What about you! And welcome to another Premier Lawns video. Today I'm gonna be talking
about dog pee in the garden and how to fix - and more importantly how
to stop it. So stick around . . . . .
so we have our patches here, and here, you can see dark green and then in the
middle it's all burnt. What happens whenever your dog pees it's just like a
a big blast of urea coming out, urea is a part of the fertilizer it's a
component that has nitrogen in it and whenever it comes whenever your dog
pees just in one place is too much and it just blasts all around, so this is
where you get the green, the dark green goes round it because that's fertiliser
and then in between it's just too much - and it burns it.
okay guys here's my tips for trying to minimise the dog pee.
Prevention is better than cure, so take the dog somewhere else to go to the
toilet. That, I know that's pretty obvious and not always practical!
Another tip is to give the dog more water, so as it pees more, and whenever
it pees, it's not getting that really concentrated blast in each spot. Another
tip that a lot of people do is to follow the dog round with the watering can,
and whenever the dog pees they'll put a bit of water over the pee and
then that helps sort of break it up. But again, I know that's not practical. Some
people have had success with dog rocks. You can buy them on Amazon I don't know
if they work or not but I'll put a link down in the description so check that out.
Lastly you can talk to a vet. Now, I'm not qualified to give you advice on your
dog, always talk to a vet and get some professional advice. But a lot of times
whenever people change the dog food that can really really help with the dog pee
problem. So let's get back to fixing the lawn.
I did a video a few weeks ago, Fixing Bare Patches in the soil. This is very
similar, apart from I'm going to show you another wee tip that I think you guys
will appreciate, it's just a wee green keeper tip. We have, we have the tools here
here - garden fork, rake, bucket, soil, seed, just gonna take our rake because we want
to try and break that surface up the best we can
Try and break that surface up
and then we're going to give it a fork to get air down in as well.
Like, you only need a wee drop of this.
You guys that don't know, Fairy Liquid is like a wetting agent. In green keeping we use a thing called "wetting agent".
It helps break up the surface, the water breaks down the surface tension of the
water. This is just plain water and a wee drop of Fairy Liquid. Now, I would
definitely say, don't use Fairy Liquid in your garden. Just for this
purposes its grand, definitely don't spray your whole garden with Fairy Liquid!
Your garden has a lot of bacteria and a lot of wild life, like worms and
everything else, and they're all really super important, and that's why we put on
the seaweed to try and encourage the wildlife and the bacteria. It's like a
little jungle under your lawn so whenever you use stuff like this then
you're gonna you're gonna destroy that habitat but just for this purpose there
might be some urea left in the soil we're going to use the Fairy Liquid just as a
as a very light wetting agent just on very localised areas. Don't need very
much, just need a we touch in here.
What this is gonna do it's gonna work like a wetting agent and hopefully break
down any of that urea that's still left in the soil.
This area here has been raked off, and
forked to make wee holes in it. I'm just gonna give it a good spray
and hopefully whenever that sees some water then it's gonna help break it down. So we don't
need loads, just a wee spray.
If you had some seaweed you could mix it up into this as well. It would really help.
We have the Fairy Liquid down, poured into each place where we're going,
squirt into each place where we're going. Gonna mix up some soil, we're gonna
put that out, and then I'm gonna give the lawn a feed.
I've covered this in other videos.
We're just going to use screened topsoil you can buy a bag of this for a fiver, it's
not . . . . this is just a bag of ordinary lawn seed
Handful in there. You don't want to use peat, you don't want to use sand for a
lot of different reasons. You don't want to use sand, 'cause sand's inert. Peat's no good
because whatever gets wet it takes a long time to dry
and whenever it dries out it's sometimes very hard to get wet. So we just use
use screened topsoil.
seed right up from the bottom,
so there's the consistency there you want.
You don't want too much seeds, and you want to have enough that it's gonna grow
so this is very effective if you're trying to get grass to grow. If you actually mix the
seed in in the bucket. Simple but effective.
it's gonna take a couple of handfuls throw it into each pile and then level it
off with a foot. You could use the back of a landscaping rake if you want to be
really fussy. and just stand it down. You don't want it too hard .
See, just up the level. You don't want it sitting, you don't want it sitting up.
Whenever that starts to grow and the lawnmower hits it, it's going to knock it out.
That's just nice and level there.
Right guys, welcome back! You see the lawn's come on really well. You can't see,
you can't see any scarmarks at all from the dog pee.
the fertiliser is kicking in, the lawn's nice and green now and any patches that
had any scars on them are now gone.
So, let's have a wee look.
New grass coming through.
Couple of other patches it's come back really well. Bella just
enjoying herself, it's been quite warm this week. So if you've enjoyed this video
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