On 6/1/2010 1:46 PM, MICHELLE H. wrote:
The problem with that is, the homeowners that threw the rock salt on the
guys lawn, are long gone, because their house was foreclosed on a few
months back, and put up for public auction, so right now the house is
currently vacant, and who knows where the other neighbors moved to??


Plus, I don't think the guy would want to sue them. He is 85 years old,
and keeps to himself. He never has anyone come over to visit him or help
him, so I usually ask him if he wants help mowing his grass or raking
his leaves or shoveling his snow, but he always refuses and wants to do
it himself.


But when I talked to him yesterday, when I was wishing him a "Nice
Memorial Day", he says that he doesn't know what to do or how to fix the
"rock salt burnt grass".


I think that "Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss" may help neaturalize the
soil, but I am not 100% positive about that??


Like Bill who putters says, salt needs to be washed out. I've spilled
fertilizer and once it took a couple of years before grass fully came back.

I also suspect neighbors used rock salt or sodium chloride rather than
calcium chloride:

http://lawncare.about.com/od/lawncar...a/Ice_melt.htm

Really bad snows and stores run out of recommended snow melters and sell
regular salt which is hard on concrete and plants. Your friend should
at least tell the neighbors to be more careful in the future.