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June 13th, 2015, 12:08 PM
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June 13th, 2015, 12:16 PM
#2
I greatly doubt that the problem you pictured is caused by dog urine.
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June 13th, 2015, 12:19 PM
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I'll have to try and get a few other pix when I get back from Saturday errands. Grass is a mess here. I went to get seed last year and was given a cup (like, borrow-a-cup-of-sugar-cup) at a time.
I dug up and reseeded the front postage stamp yard and it's having a devil of a time coming back because the plows pile snow there and the area gets way more heavy traffic than the back (heavy as in bulldozer heavy)
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June 13th, 2015, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by
Ludwig
I greatly doubt that the problem you pictured is caused by dog urine.
yeow, i kinda think you're prob'ly right.......
princess: grab a hand full of it and pull. if it comes out in a clump.....you might have a japanese beetle infestation....mac
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June 13th, 2015, 2:08 PM
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I'd guess grubs. Dig down a few inches, pull it out and see if you see any of them.
If so, buy a good insecticide and apply and water in. Aerate the lawn after a week or two and may grow back.
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June 13th, 2015, 3:17 PM
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Originally Posted by
CenTexDave
I'd guess grubs. Dig down a few inches, pull it out and see if you see any of them.
If so, buy a good insecticide and apply and water in. Aerate the lawn after a week or two and may grow back.
yep, that's my guess too. do you notice, Princess, any japanese battles flying around your outdoor lamps or lit windows at night?......now that we don't have diazinon any more they're doin' pretty well.....two other ways and gettin' rid of them are diameticious (or something like that) earth and/or nematodes.....but both are a lot more expensive than a good dose of sevin....( used my last bag of diazinon this spring and had to go to sevin. if anybody knows a better insecticide please let me know....mac
Last edited by mac; June 13th, 2015 at 3:20 PM.
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June 13th, 2015, 4:56 PM
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I've delt with dog urine killing the grass a few times in recent years, and it's never looked like that. Your dog has to pee in the exact same area for a few weeks in a row before you start seeing that. Your lawn has it too scattered and pronounced.
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June 13th, 2015, 6:23 PM
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That's grubs! Pull on the brown grass and if it comes up easy grubs are chewing the roots.
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June 13th, 2015, 6:43 PM
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Looks like grubs to me. My female dog pees all over our yard and it doesn't harm the grass a bit.
Use some Bayer grub killer on it. I have tried every other brands there is and on it, and the Bayer seems to really work well, as the chemicals in most are so diluted that they don't do much to actually kill anything.
Reseeding won't do any good as long as there are grub larvae anywhere in the area, as soon as the roots start they get eaten.
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June 13th, 2015, 10:44 PM
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If the brown spot have a green ring around the outside then they are most likely the result of dog urine. The nitrogen overload at the center causes the burn, but as the urine is diluted toward the periphery, it has a fertilizer effect. As one might expect, lawns are most susceptible to nitrogen burns when standard fertilizers are maximized in the lawn.
Lawn burn, when mild, will often repair itself over time, especially in the case of the warm-season turf grasses that spread by stolons and rhizomes. Dark green spots and taller grasses may remain for several weeks. Sodding can be a quick way to patch severely damaged individual areas that might otherwise be invaded by weeds.
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