Originally Posted by rubberfish
(Post 164072)
That one would work too. :) We've never bought any chemicals
for ours and it seems to break down and soak into the soil fast enough for our needs. You may need to look into how well it will work in a clay/soil situation like you've mentioned. |
Just dig a hole and try it out. :) Doesn't have
to be a huge pit or anything. We use a twenty liter pail. About five gallons in size. If in a few weeks you see that you need a field around it, dig around it and put in some sand and or small gravel and place the turf back on top of it. The field shouldn't have to be that big. It's just one dog. If it seems to be moving along to slow, and doesn't seem to be leaving the pail fast enough, just add some water to help it get runny. |
If your serious about this just build you a wire basket using the 1/4 inch square mesh wire and mount it out in the back of the yard somplace. Just cut out round peices for the end and tack the wire to it with a door hatch in it someplace and mount it on a stand so you can rotate the basket. Put a try under it to catch what falls out. Every week or so you just rotate the basket andit will break itself down into the best lawn fertilizer money can buy.
Rain will wash away small residue and what's left you just sprinkle around the lawn. You will be surprised at the lack of smell once you get this going and bugs can't do anything with it because it heats up and kills them off. Make it a project for the kids and throw vegi scraps in it also. You can buy the fancy version of these through any gardening supplier. It's just a composter. |
Thanks for your comments!
I already have a compost heap, but I don't want to add pet poop to it, since I use it in the food garden. Dogs are meat eaters and can have too many nasty things like e coli and salminella, that I don't want to chance being destroyed in the compost process. I think I'll bury a pail in the shrubbery bed along the fence and give it a try. :U: |
Sounds like you got a shitty dog. :tttt: I'd just blast the turds w/ a garden hose nozzle. "Free" fertilizer, green grass.
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Originally Posted by dmaxjenn
(Post 164040)
take them for walks let them poop along the way, in wooded areas you need not clean it up.
My dogs are little. Their poo stays in the yard. It dries up and disappears. Maybe the neighborhood dogs are getting rid of it for me. Who knows. It's a mystery.:U: |
I just leave mine to, my two big dogs own the backyard and between rain and mowing it doesn't last long anyway.
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Mowing, YUK. I used to hate hitting a land mine.
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