I accidentally dumped a gallon of hydrogen peroxide on my lawn. It's the farm rated 35% type. It had a mountain of foam bubbles and was very hot. Earth worms were popping out of the ground and turning white before dying. I finally hosed it to dilute it.
Now I have a dead spot on the lawn, grass is all brown. Does anyone know if I can just loosen the dirt and reseed, or must I remove the dirt and replace it?
Thanks
Hydrogen peroxide decomposes quickly when dirty. It becomes oxygen and plain water during the bleaching action. Your peroxide was quite potent, but you can plant now.
Phisherman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Agree. Should be safe to plant almost as soon as the ground stopped burbling. Should be quite sterile then. Don't advertise having that explosive around in gallon quantities.
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:19:40 -0500, against all advice, something compelled snipped-for-privacy@invalid.com, to say:
You could dump an entire bag of Scott's Turf Builder on it . . .
Seriously, though, why don't you just reseed and see if it works. Seed is pretty cheap, and if it fails you can always go the remove and replace route.
Phisherman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Outlook for the worms is not good though.
Agreed, but neighbourhood worms in an adjacent overpopulated space will find a vacant plot pretty soon.
Kinda sad how few people grasp even the basics of chemistry, huh?
You'd think so wouldn't you? But, completely off topic, I used to have a whole lot of aquaria (I know, I would have usually wrote "aquariums" but I thought I'd cut off the spelling police on that one at least :) ). One summer day I awoke to a glorious rain shower and "oodles" (scientific term there) of eathworms on the driveway, sidewalk, street, evereywhere. I collected several hundred and over the course of a week or so few my fish well. That summer I had an amazing number of fish spawn, but the earthworm count in my lawn never seemed to be the same.
Curious that. I know that most of the worms I collected would never have made it back into the lawn and would have perished but it seems sort of odd that the population in the lawn dropped so severely.
Maybe thay just caught on to you and were too smart to be taken after your initial attack.
What do farmers use 35% peroxide for? Do they all like to be blond?
Remember to story of the farmer who built a rocket?
TDD
It's food grade - perfectly safe. It makes a sterilizing wash for food handling systems for milk, cheese, eggs, etc. I use it to clean stained pottery. People brush their teeth with it (diluted). There is a whole culture based on 35% food grade peroxide, as a quick search will show.
Now the 98% we had at work (NASA), that's rocket fuel. We moved a drum of it once and the bung was slightly open, as each drop spattered on the asphalt, a tiny burst of flame was observed.
DT wrote in news:20090706- snipped-for-privacy@DT.news.wowway.com:
it's an oxidizer. H2O2.
Is it available at the local level? I'd heard of it used for bleaching wood stains out, but the 3% solution they sell at CVS doesn't do much except remove organic matter.
The guys who play with rocket backpacks usually distill their own from lower concentrations they obtain on the open market. I doubt any regular Joe could buy the 98% stuff. Heck, I wouldn't even try. The more pure it is the more stable it is but golly it can be dangerous.
snipped-for-privacy@invalid.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Well, you said it became foamy and hot. The stuff we have in the lab has to be stored in an explosion-proof fridge, even the 10 ounce bottle.
"Hydrogen peroxide vapors can form sensitive contact explosives with hydrocarbons such as greases. Hazardous reactions ranging from ignition to explosion have been reported with alcohols, ketones, [etc.]."
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