If your lawn has brown spots or circular patches, it may be a fungal disease. Fungal growth can spread quickly, damaging large areas of your lawn, so quick action is key to minimizing this damage. Luckily, Lawn Pride® offers lawn disease control treatments to tackle any fungal disease affecting your yard.
Lawn Disease Control Treatments for Every Type of Lawn Fungus
Controlling Lawn Disease
When a fungal disease takes over your lawn, it is important to move quickly. Our lawn disease treatments specialists will diagnose the type of disease and use fungicide to control the spread of the disease in your lawn.
Special Lawn Programs
A minimum of two to three lawn disease treatments are required to achieve optimum results. The Lawn Pride Lawn Fungicide Program is your best protection for dealing with disease in your lawn.
Proactive Approach
Our professionals may recommend you add the lawn disease control program to your regular program to ensure we can take a more proactive instead of reactive approach to limiting disease activity in your lawn.
Fungicide Treatments
Our team can help you diagnose your particular fungus and help you develop a plan for fighting it, which will include fungicide treatments.
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We remove the guesswork from lawn care and provide you with lawn disease treatments that work. On top of that, we offer free estimates for fungicide treatments. To get started, request a free lawn fungicide treatment estimate today!
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Lawn Disease Control Services
Fungal diseases can be confusing and stressful, and without significant changes in cultural practices and the introduction of disease-resistant grass types, the disease tends to return year after year. Lawn Pride is here to help you in your battle against lawn fungus and disease. We also provide these other helpful lawn services:
Aeration
We encourage healthy lawn growth with Lawn Pride Aeration services.
Lawn disease control is most successful when you can identify the type of disease attacking your yard and apply a fungicide before the fungus gets out of control. Disease in turf is influenced significantly by rainfall, temperature, humidity, cultural practices, and the environment in your area. Some of the most common fungal diseases include the following:
Brown patch disease
Yellow patch disease
Zoysia patch disease
Summer patch disease
Take-All patch disease
Dollar spot disease
Snow mold disease
Slime mold disease
Leaf spot disease
Pythium blight
Red thread disease
Fairly Ring disease
Necrotic ring spot disease
Powdery mildew disease
Rust disease
Fusarium patch disease
Stripped smut disease
Crown rot anthracnose
How Lawn Diseases Develop
As the saying goes, understanding is half of the battle. If you are battling a fungal disease spreading across your lawn, it is helpful to understand how fungus develops. Fungus on grass needs three main conditions to take hold. Fungal spores exist in every lawn but only become a problem when these three circumstances align. It is often called the disease triangle. The three elements of the disease triangle include the following:
Presence of Pathogens – With any fungal disease, the spores of that particular fungi must be present for an infection to start.
Susceptible Host – Even if a fungus is present, it will not take root in your grass unless your type of grass is susceptible to that type of fungus.
Environmental Conditions – Each fungus requires specific conditions favorable to its growth. If the conditions are not right, a present pathogen will not affect a susceptible host.
Fungicides are best applied preemptively before the disease has begun to infect the grass plant. This is a preventative approach. Once the disease has already started infecting the lawn, fungicides are used to slow down the disease from spreading. This is a reactive approach.
Controlling disease is multi-faceted. Cultural practices, irrigation, and weather changes can favorably influence the environment and favor disease development and activity.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lawn Disease Treatments
With more than 40 years of experience helping homeowners keep their lawns looking beautiful and healthy, Lawn Pride is your local team for lawn disease control services. A few of the most common questions homeowners have about lawn disease treatments are answered below.
What steps can I take to prevent fungal lawn diseases?
Introduce disease-resistant cultivars of grass to your lawn.
Do not remove more than a third of the grass length at a time when mowing.
Make sure your mower blades are sharp.
Mow frequently to and to the recommended height of your grass type.
Water your lawn early in the morning to allow time for it to dry during the day.
Ensure it gets 1 to 1.5 inches of water per week.
Avoid overwatering.
Aerate your lawn up to 2 times annually.
Lightly rake the diseased areas to help open up the grass blades and allow the infected area to dry out.
Contact your local lawn disease control team from Lawn Pride at the first signs of a problem
When should I get lawn disease treatments from Lawn Pride?
The most effective time to apply a fungicide for grass is at the onset when conditions are favorable for the disease to begin growing. Lawn fungicide treatments are most successful as a preventative measure, but they can combat a large-scale infection when applied by professionals. The schedule will vary depending on your location, type of grass, and type of fungal disease, but it is common to apply fungicide monthly from the early spring until the late fall.
What is brown patch fungus?
Brown patch fungus is a very common fungal disease in grass caused by Rhizoctonia solani spores. Once started, it spreads rapidly, causing circular areas of brown grass surrounded by dark, narrow rings. It is crucial to treat brown patch fungus with a lawn disease treatment as soon as possible.
