What about you! We've had a disaster - we've burnt The Lawn!
I'm gonna show you how we're going to fix it, and I'm going to show you an "after".
Stick around!
Welcome back. Now this is a lawn that we put in last year, and we have unfortunately had a petrol stain on it,
we've had a petrol stain on it, and we've had dog stains on it!
So I'm gonna show you exactly how we're gonna fix it, step by step,
and I'm going to show you an "after" - so make sure you stick around to watch that. So -
let's get on with that now.
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So. One of the burns we have on the lawn here, is this area here
and because it's green round the outside, I know that this is urine stains.
That's actually urea round the outside, coming from Bella there.
Urea is just a type of fertilizer.
Because it's so strong that's what's burned it.
So whenever we look at the other patches
you can tell which ones are the dog urine patches
and you can tell which ones are the petrol burns because the petrol burns aren't gonna have this green circle.
So these are my top five tips for dealing with dog urine stains on your lawn.
The first one would e to get rid of the dog - but obviously that's a bit of a joke quote!
Don't be - keep your dog!
I'm gonna talk about some other stuff now.
An easy tip would be to train your dog to go in the one place, out of the way.
Talk to a vet, find out if you can change the dog food
to something that . . . . whenever the dog pees on the lawn
the urea is gonna burn it
so if you can change the dog's food, then that can be a really good way
but always talk to a vet before you do that.
Other people have had success with Dog Rocks
You put them into the water, and over time that changes the Ph of the water.
Now it does take a few weeks to work.
I'll leave an Affiliated Link down in the Comments where you can pick those up from Amazon.
People have reported to me as well, that they have had success putting red sauce onto the dog food.
Now, if you have friends and family visiting, and if their dog causes damage to the lawn
an easy fix would be to follow it with a watering can any time it goes to the toilet
although that isn't really possible if you're on a long term basis.
This is going to be pretty basic guys - pick up the poop!
Whenever you leave it lying on the lawn, then it has a chance to do a bit of damage
so whenever the dog goes to the toilet, get it lifted right away.
So - easy one.
Just to show you some of the tools that we have to assist
we have a penknife, we have a pair of gloves, we have a spring rake, we have a drill with the augur attached to it.
We have some washing up liquid
a bit of grass seed
some screened topsoil and a fork.
So we have our dog urine, dog pee,
you can see the green round the outside, the green circular, you know that's the burn from the urine stain.
It's gonna be a bit easier to fix, so we're gonna show you how to do that now.
We're gonna rake all this grass out.
And then we're gonna put down some Fairy Liquid and water.
Now we're gonna put down some Fairy Liquid and water and then we're gonna sort it and seed it.
So we'll do that now.
So again we have another dog pee, a dog's urine stain. Here you can see the green round the outside.
So we're just going to rake that off now.
It's important whenever you're raking you really pull all that stuff out
we want to try and break up the surface as best we can . . . .
Now we're just going to take a fork and aerate that hole.
I'm gonna show you a cool tip. So today we're gonna be using some washing up liquid as a wetting agent.
This is a cheap wetting agent. Now you don't want to be using any washing up liquid all over your lawn
but for really localised spots you can get away with just using some sort of soap.
So soap just helps break up the surface tension of the water.
So that's really good. Whenever you have a urine stain, you might have some of it still hanging around in the soil
and we're gonna use this here to help break up the surface tension
and soak any of it that's in those holes down into the soil and out of the way.
So, you just need a wee squirt of this into the . . . .
Now to mix soil and seed is very easy.
If you put a couple of handfuls of grass seed in the bottom of your bucket
and then add in some soil.
And then some more seed
and mix it well through as you can see here.
Whenever you do it like this the seed grows really well.
So. We're just going to take this soil
and we're gonna throw it into the hole.
Next up, I'm going to show you how to repair fertilizer stains, or fertilizer burns,
oil stains and petrol stains on the lawn.
This burn mark we have here, just burnt through the middle, shape of it, it isn't round, there's no green growing round the outside of it
and it's an odd shape. Usually with urine or a pee stain, it's fairly round -
with this, it's just a funny sort of shape where it's been burnt in different places.
So this area here where we had some petrol spilled, it's not a solid, it's not a solid stain.
I think maybe we can just get away with forking this area. I'm gonna show you that.
Again, because there's no, there's no green round the outside and because there's just random stains there
that would sorta indicate to me that would be a petrol stain,
but by the same token, if you'd spilled some fertiliser it might just look like that.
So that's what we're gonna show you how to fix.
If there was ever a reason why you should switch from petrol over to battery - this is it! We do have a lot of battery stuff here, in the garden.
So for whatever reason, a petrol version was used, and this cap was loose and the petrol was spilling out everywhere.
So the petrol's caused a lot of damage to the lawn whenever we already had the battery kit here.
So, as I say, if there's ever any reason to switch to battery even just that one thing would be - no petrol stains in the lawn.
We did the pee stains, the dog pee stains, now we're gonna mover on to the stains from the petrol.
What you would do here would be the same thing if you had a fertilizer stain,
if you had put down too much fertilizer.
We actually need to - 'cause it'll be soaked down into the soil there - so we're gonna have to dig that out
and disturb the soil and then put the new soil in. So I'm going to show you that now.
So, we're just gonna take our knife and cut into that.
Now this step isn't absolutely necessary - but if you have a drill with an augur on it,
then this is gonna be really good, 'cause it's gonna help break up the soil in and around that burn, and if there's any of your fertilizer or your pollutant or whatever is in there
this is going to e really helpful to get rid of it. So. . . . . show you that now.
So you just want to firm that back down again. Of course, if you thought there was a lot of petrol in there
you could obviously take that out and take it away and replace it as well.
In this case, I don't think there's that much in there. I think I had it out of the core.
So then I just have my soil that we had from the urine stain - so we're just going to put that in there and thump it well in.
Whenever you're taking a hole out of the ground, especially during the summer,
you need to take out enough, that it's not going to dry out
so if you just put in a small hole there,
I'd always encourage you to put in a deeper hole and then it can hold a bit more water in there.
So. Just a wee tip for you!
So. We have this area here folks, and it's quite big.
I don't want to pull all this out
'cause then I'd be left with a gaping big hole in the lawn.
Now we could take some turf from the edge and bring it over here
but I don't think that's just necessary in this case.
So you can see the green in between and then we can see the dead patches.
If we just sort of scrape the dead off, and really aerate that ground
and let the air down in I think that might come back
without having to replace this big circle.
Because that would put a big hole in the lawn.
So you can see it's come back quite well. We have the grass coming back there nice, we have just been cutting it at the normal height
along with the rest of the lawn.
So you can see here where the grass is struggling, maybe it just hasn't had much water.
Again, a patch here completely taken.
You would hardly - you wouldn't even know
and again here you can see the fresh grass seed here.