Yellow lawn

Eleanor5

Hello, I'm currently renting a propery which I move out of in about one months time. I gave two dogs and due to them peeing on the lawn, plus hot weather and the lack of rain we've had, parts of the lawn is yellow. My question is, what is the best way of making it green again in time for our leaving inspection? Is it simply a case of using a lawn feed and keeping the dogs off? Thanks in advance!

Dovefromabove

This stuff is advertised in the July edition of Gardener's World magazine  http://www.greengardener.co.uk/product.asp?id_pc=13&cat=25&id_product=501 

I have no idea whether it does what it says ...............

Good luck 

Netherfield

The urine has killed the grass,it's like using glyphosate,reseeding or patching with turf is the answer,if your dogs keep peeing on the lawn you should follow them with a watering can and dilute it.

Eleanor5

Thanks Netherfield, I will get some grass seed tomorrow. Thankfully they don't pee on the lawn very often, only in the morning after the foxes have been in marking their territory My neighbour tells me my biggest problem is that the grass has been scorched by the sun. I'll try the re-seeding and see how I get on

lesinnl

For future reference, re dog urine on lawns; some give the dog tomato ketchup / juice in their meal to counter the effect of the high nitrogen and other wastes in the urine, Dog Rocks in the water of your dog may also help.

However it looks like you have to repair the current lawn somewhat. 

 

 

Singing Gardener

You could always try the Brazilian World Cup approach and just paint the grass green 

nutcutlet

For a leaving inspection SG's suggestion sounds spot on

Dovefromabove

I think the stuff that I linked to is actually some sort of dye that the grass will absorb .............. 

Eleanor5

Haha, thanks everyone. I will try the seeds first then if it hasn't grown enough I may just try the stuff you linked to Dovefromabove