Beat the fungus that thrives in Carolina heat and humidity.
Our hot, humid summers are perfect for lawn disease. Brown patch can tear through a fescue lawn in a single muggy week, and bermuda and zoysia lawns get their own problems, like large patch in spring and fall.
The key is prevention. A well-timed program keeps disease from taking hold in the first place, backed by curative treatment and simple watering and mowing changes when something flares up.
I treat lawns in North Raleigh, Leesville, Brier Creek and Southeast Durham.
Preventive protection for fescue once summer nights stay above 60°F. That’s when brown patch gets going here, and getting ahead of it beats chasing the damage after it shows.
Large patch and spring dead spot infect bermuda and zoysia in the fall, even though the damage doesn’t show until spring, so I treat them preventively in the fall, when prevention actually works.
Knocks down an active outbreak: dollar spot, pythium, gray leaf spot and the rest.
Straightforward advice on watering (early morning only) and mowing that keeps disease pressure down between treatments.
Tap any of these to see what it looks like, when it shows up here, and what you can do.
A summer fungal disease that causes circular brown patches in fescue and other cool-season lawns during hot, humid weather.
A common lawn disease that leaves small bleached-out spots, most noticeable on closely mowed grass.
A fungal disease that causes big circular patches in warm-season lawns during cool, wet weather.
A fast-moving water-mold disease that can wreck a lawn in a day during hot, humid, wet weather.
A summer disease that hits stressed lawns hard, especially newly established fescue and ryegrass.
A fungal disease of bermuda and zoysia lawns that leaves circular dead patches which don't green up in spring.
One bad outbreak can undo a whole season of care in days. Staying ahead of it keeps your lawn green and intact through the worst of the summer, and protects what you’ve put into it.
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