+ Garden Border (Part 2 of Morgan vs. the Fence)

See part 1 here.

I might be jinxing it, but so far, the chicken wire is working to keep Morgan from digging holes under the wooden fence. However, it is not keeping her from digging holes in the garden beds next to the chicken wire (MY PLANTS!!!!!) and in other garden beds (MY PLAAAAAAANTS!!!!) and in the grass (Mud pits!).

So my question of "do we add garden border fencing now or in the spring?" was answered with YES DO IT NOW BEFORE ALL THE PLANTS ARE GONE FOREVER BECAUSE SHE DUG THEM ALL UP. (Also if you are wondering how this keeps happening, Morgan loves being outside and 95% of the time she's out there, she's not digging. But when she does dig a hole, she can do A LOT of damage in under a minute... she is a natural.)

So I got out a tape measure and really measured the garden borders. Not just the one on the right side  that's been her focus, but also the one next to the deck, the strip next to the patio, the bed between the driveway and the fence on the left.  Morgan is digging in all these spots. And when we have other doggies over for play dates, they tend to trample things so I think long term a low border fence as a physical reminder is ideal. Plus it will look nice.

I bought 3 packs of the pretty fencing I really like (each pack is 26 feet) and then a 12-pack of the significantly less pretty wire fence, for a grand total of 198 feet of low garden fencing. The pretty fencing will be used near the house - the gardens around the patio/deck, the right side going back towards the tree. The rest will be fenced off with the wire fence, which I'm hoping will blend into the plants in the spring more (because, well, it's ugly).

So here's what it looks like now. We're still using lots of physical pieces to protect things during this adjustment period. Hopefully by the time the plants come back in the spring, this will be a non-issue!

It's going to take time to train Morgan to stay away from the low fence. Obviously she can easily hop over it, but again it's meant to be a reminder of where she's not supposed to go. Plus it will make it harder to dig when there's less room to do it. I still have all the barriers up inside the fence to make it harder to move around.

The wire fence is almost impossible to get in a photo, which I guess is a good thing because it's also subtle in real life. All non-grassy areas are now blocked off.

Here you can see where fancy fence meets wire fence under the red bed tree.

Hopefully this works... otherwise I'm going to be very sad for all my dug up flowers.