Lawn Care with Dogs

How to deal with damaged lawns

With two dogs on your property, having a perfect lawn is virtually impossible! Dogs need plenty of exercise and love running and rolling on lawns. The reality is that there is a trade-off between enjoying your dogs and enjoying your lawn. Possibly longer walks outside your property on a daily basis might help reduce the amount of time they spend on your lawn and reduce the damage. 

Key tips for repairing dog-damaged-lawns

• When it comes to repairing the patches, we recommend you  leave any lawn work until the soil warms up eg: from late September/early October. If the area is small, use Daltons Premium Lawn Patching Gold, which has everything you need in one bag - lawn soil, seed and fertiliser. Remove the affected grass and soil and at least 15cm beyond it and add Daltons Premium Lawn Patching Gold to the area. Level it out and then water gently.
• If the area is larger, you will need to resow the lawn. Apply Daltons Premium Lawn Soil to a depth of 3cm over the entire area and rake gently. Sprinkle the seed on the surface of the soil in an even pattern, walking away from the starting point so you are not standing on the seed, and water gently.
• Seeing as dogs need plenty of exercise and love running and rolling on lawns, you could try divide your lawn into separate areas with the most highly visible area being fenced off from your dogs and/or rotate the areas in which the dogs can play.