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Providers of safe, non-toxic, organic fertilizer, lawn care products and natural weed control. Services include fertilization, aeration, dethatching, over seeding, hydroseeding, fungus treatments, grub treatments, mole repellent, soil analysis, soil amendment and do-it-yourself plans.
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Description
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Pythium Blight:
- Highly destructive; can destroy large areas of turf in less than 24 hours
- Active in hot, humid weather, especially in lush, highly fertilized yards (nitrogen) with poor air flow and drainage
- Look for water soaked, slimy, purplish-blue leaves. Turf often lays flat and looks greasy. Leaves turn light tan as they die.
- Often streaks the yard, following drainage patterns, mowers and foot traffic.
- Prevent by adhering to recommended watering habits, aerate, use gypsum to improve drainage and avoid unnecessary fertilizing during hot, humid weather.
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Necrotic Ring/Summer Patch:
- Infects roots, rhizomes and crowns during cool, damp spring weather.
- Inhibits plant ability to take up water; symptoms appear during hot, dry summer weather as plant stress increases.
- Forms rings/crescents from 12" to 36" in diameter.
- Prevent by employing sound cultural practices to keep turf healthy.
- Renovate damaged areas with perennial ryegrass, which is resistant to patch diseases.
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Dollar Spot
- Affects all common turf grass; is most active during warm, humid weather on nitrogen deficient yards.
- Starts as silver dollar sized spots of dead turf, can spread to 3-6 inches in diameter and blend together.
- On Kentucky bluegrass, dead spots are hourglass shaped with distinct reddish-brown margins.
- On ryegrass and fescue, lesion has a reddish-brown base and shriveled tips
- In the early morning, active fungus appears as a cottony growth.
- Keep yard fertilized (not too much, see pythium blight) and apply fertilizer in late May/early July to commonly affected areas.
- Adhere to recommended watering patterns.
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Gray Leaf Spot and Helminthosporium
- Affects all turf grass but both are especially hard on perennial rye grass.
- Very destructive and can decimate large areas of turf in short amount of time.
- High humidity and heat encourage growth.
- Gray leaf spot: starts as small, reddish-brown patches 1-2 inches in diameter and enlarge quickly. Blades have brown, oval lesions with tan centers or gray spots with yellow halos.
- Gray leaf spot often appears in lawns that are mowed too high (>3.5 inches), overfertilized with nitrogen, and/or watered during the day.
- Helminthosporium: distinct, dark, purplish red leaf spots with tan centers enlarge until the whole blade is infected. After spreading to the crown, they turf appears to melt away.
- Helminthosporium: mow properly, water deeply and infrequently, manage thatch, and plant disease resistant strains of grass.
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