do be gentle with me for this daft post.
As some of you know i have a 12 week old gs .
From when we first got her she goes into the back garden for toileting.
I do pick it up practically straight away ,
the problem is with the ground being so soggy and muddy i see my once lovely green garden turning into a farmers field??
It might help that after this next week she can then be taken out but in the meantime any suggestions to get the garden back?

It'll recover in the summer :)

*Hollow laugh* Shut your eyes and imagine it! No, to be fair, you might get it back in the summer - maybe not this year, though ...

Welcome to the joys of dog ownership - green lawns frequently become a thing of the past, as so flowers in flower-beds - upright ones anyway, plants actually in the plant pots etc etc.

Ha Ha Sam
My once lovely garden resembles a ploughed field now :D

I looked at it the other day and thought, as a really keen gardener why did I get another shepherd pup?
Answer: Because the beauty of the garden is diminished without a shepherd to grace it!

I'm going to a get a load of grass seed, and chuck it into the ploughed bits (when the ground is a bit firmer) stamp it in and hope for the best!

Kat

I have about half an acre of garden which now has a nice tarmac area for the dogs to have all year round & the rest is grass which they have access to when it is not too wet

Therefore I now have a fairly nice garden with large holes/tunnels under the bushes :D & a tarmac area that is easy to pick up from & hose down which also has holes/tunnels under the bushes :D 

The one good thing is that you can't see the holes/tunnels & the dogs give themselves away after a session of excavations :D

Seven years ago we moved to this house that had a lovely vegetable garden, garden pond apple and plum trees, with roses round the garden gate, now we have a ploughed field the pond had to go as the Newfoundlands would not stay out of it, the boarders were wrecked by dog hurling themselves round the garden at 40 mph we have graters mud and a few tufts of grass here and there, but we sit and look at the old photo's it gives us pleasure.We will sort it out when the rain stops.

got a tip to put grass seed all over the garden in the spring, once seeded trample it into the ground????

Our garden now belongs to the dogs, it was the easiest thing to do!!!:d

Rox

Sam

this really made me grin from ear to ear as 12 months ago this was I asking these questions !!!!! A year on the garden did recover but alas one autumn & winter and an OES later and it is all churned up again!!

Jude

Well all i can do is look into my field and wonder just when i shall see the mole holes appear,[[[[[boohoo]]]]]
I studied all aspects of having a pup especially as we already have a 4 year old dog, but i didnt forsee the garden.
Mary Mary quite contary, how does your garden grow?
With puppy pooh and wee wee pools and dug up mud piles in a row.

I thought I could solve this one with a huge kennel and run for the short times I'm out - or for when we get back from a walk.
Sparky has finally settled into his run - it took a while - so I thought "Great! No more puddles or poo on the lawn". Hah. "Poo or wee in my nice clean run, Mum? You've got to be joking! I'll just cross my legs 'til you get home". :-D
Tracy

my garden looks a muddy mess too, any grass i do have left on the lawn is yellow from were Toby wee's on it, i have one big crater in the middle of the lawn and several other holes dotted about, grrrr good job i love him,
Heidi

haven't had a lawn for three years plus now got fed up of looking out onto a mud pit. So it went and in its place is slate :-)

Cordelia

Hi,

I had to smile when I read through these garden stories.  I have 2 Great Danes and my garden looks like a mud pit.  In an attempt to save the flowers I fenced the borders off. No point, they knocked the fence down, the flowers have been eaten, trampled, chewed and spat out.  Even our garden moles have packed up and moved home. It eventually dawned on me to fence off (big fence) part of the garden and gravel it. The dogs don't get into the mud at all and hopefully some grass seed will recover my lawn and some new plants will give the garden some colour. (who am I kidding!)  Some may not agree but the garden belongs to the dogs, give it up now!

We had the same problem with Jazz our solution was to get rid of the grass and replace it with gravel and decking  :)

Michelle :)