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Some golf courses use a green dye (not paint) on their greens in the winter. Maybe you could call a local course and find out what they use and how they do it, or they might know what product and method to use even if they don't do it.
are the grass dye all one color, or are there different shades of green to choose from?
Go to the Amazon site and search for "grass dye". There are many colors to choose from. You might search for "green grass dye" if some shade of green is what you're looking for.
I cut a trail through wild vegetation that is 4-5' tall. The vegetation has never been disturbed before; completely naturally grown for ages. As the now-exposed "cross section" shows, the bottom of that 4-5' of vegetation is dead plants that are yellow, looks like mostly grass stalks; then green vegetation grows on top of those dead vegetation. The trail now looks yellow. My goal is to paint the yellow part green, so to make the trail a little more obscure from afar.
Don't do this. It will NOT look natural. It will look like you painted it green.
And that cut is not something you're just going to do once. You're going to be cutting that back for the rest of your life, or at least, the life of that trail. That's what cut trails through grass look like.
I cut a trail through wild vegetation that is 4-5' tall. The vegetation has never been disturbed before; completely naturally grown for ages. As the now-exposed "cross section" shows, the bottom of that 4-5' of vegetation is dead plants that are yellow, looks like mostly grass stalks; then green vegetation grows on top of those dead vegetation. The trail now looks yellow. My goal is to paint the yellow part green, so to make the trail a little more obscure from afar.
FWIW:
Once the sun reaches the soil- your trail would green up fast by itself as the whatever seeds there would start sprouting.
Just add water/rain
Every acre of soil contains pounds and pounds of dormant seeds of various plants.
As an example, they germinated crabgrass seeds which was 500 years old.
Your best long term spending of money - is to buy and add more grass seeds if that the look you are going for.
Nice turf type seeds may take 2-3 weeks to germinate, but if you buy cheap annual seeds - it takes 4-5 days for them to germinate and green up your trail but they won’t survive for the next year . By then hopefully you will have other plants grasses to grow well
Buy white (Dutch) clover seeds -they like warm soil to germinate - and have the benefit of helping pollinators and helps to feed the grass eventually when established.
They even have expensive micro-clover seeds - that you don’t even need to mow - very low growing
Dyes are poison, banned in many countries - why screw up Mother Nature and her tiny inhabitants even more than we already have??
I wouldn’t use any chemicals on your own land and especially wasting your own money
FWIW: Once the sun reaches the soil- your trail would green up fast by itself as the whatever seeds there would start sprouting.
Just add water/rain
Every acre of soil contains pounds and pounds of dormant seeds of various plants.
As an example, they germinated crabgrass seeds which was 500 years old.
Your best long term spending of money - is to buy and add more grass seeds if that the look you are going for.
Nice turf type seeds may take 2-3 weeks to germinate, but if you buy cheap annual seeds - it takes 4-5 days for them to germinate and green up your trail but they won’t survive for the next year . By then hopefully you will have other plants grasses to grow well
Buy white (Dutch) clover seeds -they like warm soil to germinate - and have the benefit of helping pollinators and helps to feed the grass eventually when established.
They even have expensive micro-clover seeds - that you don’t even need to mow - very low growing
Dyes are poison, banned in many countries - why screw up Mother Nature and her tiny inhabitants even more than we already have??
I wouldn’t use any chemicals on your own land and especially wasting your own money
This is exactly what I was coming here to say.
Put the spray can down, Op. Mother Nature has got this!
I'd invest on synthetic grass. Cheaper in long run and make sure you add a value on happiness seeing green manicured lawn all the time. That's gonna give a faster payback.
It would have been really helpful if you had put this information in your first post.
This is the OP's MO. They've done this in most every infantile thread they've dreamt up. <mod snip>
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