Mud that used to be grass- solutions

I have an area of mud (used to be grass - its to small to be a lawn) it is used only as a toilet by the dogs and at the moment and with them being bitches there is just no chance of it recovering unless I keep them off all together. Which would be nie on impossible.

I am planning on digging the grass/mud out and considered gravel/stones and chippings but the difficulty of trying to clean up after them.
Makes me think I need a "solid" substance like block paving/slabs.

I will be interested to hear what you use?

Karen

our back garden has paving slabs boring but easy to hose down

Thats the same problem we had with our garden, so we layed a paved area and had a gravel section.

This is a pic of when it was finished a couple of years ago, The dogs were also trained to do their business only on the graveled area. Which they picked up very quickly

Hi do you not find it difficult to pick it up on gravel?

Its my main concern I'd rather only do it once so whatever I do I want it to be right.
This is what I am dealing with (the lawn yes it used to be lawn went from being 50ft wide x 80ft long but has been cut down to this approx 20ft x 10ft)with the dogs
Before it became mud - it will come back this year but don't fancy it now

You do get the odd piece of gravel but its a lot easier to clean