I cannot cope anylonger with the mud.

[hercules1]

We have 2 dogs , one which is giant breed and my garden no longer exists. It is a mud pit and apart from a few patio slabs leads straight into the house and into the kitchen/dining room. We have mud everywhere in these rooms and cant let the dogs elsewhere in the house. THe mud goes on the cooker, work surfaces, everywhere. Constantly.

We've looked into doing various things to the garden but the only thing that I think would really deal with it is to patio the whole garden. My fear then is how easy it will be to resell in a couple of years time.

WHat do people do?

Thanks, looks interesting. I will show to dh tomorrow.

shameless bump

I was thinking of getting matting, but can't really work out if it is a good idea or not. The grass would take ages to grow, and we don't know when we'll be next moving. The mud drives me mad.

I think paving could be made into a selling point.

We've 2 golden retrievers (golden?? try brown/black at the moment). We had dreadful problems so we bought a shed and built a run with a slabbed base. Perfect for them to go and dry off and pad around in. They still come in to the house but when clean and dry!

I thought they wouldn't settle in the shed and would howl at being outside, but if they are left to choose the house or the shed, they'll opt for their shed.

I've also found it great to have somewhere they can go and get some peace. Eg: If we have lots of people and children at the house; they are away from being prodded by numerous fingers (which they don't like) and the children don't get knocked over by overly boisterous dogs.

I have got temporary mesh fence up at moment, fencing off the grass area giving it time to recover as was just pure mud few weeks ago. left path and small bit at top for her to widdle on.. seems to be working so far. she has broken in a couple of times but not for a week now.

We have now had builders in the garden for a week and will take till next wednesday to complete paving, brick walls, fencing, huge roof etc. But at the end hopefully no more mud (and us poorer!)

Okay too late you are already paving over....I expect it will look fine however.

We have landscape gardeners in currently digging massive gravel lined trenches and putting highly effective drainage in to avoid the 'swamp' effect.

In terms of containing mud within the house my dogs are put in holding area (I kid you not). They come in via back door into utility room where I leave them until their paws are dry before letting them get further into the house.

Funny this thread has popped back up, we are having our garden done in the next few weeks..unfortunately on a budget so only with some paving slabs and washed gravel but I am sure it will be lots better than the mud-pit with huge holes it resembles atm.

no dog but our back garden is completely paved with a very tiny border - I love it the kids can play in it 90% of the year lots of ride on toys, balls, hoops etc none of the dangers of slide or swings, plus regular trips to the park. It's low maintenance even got slate on my borders to reduce the weeding!