Put nitrogen down on your old grass. The response will be incredible, within a day or two, your grass can be as green as new.
Bingo.......
If what you want is your old grass to match your new sod then put down fertilizer that is higher in N which is the first number in the 3 number analysis on the bag. N#-P#-K#. The first number if higher will grow the grass above the soil and gives you pretty darn fast results but you will mow a lot more. The P & K numbers help develop the grass below the soil line and makes it more tolerant of drought conditions by developing the roots and it does turn your grass bluish green but not near as quickly as applying Nitrogen.
The new sod is dark green because the turf farm that grew the sod have a fertilizer plan that makes the grass look very good when it comes in. It already has the N and they don't care so much about the roots because the roots get cut when they roll up your sod to bring it to ya.
The new sod is dark green because the turf farm that grew the sod have a fertilizer plan that makes the grass look very good when it comes in. It already has the N and they don't care so much about the roots because the roots get cut when they roll up your sod to bring it to ya.
so more than likely the sod will fade as the roots take hold and it gets mowed off a couple times?
Not to hijack the thread but I had a yard question and thought I would jump on this one and not start another:
My lab has burnt out part of my yard with her urine and we have started to give her the tablets to neutralize it. My question is what is the best way to get it back to green now?
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your sod will be the first thing that dries up in the summer so you cant just water it for two weeks if we dont get rain in the summer you will need to water it or it will be dead!! the roots are not as established as the old grass
Not to hijack the thread but I had a yard question and thought I would jump on this one and not start another:
My lab has burnt out part of my yard with her urine and we have started to give her the tablets to neutralize it. My question is what is the best way to get it back to green now?
you have two options in my opinion, spread lime on the areas to help neutralize the soil or my suggestions would be just to dig up the grass and a couple of inches of dirt and put new dirt down then sod or put grass seed. the dogs urines mess up the ph of the dirt and it will take sometime for it to balance out so you have to do something or wait for a few months and it should work itself out!
I just had part of my yard sodded yesterday where I replaced a sanitary pipe last fall. They did a nice job matching everything up except the color!
I'm assuming their grass is a little better taken care of than mine, it's a much darker shade of green. Will this fade over time? Would putting some type of fertilizer on the unsodded portion of my yard "dark-green" it up?
I probably should have done the whole yard, but I'm a cheap bastard... so factor that into your suggestions.
Edit: for clarity
The first thing that pops to mind is that you have different kinds of grasses. If you have 2 distinct area with different types of grasses, the color will be noticeably side-by-side. If they are the same grass, just throw down a little fertilizer everywhere and water it every day for a few days and it should all be a similar shade of green.
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