pee, they trample. How to garden when you love both dogs and plants
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This April 23, 2019, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows Maddie, a pitbull mix, standing in a vacant spot between plants in a Long Island, N.Y, garden. Dense garden-bed designs that don't allow for such unplanted patches discourage entry by plant-trampling dogs who enjoy running laps. - photo by Jessica Damiano via AP
If you’ve ever had a dog, you know they don’t exactly tiptoe through the tulips. I’m fortunate that none of mine ever had a penchant for digging holes, but my late pit bull, Maddie, used to run through my perennial beds like a weed whacker, leaving horizontal coneflowers and black-eyes Susans in her destructive path. Her bathroom breaks would also imprint an ever-expanding array of canine crop circles on the lawn.