The Mystery Square

[Karen]

It could be the cement, as it is deteriorating, is leaching chemicals into the ground, and because it has been so wet this season, the chemicals it is leaching have finally reached the roots. I am guessing that square has a different pH than surrounding areas.

[Lady's Human]

Concrete is very basic. (Basic as in pH, not basic as in simple)

Once it starts breaking down, the lime could leach out and burn the grass roots, killing the grass.

[pomtzu]

Concrete is very basic. (Basic as in pH, not basic as in simple)

Once it starts breaking down, the lime could leach out and burn the grass roots, killing the grass.

Well - I"lllll beeeeee - that sounds like a ding dang good old explanation to me!!!!

Shucks -- now I won't have no reason no how, to sit in that there window seat in my bedroom, and look out at that square, and wait for that thingy that the little green people ride in, to hover there with it's a-winkin and a-blinkin bright and shiny lights. Dang.............

[Randi]

Let's hope that a dead body isn't buried in that cement block - sorry, I just finished a John Grisham book... "The Client".