How do I keep a dog from going into my flowerbeds and digging holes?

Instead of mulch, use landscaping lava rocks. It will also prevent any outdoor cats from using your flower beds as their litter box.

Hi Debbie

Is this a large dog or small dog? You could put up a fence just around your flower beds to keep the dog out. Or we put the dogs poop in the holes they are digging in and it's suppose to keep them from digging there.

chicken wire laid over surface covering soil, animals cannot dig thru it plants will grow up thru it or use pieces to go around any plants too large for the holes put mulch over it or more soil;teach your dog not to get in the flower beds;give your dog an area where it can dig, some breeds (Terriors ,Malamutes Retrievers,Huskies)are more likely/happy to dig/and need to dig-they can hear/smell some bugs or other creatures in ground that we do not know are there;if your dog(heavy thick coated breeds) is hot it may be trying to get cooled off in the wet soil of garden area so give it a cooler/wet/damp area somewhere else in yard to get in

Give the dog a different place to dig, that may solve the problem without having to do anything else.

I have a place, but she insists on my flower bed.

A couple of suggestions:

1. Put down black pepper where your dog digs-just sprinkle it, it will sneeze every time it digs there and then will quit.
2. This way is a bit gross...put some of your dog's poop where it dug and cover with soil, after a couple of time the dog will stop-hopefully. You could make a sand box area giving the dog a place to dig that is acceptable to you.