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 ...

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 ...

Q: We are having a hard time with our fescue lawn. We use 12-4-8 fertilizer four times a year but no preemergent or postemergent weed control. We aim for 1 inch of water per week, watering about one ...

Dormant grass doesn't always mean dormant weeds.

If you’re seeing irregularly circular brown patches in your summer lawn, the problem may be a disease called brown patch. Brown patch is one of the most common diseases in home lawns (as well as golf ...

Many of the lawn diseases that have plagued homeowners this summer can be controlled effectively through sound management practices and timely application of fungicides this fall. If leaf spot, ...

Q: Sections of my St. Augustine grass have patches of dead grass. I don’t think it was chinch bugs. Could this possibly by a pathogen? It appears to resemble pictures of summer patch or dollar patch.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...