If you are noticing some symptoms in yard it is important to first recollect if you sprayed the lawn with anything, if your watering schedule or mowing
is off, or other simple fixes. If things have been going according to schedule and there isn’t anything out of the ordinary in your lawn care routine, it may be time to consider that your lawn may be suffering from a disease.
A few important things to keep in mind to prevent your lawn from developing a patch disease are to properly take care of thatch and keep the soil quality and nutrient levels in a good range. One of the biggest indicators that you may have a patch disease is levels of nitrogen in the soil that are too high. Be careful of using nitrogen fertilizers in your yard too often because it heavily contributes to patch disease.
Patch diseases are a common turfgrass problem, and although many are serious if left untreated, most can be headed off and your lawn restored without too much of an issue The important thing is to properly identify the problem, what host or fungi is causing the problem and take the correct steps to eliminate the threat.
Different types of grasses are more likely to develop patch diseases than others and some are more susceptible to some hosts or fungi than others. Knowing the type of grass you have in your lawn is a huge benefit when trying to narrow down what is the root cause of any discoloration, dead spots, or other symptoms your lawn may be experiencing. It is easy enough to look up once you know the type of grass you have in your lawn as to what types of hosts and fungi are most likely to be infecting your lawn.
Once you have cataloged the symptoms of a patch disease in your lawn, you will want to narrow down the type of fungi or host that is causing the problem in order to choose the most effective form of treatment to your lawn. Take into account what type of grass you have, if it was grown from seed or you had sod put down, fertilizer applications in the last year, and your lawn maintenance you have done.
Doing some research online can help you get going in the right direction but it is important to ask lawn care experts for help and advice in recognizing the type of patch disease and their recommendations for effectively ridding your lawn of the disease and restoring it to it’s healthy state.
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