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Any way to deal with a salted yard?
John Corliss wrote:
They want to get back at you by vandalizing something they know you own. (snipped the rest of the stuff) I'm no novice to usenet, "Lawn Guy". I know when I'm being trolled. I don't waste my time "trolling". Your situation was interesting. I wanted to learn more about how your lawn came to be "salted". It is not a very ergonomic thing for anyone to do, especially young vandals who usually resort to more spur-of-the-moment forms of retribution and who want to be absolutely sure that you noticed the dammage. Salting turf may not always work and yield the desired results, and even when it works - you might attribute it to a natural cause and I'm sure that's not what they would have wanted you to think. Hence my questions about the type of salt (fine-grain table salt, or course road salt). If it was table salt, I can understand how it might have been hard to detect and remove. But coarse road salt (used to melt ice in the winter) would have more visible and could have easily been removed via shop vac. Removal (via vacuum, raking, etc) may no longer be an option to you, but if anyone in the future searches for "how to deal with salted yard" they may find that advice timely and useful. |
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Any way to deal with a salted yard?
"Lawn Guy" wrote in message ...
John Corliss wrote: They want to get back at you by vandalizing something they know you own. (snipped the rest of the stuff) I'm no novice to usenet, "Lawn Guy". I know when I'm being trolled. I don't waste my time "trolling". Your situation was interesting. I wanted to learn more about how your lawn came to be "salted". It is not a very ergonomic thing for anyone to do, especially young vandals who usually resort to more spur-of-the-moment forms of retribution and who want to be absolutely sure that you noticed the dammage. Salting turf may not always work and yield the desired results, and even when it works - you might attribute it to a natural cause and I'm sure that's not what they would have wanted you to think. Hence my questions about the type of salt (fine-grain table salt, or course road salt). If it was table salt, I can understand how it might have been hard to detect and remove. But coarse road salt (used to melt ice in the winter) would have more visible and could have easily been removed via shop vac. Removal (via vacuum, raking, etc) may no longer be an option to you, but if anyone in the future searches for "how to deal with salted yard" they may find that advice timely and useful. If they live in an area where water softeners are common. then they would have immediate access to a good quantity of rock salt. Either way, box stores sell it cheap. DP |
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When watering use a 'wetting agent' or if you dont have access to such stuff use washing up liquid as this breaks down the surface tension and the water is absorbed better rather than running off
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