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Interesting.

This year Mrs.Fish moved the eggplant to the strawberry spot, and vice versa.
The strawberries failed bigly, but the eggplants were a bumper crop of some seriously awesome beauties.

Also, the dogs love to eat the cherry tomatoes, which did ok in the garden this year, but where the dogs poop in the watermelon patch, we have crazy amount of the best flavored, thick, amazing amounts of the little guys.  The dogs are better farmers than us.

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And the current wisdom is to NOT use dog poop (or any poop from animals that eat meat) in your compost, which I understand but have always questioned.  Indeed, the way it was set up to work, does actually work, and kind of nice to see, isn't it?

It is. Mother nature always finds a way.

This summer we grew a huge squash vine in the front yard in a decorative planting bed, again, not because we put it there, but I'm guessing because one of the dogs left some seeds in a present for us.

And as an aside, I'm not too concerned about the "fertilizer". After seeing how most of the third world suppliers of produce run their operations, I have to laugh about worrying about one of our dogs.

Yep.  Your dogs probably eat better than some of those farm laborers in those countries.

Certainly.  However the wisdom USED to be that manure from any meat eating animal (including meat based pet foods) would draw rats to the compost, and that was the main reason we were all warned off of dog manure as additions to the compost pile some years back.   A lot of people have ignored that warning for years, and I have always thought ignoring it was smart.

I should put here that proper composting will kill almost anything.  Almost.

I will say, though, that a lot of people don't manage their compost well.   They just dump it out there, maybe turn it once a year, maybe, and basically let it rot.  People get busy.  You can take your kid to soccer, or turn your compost pile, what are you gonna do?  Compost maintenance always loses.

So letting it rot actually works over the long haul, but if you're going to add borderline stuff (meat or meat-based products) to the pile, it definitely introduces a whole nuther factor.

I had not seen the dog compost kits.  That's very interesting.