Re: CULT: Bone Meal & Dogs
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: CULT: Bone Meal & Dogs
- From: S* H* <h*@serc.si.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:14:45 -0600 (MDT)
At 21:41 6/10/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> Barb, Yes I do have dogs, 8 of them (!!). Only one that wanders freely
>> though, but I'm sure when the others are walked, they would not leave my
>> garden alone. So I guess Bone Meal is out. Since I don't have a compost
>> heap, or a horse or bunny, would you suggest that I just throw in a little
>> store bought manure when replanting to amend the soil??
> I have kept quiet on this subject but I am a big fan of bone meal. It
>is the only ammendment I used in my garden until this year when I added
>some alfalfa. First of all, I have a dog, a large dobe that loves a
>bone more than he loves me. "Ruler" gardens with me a lot of the time
>and has never shown an interest in the bone meal in the beds. There are
>2 Rottweilers immediately North, a Labrador to the South, and numerous
>strays about constantly. I have NEVER had a single rz dug up by a dog.
>Maybe I have just been lucky or maybe because I only use 1 T buried 2"
>under each rz they can not sniff it out. Either way bone meal has not
>created a problem here.
>--
>Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
>Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
>17.76"
>of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
>average
>of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
>
>
>Dana-- I,too, am an avid bone meal fan and I also have a Dobe. She has
never shown any interest in bone meal either. None of my dogs in the past
have nor any of my neigbors dogs. I say," Bone meal or nothin".
Sharyn Hedrick, Annapolis, Md.
