GRASS LAWN REPAIR OR PET URINE GAPS IN THE LAWN
AN EASY REPAIR SOLUTION IS NOW AVAILABLE
The lawn repair sticks need not be covered by soil and need to be rolled. Their specific weight is high enough to anchor into the soil in the growing phase. More information on: Private house or garden owners as far as municipals, towns, villages or green care responsible companies know this problem very well: pet urine gaps in the lawn, mainly caused by dogs - the bigger the dog the bigger the gap and the bigger the necessary efforts to get the gap green again.
Main problem is the acidic pH value which does not allow that you simply spread out bare seed on the gaps and cover it with earth. If doing so then the bare seed comes direct into contact with the acidic ‚contaminated‘ soil and will mainly die very quickly and will not germinate.
Another up to now solution is to put first soil onto the gaps, then spread bare seed on it and then roll it to improve soil contact. Now the bare seed comes not into contact with the acidic soil below - but the first time a dog chooses the same place, and this is regularly the case, the new bare seed gets its direct acidic shower from the top: the result is the same and seed dies a hero’s death too. You can cover the new seed with an additional soil layer too, but doing this several times you will have step by step a hilly lawn, or you have to remove soil before seeding new every time.
In every of these above described (and experienced) solutions you have a lot of work and a very limited success. Since spring 2017 a complete new developed and very innovative product conquers the market in Europe: lawn repair sticks. These lawn repair sticks have not primarily been developed to solve the pet urine gaps but have proven to be perfectly suited for this application. Lawn repair sticks are built up as the following picture shows. are In embeddedevery stick in threea matrixto five materiallawn seedsof mainly clay and other soil equivalents and a very small portion of starch. The starch works like a glue to keep the stick together for the first days after having been spread out until germination oft he seeds has started. Then slowly the matrix is dissolving in the coming days and gives the seed way into the soil. This protected germination process makes it not possible to destroy seeds in the early germination phase. Seeds start to come into contact with the urine soaked soil much later when they are already in a growing phase. In this growing phase the pet‘s urine does not work anymore like a seed killer but more like a fertilizer.
These lawn repair sticks originally have been invented and developed to have an easy use convenient product which you need not to bring anymore under the soil. Lawn repair sticks are simply spread out onto the soil. Then watering these pellets brings the germination process to start. The concept for this really innovative product development is “no pre-work, no rework“in the sowing resp. the lawn repair process. Sticks are heavier than water, will not become birds feed or insects feed due to their matrix material - and the matrix material is complete ecologic, only made out of natural ingredients, no chemistry at all. The picture below shows that the pellets germinate and grow in the first important phase without needing anything from soil below - this effect fulfills for the pet urine gap repair perfectly all requirements to solve this problem.
The lawn repair sticks need not to be covered by soil and need to be rolled. Their specific weight is high enough to anchor into the soil in the growing phase.