Diagnose and fix common lawn problems – patchy or bare spots, dog urine damage, and reviving a lawn that’s taken a battering over winter.
Key takeaway: Dog urine kills grass through concentrated nitrogen, not acidity, so the fastest real fix is dilution: soak the spot with about three times the volume of urine within … Read more
Key takeaway: The shape of a brown patch and how fast it spreads tell you more than the colour does. A small, sharply circular dead ring is almost always dog … Read more
Key takeaway: Watering will bring back dormant grass, but not dead grass. Pull a few blades gently: if they resist and the base still looks green or white rather than … Read more
A peer-reviewed Purdue University study found common weed-and-feed herbicides in the urine of dogs from 76% of households after a lawn application, with residues persisting on the grass for at least 48 hours. Read more
Fix a patchy lawn for good: diagnose the real cause with a quick lookup table, then rake, level and repair bare spots, dead patches and thin turf by grass type. Read more
