Originally Posted by
Mitch's mom
We have a dog yard. It is fenced and runs 15 feet wide by 50 feet long. It turned into a mud hole with 4 dogs using it. I gave up on grass long ago because the yard is very shaded for their comfort. My solution, which has worked great for the last 3 years, is pine chips from Tractor Supply. 2 bales will do their entire yard for less than 10.00. When the chips get funky looking we rake them up and put them in the burn pile ( I can't compost them because of the dog doo) in the summer months I mix in 1 bale of cedar chips to 1 bale of pine to keep the fleas away. We change the chips on average 3 times a year.
Think I might look into those pine chips as well! The fenced back yard is only used by the dogs so it's quite the mud hole as well. And we have a VERY large pine tree so we have shade and acid issues re grass. Read no grass. Our 2 yo male lab just romps in the gardens and 'prunes' my lilac and rose bushes for me. The price we pay for the unconditional love we get from them.