What's up friends? How you doing? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back again with another podcast for you. Today we're taking another question from a reader

Caz so she says how do I repair burnt patches in my lawn that are caused by my dogs urinating?

Or I guess dogs urinating. Maybe they're not Kase's dogs. Maybe there's some annoying neighborhood dog

with a rude owner. I've definitely seen some of those myself.

So she says, background, it takes about a year for the area to be naturally

receptive to re-seowing or planting, wateringing, digging out and replacing soil and using turf patches have all

failed. Thanks for the great topics and insights, Cass. Well, thank you for that, Cass, and hopefully I can answer your question. I was going to suggest

a lot of the things that you said, watering, digging out, replacing soil using turf patches, but you said those don't work.

So here is sort of the basic technique

that I would go through, and I'm sorry if this

is not helpful for you, if you've tried some of these, but this is the only thing I know to work

really well for fixing a dead patch in a lawn and this will apply to many

different types of reasons why your lawn would die. So not just dog urine, but animals or

fertilizer damage or fungal diseases or anything like that. Well the first thing

you're going to want to do is of course take out any of the dead turf. So clear it all out, try to try to get all the

roots out as well because those are also going to impede the new growth. So make sure that you do that. These

grass seeds, almost all of them are going to do best when they are rooted in

direct soil with not a lot of other grass matter around them.

So you're going to loosen the soil next step.

So scratch the surface, dig it and loosen it to maybe the top two, three inches or so.

If your soil is bad, which it will be, especially for your particular situation,

I would add compost. I would actually add compost as if you were growing a vegetable garden. I would compost that section and work that into the soil as well.

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