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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!
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..
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.
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.
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)
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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