I suppose my horticultural world has been dull lately. As a result, it doesn't take much to excite me. For instance, the guys up at Evergreen Lawn Care were at my house applying the fall application ...

When spring and summer rains combine with heat and humidity, we can expect the resurgence of warm-season turf diseases. One disease that is always present but really makes itself known in our ...

Take-all root rot is a warm-season turf disease affecting zoysia, Bermuda, and St. Augustine grasses. Symptoms include yellowing, thinning turf, and black, rotten roots. Proper irrigation, ...

It thrills! It chills! It's a fungus that attacks your lawn! Coming soon to a yard near you: root rot. Actually, it's probably already there, and if that's the case, it's too late to treat it with ...

Q: Attached is a photograph of my lawn. I’ve had the same problem with my St. Augustine every year for the past five years. I have applied a fungicide and Canadian peat moss with no apparent effect. I ...

You may be aware of the common pests and pathogens that harm our St. Augustine grass lawns on an annual basis such as take-all root rot (Gaeumannomyces graminis var. Graminis), large patch fungus ...

Q: What is this weed, and how can I get it out of my lawn? (I’m thinking it’s dichondra.) A: Your assumption is correct. It’s actually a pretty little trailing weed that grows just an inch or two ...

Q: How often do I need to apply sphagnum peat moss to my St. Augustine lawn to stop Take All Root Rot? It really seemed to help two years ago. A: It's possible you would need to apply it every year.

Dear Neil: Winter really hurt my St. Augustine. Now it looks like half of it won't be coming back, even though the rest of it is green and growing fairly well. What can I do to help it? The same ...

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.

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