- Niko sunbathing at work – our UC Verde is coming out of dormancy woo hoo!
Remember when I posted awhile back wondering about the effects of dog pee on UC Verde (hey, just because we grow it doesn’t mean we run dog urine trials on it!)? Well I got a response from Will – a UC Verde and dog owner:
“We have ucverde buffalo grass in our backyard with a full time dog and dog pee will definitely kill/make the pee areas yellow. We water it 2x a day so it waters it down pretty well but there are two spots in my yard that were definitely killed by the dog’s pee. It might be water wise but it doesn’t know what to do with pee.”
So there it is folks…the dirty low down on dog pee. Just like most grasses, UC Verde isn’t feeling it either.
Oh well, I guess you can’t win them all…
***Update y’all! We recently had someone inform us on our facebook page that she really doesn’t have an issue with burn spots from her dog – who happens to be 75lbs – so I imagine it has a decent amount of pee! Maybe it all depends on the size of your lawn and the number of dogs you have…perhaps smaller yards get “hit” more often in the same spot than larger yards do? Well, it looks like the results are back to being inconclusive for now!***
If anything, it’s a bit more likely to burn with dog urine than Bermuda.
That’s what you get when you plant a grass that doesn’t need much fertilizer.
It could be the dog’s urine pH level. http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2013/11/11/dog-urine-ph.aspx
Thanks for the info!