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Old 28-02-2010, 08:41 PM posted to rec.gardens
MICHELLE H. MICHELLE H. is offline
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Default Oily Water Turned Soil Gray!!!

Hi everyone,


Thanks for the responses, I really do appreciate it!! Someone asked me
if I "SCRUBBED the dish soap into the oil spot". No, when I used the
Dawn dish soap, I DIDN'T scrub it in. I just swept up all of the kitty
litter, and then put some Dawn dish soap over the oil spot, when it was
raining.


Also, I am not sure if the kitty litter is what turned the soil Grey,
because I used a bag of 'Johnny Cat" kitty litter which is White in
color.


But I will follow your suggestions and keep putting kitty litter there
to try to dry the oil spot up, so that when it rains, there is no more
"rainbow colored" water.


Hopefully I can just topdress the lawn with some compost or even organic
topsoil, when the weather warms up ( its in the 40's in my area ), and
reseed, and hopefully the grass will come back!?