Lawn Disease Treatment

Lawn disease treatment following diagnosis by an expert can help you maintain a healthy, green lawn. High humidity, moisture, stress conditions and certain grass varieties can create favorable conditions for problematic fungi growth that results in lawn disease. Every lawn disease treatment recommended by your lawn specialist are based on analysis of the type of grass in your landscape and your growing environment. For example, SavaLawn treats sunny areas different from shaded areas because they have unique requirements. Some of the most common lawn diseases include leaf spot, red thread, dollar spot and patch disease. Red thread, leaf spot and dollar spot are all foliar lawn diseases, and the surest timing for effective lawn disease treatments is to wait until your specialist begins to see symptoms. We recommend that you choose a lawn maintenance program that treats patch lawn diseases preventively.

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Lawn Maintenance

Maintenance for lawn diseases is often a season-long endeavor. When a lawn disease application is applied to your turf, the protected part of the plant is removed as the blades grow and are mown off. Thus, multiple lawn disease treatments may be required throughout the season, depending on the lawn disease, the weather, and your tolerance for brown areas caused by the lawn disease. The longevity of a protective lawn disease application in the home lawn environment depends on the variety of grass in your landscape, weather and other conditions specific to your property. Unfortunately, the pathogens are never totally eradicated from the lawn. Diseases can lay dormant in the thatch or in the plants waiting for the right conditions to become active. Your lawn maintenance consultant will work with you to develop a program that integrates carefully targeted treatments for specific areas where undesirable weeds, crabgrass, damaging insects and lawn diseases exist. In order to develop turf that is more competitive against lawn disease, your program may also include a balance of specially formulated nutrients and slow-release fertilizers.

Common Lawn Diseases

Lawn disease control requires extensive knowledge and experience with the conditions specific to your region. Leaf spot occurs predominantly in the spring when there is a lot of succulent new growth that doesn’t have the chance to harden off. Treatment for leaf spot lawn disease may be required every 2–3 weeks to gain control.  Should this disease persist, slice seeding new grass varieties into your lawn is recommended to reduce the percentage of grass types that are susceptible to this lawn disease.

Red thread can be a season long problem, from March to November. This lawn disease is most prevalent when the weather is damp or humid.

Dollar Spot is most common on bentgrass, but it affects all cool season turf grasses. Environmental conditions favoring dollar spot lawn disease are warm days and cool-warm nights with high humidity or prolonged dew. It can generally be thought of as a summer lawn disease, occurring primarily from June to September.

Patch disease infection doesn’t become obvious until the plants go into stress, normally in June or July from the summer heat and reduced rain. Your patch lawn disease treatment is preventative and covers both summer patch and brown patch conditions in your lawn.

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