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brooklyn1 · 01-06-2010, 09:11 PM posted to rec.gardens

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:46:51 -0400, (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??

If that 85 year old could afford a sod lawn he can afford to have a
landscaper repair it. Me, I'd rip up all the sod and turn it to
compost or maybe someone who wants it will take it away... then I'd
put down grass seed. A seeded lawn is always prefered except by those
who are too impatient and/or have more dollars than brain cells. Sod
lawns are instant but never actually root into the soil, sod lawns are
extremely susceptable to damage from all conditions that harm lawns
and sod is never recoverable, it's dead, remove it.