dog and foot tolerant

sschuettinger – posted 18 September 2003 11:05

What kind of turf is tolerant to bothfoot traffic and dog urine?

BTW, I reside in Northern Californiain the San Francisco Bay area…

thanks,–steve

redbird – posted 18 September 2003 12:46

Astroturf. Seriously, bermuda and zoysia are extremely wear tolerant regarding traffic, but nothing can hold up to dog urine. You have to decide – can you accept lots of dead areas in your lawn to have the convenience of just letting the dog out to go in the backyard – or do you want to:

a) Have a specified area (mulch, pea gravel bed) that you train the dog to go.)

or

b) Walk to dog on a regular schedule.

I walk my dog to a specified place on my property to go. I live with the 5″ in diameter dead spots that result when he has an excited accident while playing with my kids in the backyard – the front lawn is off limits to him.

Mike

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 21 September 2003 21:28

I always thought of San Francisco as being central California. It’s a day’s drive to Mexico and a day’s drive to Oregon. Could it be any more central?

In my case my best defense against my dog’s pee is keeping the soil microbes healthy with organic fertilizer. I use corn meal and I use it a LOT more frequently where my dog pees than elsewhere. I also use sugar if the grass seems to turn yellow (not brown). Sugar balances the carbon with the nitrogen from the urine. I use a heaping handful on each yellow spot.

seed – posted 22 September 2003 08:19

Is there anything that corn meal can’t be used for?

Phil

redbird – posted 23 September 2003 11:49

PLEEEEEEEEZE tell me cornmeal can regrow hair!Mike

ted – posted 25 September 2003 18:02

just use bluegrass or fescue- the bermudas or zoysia will definitely not grown in northern california!

JohnG – posted 22 October 2003 10:31

Have you tried any of the additives to put in your pet food to keep the urine from burning the grass? I am spending some money on a new lawn and was wondering if the dog-food additive actually works….

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 23 October 2003 09:00

Corn meal is not good for…hmmm, let me think about that.

Oh, it makes a horrible grass killer!! Seems to fertilize instead of kill.