Question
My spouse recently applied a CIL weed killer (Total wipe out).  He forgot to read the label carefully to see that it was both weed and grass killer.  I know have about a 400 sq ft. area of dying grass.
Q1.  Can I save this area by raking hard the affected area and reseeding/fertilizing?  It would be less expensive and less time consuming, but will it grow back evenly?
Q2. If I choose to resod this whole area, is the soil going to be okay after I used this CIL product?
Q3.  Resodding, after removing old grass with flat-head shovel(?), do I need to re-till the soil before sodding as this was already a grass area or will raking the top couple of inches do?
Thank you for your time.

Answer
Hi Lee;
Most people would say, Well, READ THE LABEL!!!!
But I know from when I was using chemicals, that the labels are sometimes so wordy, and the most inportant things are often relegated to a nearly obscure, small space that is hard to get at and read.
Sometimes too, they just do NOt tll the truth.
I one applied a crabgrass killer that SAID on the label that it would NOT harm grass, but the St.Augustine and Burmuda that was in the place where I sprayed the crabgrass clumps, died out in a much larger circle than what I sprayed, and nothing BUT crabgrass would grow there for about 3 years.
Some of those treatments stay in the soil for years, some can be washed out by flooding the area and draining the poison down through the soil, past where it will harm the root system.
Trouble with that is, it can go down to tap roots of trees and kill them or make them very sick, and it goes into the water table.
You need to find out how long that particular product stays in the soil.
If it is one that can be flushed through the soil, watering heavy enough to wash it through, and you do this several times, you can probably reseed or put in sod , but if it is one that stays for years, you will have to replace the soil down to a safe level, and start all over.
I have no idea what would be a safe level.
Maybe, if you contact the manufacturer of the product they will advise you how to undo the damage done by their product.
There should be a phone number to contact them for information.
Sorry I can't help you more, but that is another strong argument for organics. If you put too much sugar on your lawn, it will do no damage except waste a little of your money, but it won't damage your grasses and plants.
Charlotte