No walk for you!

So the last three days have been an exercise in patience. I came home Sunday afternoon to find that the garden had been... well turned and fouraged through I guess is the best way to say it. She knew she had done the wrong thing because she was following me until she saw where I was headed. As soon as she saw I was walking toward the garden she turned around and went in the opposite direction. When I called her to come and have a look at the mess she had made - she crawled at ground level and would not come any closer than 2m. I proceeded to growl at her to get to bed, got her lead, showed it to her and angrily said "No walk"and felt my heart break as I saw hers do the same. Dogs are much like children I guess - while it tears you up inside to discipline them, their pathetic looks are verging on the ridiculous and it is all your willpower not to laugh at them at the same time.

The damage...

I managed to kind of rearrange the plantings and figured I had probably only really lost one or two seedlings and most would survive. After 24 hours of no walk and no attention you would think she would understand but no, she went back for more, same treatment and then 3rd day... same again. When I spoke to my sister she said she vaguely remembered seeing something on Dr. Harry about not planting a garden in front of your dog as their natural instinct tells them that you are burying something for them to find. I think come the 3rd day of fouraging for food has left me with the sugarsnap peas, two carrott seedlings, a beetroot and possibly a kale.

The problem...

I couldn't go on being angry with her and 3 days without a walk is no good for the situation. She is a kelpie so she doesn't do anything slowly, but she has slowly moped around the backyard for the last 3 days with her tail between her legs and I can stands no more! She's pretty but she is not the sharpest tool in the shed - so I figured I would starve to death before she learned the lesson. Enter chicken wire.

The solution (I hope).

Lets see how that goes. If she really wants to get in I am sure she will, lets hope she wants a walk more.

• Seasol watered into everything this week (yesterday).
• More sugarsnap peas planted.
• Silverbeet planted.
• Parsnip (hollow crown) planted.