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1. Homme David R

   
   6/24/2011 2:06 PM

   I have some pretty bad fertilizer burns from a recent application to rough/fwys. Aside from yelling and then firing, then yelling some more at the perps, what can I do?
   
   I know I can dig some out where it is very concentrated and for certain, dead. There are however places that look like the turf has a chance. Slim, but some possibility.
   
   Ideas being tossed around are: aerate, soak with water, topdress with straight organic.
   
   I'm inclined to believe I will lose these areas, but if anyone out there has had any success at reviving a spot that's only "mostly dead" I would appreciate the input. Thank you.
   
   Dave Homme
   The Falls Resort

   
   
   
   
2. Steven Huffstutler

   

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   6/24/2011 6:06 PM

   Topdressing with straight sand is the only thing I've ever seen work and even that will take time. Sod may be you best answer.
   
   Regards,
   
   Steve

   
   
   
   
3. Nowakowski Michael J

   
   6/25/2011 7:06 AM

   I'm with Steve. Have tried soaking the areas and topdressing but ultimately have had to sod or try to reseed once the fertilizer has leached through the profile somewhat.

   
   
   
   
4. Larry Allan

   

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   6/26/2011 6:06 AM

   Dave, smoked my fairways about a week ago but I couldn't fire anyone. I was the perp. Luckily it's been raining steady for a week and the tracking has healed
   
   Funny...you use the same fertilizer for 10 years, 19-3-19...same analysis, same setting, same bag, same rates on the bag except for two letters,old said MID...new said MIDPR, one might think MIDPR stands for MID PRill, but no it stands for MID PRemium which apparently means MINI, which when applied at the same settings applies 2 times the product. They told me this was done to give me a better product and save me money. In the future, if there is a future, I would hope they better explain my cost savings in the form of an accurate label
   
   If any of this rings true Dave, you may have fired the wrong individual.

   
   
   
   
5. Wahlin Scott B

   
   6/26/2011 8:06 AM

   Strictly a warm season grass guy here, but you guys must have some pretty whimpy grass to have it taken out with fertilizer. It take methyl bromide to kill mine and that does not work 100%. Anyway, I bought some fairway grade straight methylene urea for $905 per ton. I am thinking about storing another 10 tons. At that price and that analysis it is the same cost per pound of N at Ammonium sulfate.

   
   
   
   
6. Larry Allan

   

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   6/26/2011 9:06 AM

   Scotty, the difference is the grass's willingness to live.
   An ancient Floridian Scribe who had worked both the cool and the warm, told me in secret:
   "Bermuda grass wants to live...bent grass wants to die"
   
   No truer words ever spoken. (like I would know....I've never seen bermuda when it was anything but stone cold dormant)

   
   
   
   
7. Wahlin Scott B

   
   6/26/2011 11:06 AM

   I would probably choose to die to if I couldn't live in the tropics.

   
   
   
   
8. Jack Tripp

   

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   6/27/2011 3:06 PM

   Would some green paint help it look better if you can wait it out until it recovers?
   
   Green paint has made snow mold damage look better until the turf recovers.
   
   Jack Tripp
   La Crosse Country Club
   Onalaska, WI