Whats the best way to keep lawns disease-free?
According to TruGreen, lawn diseases are almost always a fungus. There are lots of things you can do to make it harder for fungal diseases to take hold: • Most fungal diseases use the moisture on the leaves of grass plants to produce and move spores. Avoid watering just before dark as water will remain on the leaf blades longer at night; • Raise your mow height, cutting your grass extremely short will leave it susceptible to lawn diseases; • Keep you mower blades sharpened, blunt or dull mower blade will shred the tops of the grass leaves and expose tissue for lawn diseases to enter the plants more easily; • Lawn diseases can be specific to certain varieties of grass and in certain circumstances introducing other varieties of grass into your lawn may help; • Increase light, air access and movement over the grass by pruning overhanging trees and shrubs, will all help reduce incidences of turf disease; • Lawn aeration also helps produce healthy grass; • In severe cases, apply a professio
