Question
We have an older female dog that pee'd outscide all winter and some in Spring. I noticed that the spots that she pee'd in were yellow. After doing some research I figured that she can't pee out in the lawn anymore because it was killing my lawn. This is my first house and lawn. I tried to use need seedlings (Scotts) but it seems to be doing nothing. The patches are yellow and the grass is dead. Help!!!! What can I do???

Juan

Answer
Hi Juan;
First get off those darned chemicals. they CAUSE problems, they don't solve them.
The chemicals kill all the beneficial microbes, nematodes and critters that enrich your lawn and feed on the bad insects you don't want.
The chemicals wear out, and the harmful insects etc come back and get a goods foothold in your lawn. By the time the beneficial ones come back, you apply more chemicals, and start the vicious sycle over again.
The reason the dog urine causes grass to die is a concentration of acids.
Watering well enough to wash the acid through past the roots, will stop the killing of the lawn.
You can add things, naturally to raise the PH level of your soil to a more alkalyn soil, that will help prevent to kill.
The reason female dog urine does more damage than male dog urine is because males spot in many places in the lawn, marking their territory. Females expell all the urine in one place.
You could make a place especially for her to do her business, and fill that area with sand. ?Teach her to go there, by taking her out on a leash to that place, until she pees, and poops, and then praise her like she is a queen.
Pick up all the feces and water the lawn well. Take her to "HER" place, and let her go there, and then just throw a praising fit, like she is the most wonderful, smartest dog in the world.
Keep telling her, "This is YOUR place!!!"
she will do all her business there, and you will have one small area to clean up, and won't have to worry about where you step in the back yard.
You can help where the grass has been killed by flooding the area to wash ut the acid.
Read my answers on organics.
Going with organics is so much easier, so much cheaper, and you get so much better results.
I have been on a totally organic program for about 9 or 10 years, and I have NO weeds, no insect problems, a thick, lush lawn of St. Augustine grass, beautiful roses and shrubs, and I get to enjoy my lawn now, rather than working myself to death the way I did for over 40 years, before I learned about organics.
I will be very happy to explain anything about my lawn program to you anytime, just write me with your questins.
Charlotte