Lawn is my nemesis!!

[gardengoddess]

Have canna growing down pretty well, and most outdoor gardening is a pleasure..... I'm cursing grass though!! We have a small patch of lawn about 20 x 25 feet in front of our business that continually gets peed on by dogs.

Does anyone know what I can do to save this lawn? It's totally polka dotted with urine burns. We've been hosing it down daily hoping to dilute the urine, but with the daytime highs here it's just not enough.

I'm thinking of cementing it over but it is a nice place for the dogs to relieve themselves and just hoping someone is going to have a cure for me!

~GG~

 

[iGro4Me]

Ammonia and mothballs will keep the dogs off the lawn.....As far as "fixing" it goes, nothing short of exposing bare soil and replanting seed,ferts and some sort of cover until they sprout will work.

Hate to see ya cement it over.....20x25 will be a pretty penny and the dogs will miss it

 

[Yeti]

Plant a garden in it's place.

 

[1G12]

Put a small decorative fence around your lawn.

 

[resin_lung]

There are products out there that reduce a the acidity (or something) in dog urine. I've heard of putting some tomato paste (or something) in your dog food to fix the problem too. look into it first though. I'm too stoned to remember.LOL

 

[CANNACO-OP]

Plant a garden in it's place.

but if ya like the lawn, they do make some chem to treat it,

dnk where ya @

but they do make this "low grow, no mow" grass, supposed to be tolerant to piss also.

 

[gardengoddess]

Plant a garden in it's place.

Best choice for sure! Unfortunately, not an option.

This is commercial property that we rent for pet salon so we've just been trying to keep it looking decent while the clients can use it to relieve their dogs. Our own yard (with 3 dogs) never seems to have the same problem but it's a lot larger.

It was not easy to convince the property owner to lease to a pet related business and we're trying to make sure they never regret their decision.

The cement is my last choice, there's enough cement in this world already but was option put to me by realtor.

Maybe we'll go ahead and rip this grass up and replace it with a more tolerant strain. Was hoping someone here had the perfect answer.... knowing how we all like it green. Thanks for the answers guys! ~GG~

 

[NightVision]

You can make sure the rest of the lawn is fed lots of nitrogen so the spots don't stick out as much. Usually the spots stick out so much because the rest of the lawn is not the same shade of green or the spots grow much faster than the rest of the lawn, both can be minimalized by making sure the rest of the lawn is fed at or near the same amount as the dog spots.

You don't want to feed the lawn its maximum nutrient capacity because then when the dogs pea on the lawn you will have dead spots where the dogs pea.

You can also put something on it that dogs don't like to smell, maybe like those moth ball crystals.