Fix yellow pee stains in lawn from Dog

8 years ago

I love my dog and as all dogs due he has to pee. With the snow melting and the weather getting warmer we are starting to see the yellow stains from out dog in the yard. Is there any way we can do to remove those stains?

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dchall_san_antonio
8 years ago
Believe it or not if you drop a handful of table sugar on the spot the grass will come back. I tried it many years ago and my grass went crazy. I had grass growing up tall and dark green in January. Apparently the sugar stimulates the microbes that normally decompose urine and cause them to reproduce. Once there are enough of those microbes, then they take care of the urine and turn it into fertilizer.
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Julian 6A
8 years ago
I'll second the above and throw this out there as well. This did actually work for my dogs. Irish Terrier and Shih Tzu

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dchall_san_antonio
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Wow! Ingenious way to sell paramagnetic basalt rocks.

The pH is not the problem with animal urine. The problem is too high a concentration of the nutrients in urine. When the population of microbes is sufficient, you won't get the burn. It could be that coming out of winter your microbes have simply not awoken yet. The sugar seems to cause them to awaken. It could be bacterial activity warms the soil enough to wake the rest of them up.
redwhtblu3
Original Author
8 years ago
So, I'm going to try the sugar thing.... how long before you saw improvement? Just so I can ensure it works... I don't want my entire lawn until I can make sure it works.
dchall_san_antonio
8 years ago
Organic solutions usually take a full 3 weeks to see the improvement. This is because it always involves the biology of the soil food web. The first microbes eat the sugar. The next level of microbes eats the byproducts of the first microbes. The next level eats the microbes and byproducts of previous microbes. This process goes on until you get the target microbes' population up.
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