disease control

Turf disease can effect any of our warm season turf varieties.  However, by understanding the conditions and factors that contribute to the spread of such diseases we can adjust cultural practices, provide immediate curative treatments to stop the spread, and utilize preventative treatments at the correct time each year.  

Cultural practices that which we may ask our customers to do includes adjusting mowing height, adjusting mowing frequency, adjusting watering system, bagging clippings, and resolving poor drainage issues.  Through adjusting how these tasks are performed and their timing can greatly impede a disease from having the condition it needs to develop and spread.  

Curative measures are taken whenever a disease is present and in an active state.  A curative measure for brown patch turf disease would be a fungicide applied to the area along with a buffer area around the direct effective area to minimize spread.  Curative measures are effective in stopping and curbing the spread of an active fungus.  Turf recovery and green up will follow at varying speeds depending on the varying damage caused. 

Preventative measures may be taken whenever a turf has been found to be susceptible to a disease which may have a track record of appearing each particular season or seasons.  A fungicide is applied to the areas of susceptibility at the time or just before the time that they have appeared in the past.  This fungicide will often minimize and control a disease before it is able to cause turf damage.