Just when you thought you were a lawn care pro, blemishes on your green grass appear. A common culprit to these brown spots or dead grass is a fungal lawn disease. Turf diseases tend to happen during ...
Plus, expert advice on how to address both issues. Pests cause visible damage like chewed grass and soil disruption, while diseases show up as discolored or fuzzy patches from fungi. Diagnosing the ...
Lawns are interesting things. Not commonplace until the middle part of the 20th century — at least not in the way we know them today — what seems from a distance as a pretty mundane and uniform thing ...
Learn how to identify the type of lawn fungus you’re dealing with, and the best ways to treat it. Those unsightly patches of brown and yellow forming in your lawn may not be your pet’s fault. They’re ...
In Delaware, turfgrass diseases are caused by pathogenic fungi and microbes that infect the leaves, stems, and roots of turf type grass plants. With infection, grasses may show symptoms such as leaf ...
Q: I live in Henderson where we enjoy having a lawn as part of our yard. It was thick and beautiful when we moved in, but it soon withered after we made some changes to sprinkler layouts and had the ...
Preventing fungal lawn diseases through proper watering practices is crucial, as treatment only suppresses the issue. Summer weeds are emerging, and prompt removal is recommended to prevent future ...
Summer patch, once known as frog-eye, is a lawn disease whose symptoms appear during summer. However, the root infections that cause the straw-colored patches to appear from mid-June into September ...
Gardening season has wrapped up, but you may still have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...
This was the summer of scorched Earth. The U.S. was hit with brutal heat waves that shattered records, practically melted us all and certainly did a number on our lawns. No matter how carefully you ...
Lawn with dry patches under trees in a large garden. - SingjaiStocker/Shutterstock Fungal diseases have a mind of their own. They can sneak up on the most carefully ...
What you are describing sounds very much like the lawn of a friend I visited last week. I noticed that his front lawn showed stunted growth and thin areas along with a yellowish appearance. Even from ...