Kneeza
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I know this can wind some people up.
However, after my old dog died three or so years ago, having not done a shred of damage to my immaculate lawn in his life, we got another dog (a couple of years later).
And this one's a bitch (apparently their urine is rather different from a dog's, and can kill grass). Oh yes, I can confirm that! After six months there was more dead grass than alive.
I did my best, scraping off the dead grass and soil, and re-soiling and seeding (with supposedly urine resistant grass). Utter waste of time, money, and energy.
Now, with the wet weather and her propensity to run around like a nutcase, the whole lawn is but a bog (it doesn't drain terribly well either, which doesn't help).
I'm proper fed up with it, to the point of seriously considering artificial grass.
As I said, I realise this divides opinion - and until a year ago I was a Real Grass Only evangelist - but I'd love to hear what others have done in similar situations, and how artificial grass has, or hasn't, worked for you.
(Yes, I fully understand the environmental impact, and no, I don't like that, but I'm kinda at my wits end. In mitigation I'd certainly keep a decent amount of soil beds and borders, plum trees, shrubs, bamboo hedge, the existing sleeper planting boxes, and the fair-sized pond).
However, after my old dog died three or so years ago, having not done a shred of damage to my immaculate lawn in his life, we got another dog (a couple of years later).
And this one's a bitch (apparently their urine is rather different from a dog's, and can kill grass). Oh yes, I can confirm that! After six months there was more dead grass than alive.
I did my best, scraping off the dead grass and soil, and re-soiling and seeding (with supposedly urine resistant grass). Utter waste of time, money, and energy.
Now, with the wet weather and her propensity to run around like a nutcase, the whole lawn is but a bog (it doesn't drain terribly well either, which doesn't help).
I'm proper fed up with it, to the point of seriously considering artificial grass.
As I said, I realise this divides opinion - and until a year ago I was a Real Grass Only evangelist - but I'd love to hear what others have done in similar situations, and how artificial grass has, or hasn't, worked for you.
(Yes, I fully understand the environmental impact, and no, I don't like that, but I'm kinda at my wits end. In mitigation I'd certainly keep a decent amount of soil beds and borders, plum trees, shrubs, bamboo hedge, the existing sleeper planting boxes, and the fair-sized pond).
