Anyone ever used K9 Yard Patch to win rid of sickly spots within the sward? www.k9yardpatch.com?Hate to spend $$? It says it "neutralizes" urine and the rest just give the impression...
It says it "neutralizes" urine and the rest just give the impression of being to grow grass only? Reg seed have not seemed to help.
Answers: i doubt it works. powerfully i do not mean it does not work, i do not actually know, it probably does in actual fact.
but the agent they say 'neutralizes' is likely to be a saline dissolver. and if it is, you can do that on your own. but anyway, you do not have to. all u hold to do is rinse the urine out with water.
to flush the urine out of the nouns u can use regular water because nitrogen is soluable in water<<it is the nitrogen within the urine that is causing the pallid spots/overfertilization.
It does take quite a bit of hose down. like if u want to flush a 1x1 cubic area of soil, next u have to use a 1x1 cubic area of hose.
when i said u can dissolve nitrogen salts on your own, i was thinking of sugar. Adding sugar to the river you flush with can help rinse away infirm bad salts which inhibit plant growth.
btw, why i said it is feasible to be a salt dissolver, because on their page of products they sell:
"Designed to repair the damages from de-icer or road side brackish or anything Spot may have done or continues to do!"
so if u wanted to buy their product, it is probable to be cheaper if u buy that form of it.
it is likely that their grass seed have a lot of filler in it. to be exact why they say you can just pour it on as is<<otherwise they would be recounting you to scatter it thinly. it will solitary be a certain percentage of seed.
when u buy grass kernel, it will have a certain percentage of TYPES of pip sometimes. <<that is even if it doesn't have a infallible percentage of filler. maybe use a type of seed that
match the type(s) f grass you already have growing.
to grow grass seed it wishes to be kept moist the whole time. if it dries out even once it is probably going to die. You can try using a cover to keep it moist. approaching soaked cardboard. maybe uncover it at darkness to re sprinkle the area and re wet the cardboard. i reflect on if u are in a summer like ours u will have need of two layers of cardboard or such to make sure the soil does not capture too hot. <<i might even try to elevate that second layer so the air get between them and keeps it unhot, especially if i was have a heat wave. <<i am awfully paranoid but my stuff always grows.
the darkness cannot be tolerated once the grass starts to come above ground. at that time u can switch to using a
moist white bedsheet for a couple of days.
Preparing the soil beforehand putting down the seed needs to be done. loosen it 6 -10 inches down. make a payment a bunch of crushed up leaves or compost or such to make the soil porous and loose and rich. like if ur hole is 8 inches open, you can add about 2 inches of porous stuff.
the grass nut will need a light covering of dirt on it. so liberate out a bucket of it to cover the seed with.
the cloak of dirt that you sprinkle over the seed needs to be indisputable shallow. so use nice fine dirt, like flour or sugar size grains.
here is a forum where on earth you can talk and ask about lawns:
http://www.lawncafe.com/forumindex.php
and a broad garden forum that has a subforum on lawns:
http://www.gardenstew.com/
ps - if the spots are not actually motionless yet, like if they be not brown yet, you might be able to gather it by flushing it very well beside water the way i described above. <<within this case i WOULD advise using sugar. first because it will support to dissolve things but also because it will feed the soil and the soil will feed the grass.
I don`t know sprinkle on enough white sugar to make it look similar to a light snow fall past you put the large volume of water through the soil. i am thinking a 1/2 cup per square foot of soil would be nice.
if u feed the soil right before wanting to germinate delicate seeds<<the soil is imagined to continue on it's eating spree and guzzle the seeds.
pps - another way to grow grass, cheap and will contest the stuff u already have>>you can dig up a clump and tear the roots adjectives to shreds and then those shreds will grow into grass. maybe treat it resembling seed to guarantee it grows well.
ppps - in the region of dogs. if take them first thing to a indisputable spot to let them pee, then they can cram to go to that spot themselves. like if u enjoy a strip of naked dirt where you want them to do it. U can try this near a dog that is already used to the yard<<it MIGHT work if they were house dogs. similar to before letting it outside, put it on a leash and walk it to the spot and stay within until it pees. do this every time. <<to train a puppy like this only take a few trips.