My husband put fertilizer down on our grass and now we have......?

Question

brown spots EVERYWHERE! What do we need to do to get it green again? PLEASE HELP!
How soon can I put something else on it? THANKS!

ITS BEEN 2 WEEKS SINCE THIS HAD HAPPEND.

Answer 1

Brown spots after fertilization does not always mean over fertalization. Go to the edge of the a brown spot where the grass is green. Pull a blade and look at it. Does it have brown specks on it. If so you have a common summertime problem called brownpatch. This is a lawn disease. Sharpen and rinse your mower blade and keep up with regular fertilizer treatments. Your lawn will grow out of it when cooler tempatures come. The reason for the sharpening is that you need to cut your grass and not tear it. If the blade is dull and starts tearing the tips of the grass it takes longer for the grass to heal and the disease spread faster.

Answer 2

Try using a garden rake. Wherever you have a brown spot, use the rake to loosen the soil, and when you have moved the brown spots, put some grass seed down where the spots were. It will take a couple of weeks, but it should grow in where the spots were. The brown spots, are actually dead grass, just make sure you remove most of it..good luck..

Answer 3

It sounds like he burned it with too much fertilazer. It will come back eventually on its own (grow in from surrounding grass) But re-seeding is quicker. Water it well to be sure the fertilazer is not still too strong in that area.

The other possibility is bugs. Go and pull some of the dead grass with your fingers. If it is jst dead it should still be kindof hard to pull out and the roots will come out with some. If it is bugs it will pull easily and the bottom ends will appear cut from the roots (which will stay in the ground)

Answer 4

You probabily "burned" the turf with too much nitrogen or did not irrigate in time. In order to give a more complete answer more information is needed, ie:
A.) what type of grass
B.) which form of nitrogen you used (am.sulf., ureas, ammonia, MU, etc...)
C.) what part of the country your in.

for example here in Dallas, TX I'm still fertilizing my customers bermudagrass lawns with 7.33 lbas of 23=0-10 with 50% MU & 10%SCU per 1000 sq. ft. if they will water within 5 days; St. Augustine lawns with 5 lbs/1000 sq.ft. of the same blend if they will water within two days. Fescue i won't touch at all, buffalo grass I am waiting untill temp drops below 100 degrees, etc..

Answer 5

Basically the fertiziler killed those sections of grass by "burning" it chemically.

The easiest way to "burn" your grass is.

1. Apply in dead of heat
2. Apply and water too early
3. Apply too much
4. Apply the wrong "Seasonal" mixture.

If your lawn wasn't too bad at first you can let it gow and your grass will eventually re-grow in. You can always re-seed but unless you did the original seeding it is often difficult to match the grass types unless you hire someone who is experienced and knowledgeable in doing such.

Answer 6

Your husband burned out the lawn with the fertilizer which is very caustic.. He used too much fertilizer in certain areas (I assume he was using a drop spreader). You will need to dig up those areas and reseed. Sorry.

Answer 7

The other answers were correct. However, the next time he lays fertilizer, do it when the temperature is calm. Putting it down during extreme hot weather will cause it to burn quicker.

Answer 8

Maybe, just maybe, it's not the fertilizer.....Could be bugs!!

Answer 9

he killed it by overfertilizing it. it's dead. re-seed or sod it. very slight chance of bringing it back to life.

Answer 10

Dog??