Lawns are interesting things. Not commonplace until the middle part of the 20th century — at least not in the way we know them today — what seems from a distance as a pretty mundane and uniform thing ...

Just when you thought you were a lawn care pro, blemishes on your green grass appear. A common culprit to these brown spots or dead grass is a fungal lawn disease. Turf diseases tend to happen during ...

To control brown patch, treat with a lawn disease control product as soon as you see rapidly enlarging brown areas, especially after a period of cool, moist weather. Read label directions carefully ...

If you’re seeing irregularly circular brown patches in your summer lawn, the problem may be a disease called brown patch. Brown patch is one of the most common diseases in home lawns (as well as golf ...

Q: We are having a hard time with our fescue lawn. We use 12-4-8 fertilizer four times a year but no preemergent or postemergent weed control. We aim for 1 inch of water per week, watering about one ...

As winter draws near, most gardeners have stowed away their lawnmowers for the season, but there's one last task that needs tackling to keep your lawn in tip-top shape. Fusarium, also known as snow ...

There's nothing quite like looking outside your window and seeing a vivid green lawn shining before you. What's less pleasant, however, is looking out onto that lawn and noticing an ugly brown patch ...

How we take care of our lawns changes as we move into October and the fall. It is important that we allow the grass to prepare itself in the fall for the coming winter when it will go dormant. For ...

Q: I live in Henderson where we enjoy having a lawn as part of our yard. It was thick and beautiful when we moved in, but it soon withered after we made some changes to sprinkler layouts and had the ...

Skip Orth has been in the lawn service business for over 25 years, he is the author of the book “What Every Home Owner Along The Emerald Coast Needs To Know About Lawn Care,” he has authored ...