- Category: Lawn Diseases
Leaf Spot is another of the fungal lawn diseases that can affect Saint Augustine Grass. The disease is most easily recognizable by the elongated spots which appear on the Saint Augustine grass leaf blades. The oval shaped lesions can appear several times on each leaf blade, and the disease will be evident in large patches, or may even cover the entire lawn.
- Category: Lawn Diseases
Dollar Spot is another of the common lawn diseases which can affect different lawn types and is most commonly seen in Spring through to Fall. Dollar spot is most noticeable by its patterns of small spots of discolored grass, which are most often 1 to 4 inches in diameter and can spread across the surface of the lawn, or may be restricted
- Category: Lawn Diseases
If a Saint Augustine lawn has developed circular patches of dead, brown areas of turf, then the most likely cause for these brown patches will be a lawn fungus disease called Brown Patch. Brown Patch lawn disease is triggered in a similar manner and time of year as the Leaf Spot disease. these times will mainly be in the warmer months when humidity
- Category: Lawn Diseases
Another of the more common lawn diseases to affect St Augustine grass is Powdery Mildew. Powdery Mildew not only affects lawns and grasses of all types, but also affects all plant types too. So in the case of a garden which is showing signs of infestations of Powdery Mildew disease, it would be highly recommended to treat this disease in the gardens
- Category: Lawn Diseases
Fairy Ring is a fungal disease which affects all types of lawns, including Saint Augustine grass. Fairy Ring is most noticeable and distinguished as creating large round patches in a lawn, with the perimeter of these patches either being a very bright green color or creating an outer ring of mushrooms, while the inside of these circles will often contain turf
- Category: Lawn Diseases
Take All Root Rot is a relatively newly discovered turf disease which is becoming more prevalent on lawns. Saint Augustine grass was the first lawn type which was discovered to be harboring this new lawn disease in the early 1990s in the United States, and since this time it has been discovered to be affecting many other lawn types as well.
- Category: Lawn Diseases
Once an outbreak of lawn disease has occurred in our Saint Augustine grass lawns, the very best methods to begin treating it are also the best methods for the prevention of lawn disease. So if we haven't already been following these cultural management practices to reduce the possibility of lawn fungus outbreaks, then it's time to start right now with a simple year round lawn care program.
- Category: Lawn Diseases
The old saying about an ounce of prevention being worth more than a pound of cure is exactly true when it comes to lawn diseases in St Augustine Grass. Preventing the onset of lawn diseases such as lawn fungus in Saint Augustine grass is really a very simple process which involves nothing more than following good lawn care practices
