Question
HI-
We live in mid Michigan and my husband recently put both 2-4-D on our lawn along with the chickweed/clover killer.  We have almost a half acre of lawn.  He has succeeded in killing about 60% of it.  I wouldn't be too worried except we getting ready to put our house on the market and the lawn looks horrible!
I called our local extension office and they said that now if not the time to reseed the lawn (b/c the grass is dormant).  
Do you have any suggestions?  Should we try putting the sugar treatment on our lawn? go ahead and reseed now?

I would really like to go 100% organic since 1)it is much healthier and 2)much more cost effective than the chemical route.
Thanks for any advice you can give me :)
kelly

Answer
Hi Kelly;
You have hose chemicals in your soil, and they killed the micro-organisms in the soil, along with most if not all of your lawn critters, so putting sugar on your lawn now will do nothing.
The sugar doesn't do anything but nourish the micro-organisms that enrich your soil.
Chemicals CAUSe problems, they don't cure them, but there is no point starting an organic program with soil full of chemicals. Anything you try to get going there will be killed off.
If it has been as much as 3 weeks, and if what you put is not the slow release type, and there has been a lot of rain, it is possible the chemicals has washed out.ing a couple of times would do it.
It's a shame, because if you had started the organic program in the spring at the first sign of greenup, you would have a beautiful lawn to show off.
Your grass is dormant in June in Michigan??????
That is rally a short growing season you have.

How about laying sod?
What is the weather there now?
June is summertime, and that is when it gets hot and stuff is growing like crazy. It shouldn't be dormant now.
Maybe he/she just doesn't know what they are talking about.
It is pretty late to sow seed, and expect it to establish well before time for it to go into dormance, but you should be able to lay sod, keep it watered so it can put down roots, and you should be able to get a presentable looking lawn soon.
Be sure to sprinkkle some good soil between the sod pieces, and a little on top, but leave blades sticking out just a little to get the sun. Depending on how close or how far apart you put the sod pieces, you should have coverage in a coule of months. If you lay them right together, and put a little dirt between and on top, and keep it watered well, you should have coverage in a few weeks.
If you washed out the soil and things casn live in it, you could start with the sugar, also put alfalfa meal and lava sand down, and that grass should take off.
Ask a nurseryman about it, dormant this early, anywhere in the US sounds not right to me.
Charlotte