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Old 06-20-2008, 01:00 PM
 
Location: PA
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Our lawn looks awful!

I guess we put down too much fertilizer, and now it's all burnt!

What will happen now? I keep watering it, in the hopes of resurrecting it, but I think I'm just wasting water.

Any tips on what to do would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Moon Over Palmettos
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Nothing really until next year. You might want to broadcast grass seed and water like crazy until it comes back. My husband did that to ours last summer, and it now only looks the way it's supposed to one year later. We did not do anything to remedy the situation, but it is painful looking at it, especially next to our neighbors' very lush lawns!
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:08 PM
 
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My h did the same to our nice pretty green grass the year he retired..He had never done any yard work before, and decided he could go it alone, despite all my years of experience and well intended advice advice..I very seldom fertilized it, and I told him it may be best to not medicate something that looks healthy.. It looks pretty again after two years..
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Albemarle, NC
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Plant an annual rye grass in the fall before the first frost. It'll stay green most of the winter in southern states. In the spring, overseed with whatever you want permanently. If you want a green lawn this year, buy a lot of krylon and set to painting it.
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Never fertilize your lawn. All it does is make the grass grow faster.

But in the meantime, if you're edging a flower border or find some otherwise errant (and desirable) grass growing somwhere, dig it up roots and all and plug it into the bare spots.
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Old 06-20-2008, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Des Moines, IA
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How did you do it? If you look at the grass and you can now see green coming up, that's just tip burn and it will go away after a mowing or two. If it's fried to the roots, you're going to have to seed/sod the area in the fall (doing it now in the heat wouldn't work out so great)
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Old 06-20-2008, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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Originally Posted by KristyLiz View Post
Our lawn looks awful!

I guess we put down too much fertilizer, and now it's all burnt!

What will happen now? I keep watering it, in the hopes of resurrecting it, but I think I'm just wasting water.

Any tips on what to do would be greatly appreciated.
What area of the country do you live, that may help in giving an accurate answer.
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Old 06-20-2008, 06:48 PM
 
Location: DFW
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I have found concrete to be the cureall for all lawns. Very seldom have a problem & the neighbors dog no longer poops in the grass.
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Old 06-22-2008, 02:03 AM
 
Location: PA
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I have found concrete to be the cureall for all lawns. Very seldom have a problem & the neighbors dog no longer poops in the grass.
LOL! What a great idea!

We are in PA.
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Old 06-22-2008, 04:55 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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One of my neighbors had a "professional" lawn care service take over his yard work. They did the spray type stuff that is supposed to make the grass green but kill all the weeds, etc.
It took three summers for the grass to turn green again.
They sued the lawn care service.
Water doesn't do anything for already dead grass roots except make the dead grass roots wet.
Hopefully your roots are still alive. If not you might have to reseed.
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