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16-05-2003, 06:20 PM

(MIchelle) wrote:

I'm a new homeowner and pretty inexperienced with gardening. At the
beginning of Spring when my lawn was overrun with dandelions and
weeds, I ran out to Kmart and bought a 50lb bag of weed n feed. I
stupidly didn't read the instructions figuring I couldn't do much hard
because it was a "feed". Well, I was definitely wrong. I "spread" it
with a cup and dumped a whole cup on areas of large weeds. Well,
needless to say, and much to my horror, have many large patches of
brown dead grass!!! It just looks horrible!

At this point, is there anything at all I can do aside from digging up
the many dead patches and re-seeding?

You have "nitrogen burn". Water THOROUGHLY to wash that crud
DEEP under the roots and wait it out.

Chalk it up to experience: too much fertilizer, too much
herbicide = dead grass.

Tsu

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