Brand new sod last year, nuked it with fertilizer this year š Can this be saved? Should we get a dethatching rake and then do some spot seeding, or do things like that have to wait until pre-fall? In upstate NY.
Oh man! I did this to my lawn last year and had to dethatch, topsoil, seed and put some hay down. I posted before and after photos on my profile.
The before photo of mine just looks like dirt but thatās after I raked all of the dead grass away.
Iād try watering the shit out of it if I were you and see if anything comes back. If not, youāll have to seed and water in the fall and aerate and overseed in the spring just to be safe. Sorry this happenedā¦Best of luck!
theuautumnwind
Good grief what did you fertilize with?
Ok_Advantage_224
What the hell did you use? Liquid nitrogen?
AtriumKarceri
Iād say ānukedā was correct. What the hell did you use? Looks like nitrogen was poured in back and just ran down. Geez
Novajesus
I’ve seen worse results using Roundup to kill weeds.
myCadi
You missed a spot.
Successful-Rate-1839
Did you forget to water it inā¦.
myjunksonfire
This looks like yellow bag weed and feed with the wrong spreader settings.
It’s dead now. It will need to be removed and and sod or seed.
magentayak
Try watering, but it looks toasted.
hughtoo22
Forget it till Sept. Then rake it out and reseed
Lennygracelove
My colleague in the emergency response unit loved to say “the solution to pollution is dilution”
It’s true.
Topwaterblitz47
Holy smokes what in the sam Dickens did you use!????
123-rit
More fertilizer!!! /s
cjk2793
Alright Iāll be kind here. Iām sorry this has happened to you. I got sod laid and it was expensive. I am still neurotic about it 2 months later. I canāt help you because I honestly have no clue what Iām really doing. But what can help the experts here from what Iāve read is:
– What type of grass is it?
– What kind of fertilizer did you use?
– What is your watering schedule?
Stupid_Floridian
How tha????????
What happened here? Iād try to put 100% of my focus into solving where exactly the problem occurred.
The yard in those areasā¦. Destination fucked.
mully58
It looks like the passes that were made were straight, until about mid photo going to the left side. I’m assuming fertilizer was falling pretty much straight down, because those passes are way too close to each other. Typically fertilizer shoots out about 2-3 paces for me or about 4-6 ft, depending on pellet size and speed.
When I do golf course greens, I pace out markers, so my lines are perfectly straight, which helps reduce overlap and misses. You should fert. at half the rate, twice over, perpendicular to the first direction.
If you haven’t yet, this needs lots of water. The fertilizer needs to be solubilized and pushed down through the soil. I’m assuming it’s an inorganic product. The good thing about that, here today, gone to Maui tomorrow (I’m in California).
I started my career in Western New York working on various golf courses. Overseeding now, isn’t out of the question. It just depends on the weather conditions. Not knowing where you are, and looking at central New York (Syracuse)forecast, the 10 day forecast doesn’t look too bad, for slinging some seed. It looks like there’s a few rain showers and what not, but you got to get that fertilizer moving down and out of the developing root zone. Also, watering it down and out, some of that burn didn’t kill the roots, so you might see some recovery here and there.
That’s my short, quick response on the matter.
Juan_Snoww
Iāve seen fertilizer get over applied and still didnāt burn lawns.. iāve only seen it kill grass like this when it gets spilled or something. Did you just open a hole in the fertilizer bag and spread it directly from the bag?
Mikeeberle
She’s dead Jim
Keep watering what you’ve got and keep an eye out for weeds. You get to lay all new seed in a couple months!
yumi365
Your grass has too much nitrogen in it. You can buy something to reduce the amount of nitrogen in it.
werther595
I would say water it all heavily to try to wash some fertilizer out, but all the rain we’ve had in NY should have taken care of that for you
Muted_Resident9361
Just water it and reseed in September bud.
Lurpe408
Reseed is your only path forward. Sorry bro!
xX-X-X-Xx
May I ask what you used and at what rate did you apply? How close were your passes?
Pali_Vali
This is why I spread out the fertilizer over 3 applications. I also work in a lot of Milorganite.
95castles
Deeeeep soak/neighborsā plants and trees will be happy š
it_is_impossible
Itās toast bro. What stinks too is youāre gonna get some healthy weeds in there before itās a great time to re-seed. At least itās not April?
After my first quite successful reseeding I started the next season with weed and feed but did not realized the CONTINUING need for water water more water so I moved some sprinklers for a couple days and hit each area for a few hours a couple times and swiped the dust off my hands. Toasted like 75-80% of the back half of my lot that doesnāt have irrigation and damn near lost the front as well but soaking it to hell for a bit saved me.
It happens. Dont feel bad itās just one summer of grass.
You can throw some seed down and try to keep it alive idk your climate up there but in Kansas youād be pissing into a strong hot wind trying that.
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What the fuck
Oh man! I did this to my lawn last year and had to dethatch, topsoil, seed and put some hay down. I posted before and after photos on my profile.
The before photo of mine just looks like dirt but thatās after I raked all of the dead grass away.
Iād try watering the shit out of it if I were you and see if anything comes back. If not, youāll have to seed and water in the fall and aerate and overseed in the spring just to be safe. Sorry this happenedā¦Best of luck!
Good grief what did you fertilize with?
What the hell did you use? Liquid nitrogen?
Iād say ānukedā was correct. What the hell did you use? Looks like nitrogen was poured in back and just ran down. Geez
I’ve seen worse results using Roundup to kill weeds.
You missed a spot.
Did you forget to water it inā¦.
This looks like yellow bag weed and feed with the wrong spreader settings.
It’s dead now. It will need to be removed and and sod or seed.
Try watering, but it looks toasted.
Forget it till Sept. Then rake it out and reseed
My colleague in the emergency response unit loved to say “the solution to pollution is dilution”
It’s true.
Holy smokes what in the sam Dickens did you use!????
More fertilizer!!! /s
Alright Iāll be kind here. Iām sorry this has happened to you. I got sod laid and it was expensive. I am still neurotic about it 2 months later. I canāt help you because I honestly have no clue what Iām really doing. But what can help the experts here from what Iāve read is:
– What type of grass is it?
– What kind of fertilizer did you use?
– What is your watering schedule?
How tha????????
What happened here? Iād try to put 100% of my focus into solving where exactly the problem occurred.
The yard in those areasā¦. Destination fucked.
It looks like the passes that were made were straight, until about mid photo going to the left side. I’m assuming fertilizer was falling pretty much straight down, because those passes are way too close to each other. Typically fertilizer shoots out about 2-3 paces for me or about 4-6 ft, depending on pellet size and speed.
When I do golf course greens, I pace out markers, so my lines are perfectly straight, which helps reduce overlap and misses. You should fert. at half the rate, twice over, perpendicular to the first direction.
If you haven’t yet, this needs lots of water. The fertilizer needs to be solubilized and pushed down through the soil. I’m assuming it’s an inorganic product. The good thing about that, here today, gone to Maui tomorrow (I’m in California).
I started my career in Western New York working on various golf courses. Overseeding now, isn’t out of the question. It just depends on the weather conditions. Not knowing where you are, and looking at central New York (Syracuse)forecast, the 10 day forecast doesn’t look too bad, for slinging some seed. It looks like there’s a few rain showers and what not, but you got to get that fertilizer moving down and out of the developing root zone. Also, watering it down and out, some of that burn didn’t kill the roots, so you might see some recovery here and there.
That’s my short, quick response on the matter.
Iāve seen fertilizer get over applied and still didnāt burn lawns.. iāve only seen it kill grass like this when it gets spilled or something. Did you just open a hole in the fertilizer bag and spread it directly from the bag?
She’s dead Jim
Keep watering what you’ve got and keep an eye out for weeds. You get to lay all new seed in a couple months!
Your grass has too much nitrogen in it. You can buy something to reduce the amount of nitrogen in it.
I would say water it all heavily to try to wash some fertilizer out, but all the rain we’ve had in NY should have taken care of that for you
Just water it and reseed in September bud.
Reseed is your only path forward. Sorry bro!
May I ask what you used and at what rate did you apply? How close were your passes?
This is why I spread out the fertilizer over 3 applications. I also work in a lot of Milorganite.
Deeeeep soak/neighborsā plants and trees will be happy š
Itās toast bro. What stinks too is youāre gonna get some healthy weeds in there before itās a great time to re-seed. At least itās not April?
After my first quite successful reseeding I started the next season with weed and feed but did not realized the CONTINUING need for water water more water so I moved some sprinklers for a couple days and hit each area for a few hours a couple times and swiped the dust off my hands. Toasted like 75-80% of the back half of my lot that doesnāt have irrigation and damn near lost the front as well but soaking it to hell for a bit saved me.
It happens. Dont feel bad itās just one summer of grass.
You can throw some seed down and try to keep it alive idk your climate up there but in Kansas youād be pissing into a strong hot wind trying that.
what did you use anyways? must be real good stuff
Ah yes the Punic treatment plan