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jeffaroo
06-06-2015, 12:56 AM
Besides taking a bamboo cane across your dogs ass, how do you keep your dog from bothering your nanners? She chewed half way through my Saba pup today !

Lau
06-06-2015, 08:12 AM
I had the same problem. My dogs love the small banana pups. They step on the baby bananas, grab the young banana plants and shake and shred them. I had to put up a fence and separate them. :nanadrink:

a.hulva@coxinet.net
06-06-2015, 06:42 PM
I had the same problem. My dogs love the small banana pups. They step on the baby bananas, grab the young banana plants and shake and shred them. I had to put up a fence and separate them. :nanadrink:

Try putting three or four mothballs around each plant, especially close to pups. I use mothballs around all my bananas and flower beds. Works for squirrels and rabbits. My dog gives them a wide birth also. No effect on plants. Good luck!

barnetmill
06-07-2015, 08:06 AM
Try putting three or four mothballs around each plant, especially close to pups. I use mothballs around all my bananas and flower beds. Works for squirrels and rabbits. My dog gives them a wide birth also. No effect on plants. Good luck!
What I do not know is if mothballs derived components will end up in the bananas.
Older mothballs consisted primarily of naphthalene, but due to naphthalene's flammability, many modern mothball formulations instead use 1,4-dichlorobenzene, which may be somewhat less flammable. The latter chemical is also variously labeled as para-dichlorobenzene, p-dichlorobenzene, pDCB, or PDB, making it harder to identify unless all these synonyms are known to a potential purchaser. Both of these ingredients have the strong, pungent, sickly-sweet odor often associated with mothballs. Both naphthalene and 1,4-dichlorobenzene undergo sublimation, meaning that they evaporate from a solid state directly into a gas; this gas is toxic to moths and moth larvae.

Naphthalene and 1,4-dichlorobenzene should not be mixed, as they react chemically to produce a liquid which may cause damage to items being preserved.[1]

Due to the health risks of 1,4-dichlorobenzene, and flammability of naphthalene, other substances like camphor are sometimes used (though camphor has its own toxicity issues).

Lau
06-07-2015, 08:38 AM
I have also put the large tomato cages around the really small pups. It helps. It will stop the accidental tromping from the kids and dogs.

Dingo2001
06-08-2015, 08:45 AM
Fencing them off or caging them is probably your best bet. Be careful with mothballs as they are toxic if your dog eats them! Good luck!