What we’re noticing:

  • As far as lawns go; easy street (this is my lame excuse for not updating the blog as regularly as other years). We’ve had more than enough rain and no hot weather. Here’s just the last 72 hours when 1″ a week is normal.
  • With all this rain has come a couple of diseases. Neither of which are damaging or warrant a fungicide treatment…
    • Ascochyta (above) showed up a full month earlier than it has most other years. We didn’t even recognize what was happening in the first case we saw.
      • Our blog about it 6/11/2023
      • Our blog about it 6/13/2022
      • It’s caused by “humid, wet weather. Other factors, such as thick thatch, poor soil, over or under-fertilization, and dull mower blades”… i.e normal weather will fix it in a few weeks but make sure you’re not watering your lawn.
    • Red Thread is the other disease we’re seeing. This one we can do something about; it is an indicator of low nitrogen. It will appear commonly near large trees which consumed more nitrogen than where those roots aren’t present. The rain we’ve had this Spring has accelerated growth and the use of the nitrogen we put down. See “what are we doing section”

What we’re doing:

  1. We’re wrapping up our first round of landscape bed services.
  2. We’re working double time on our first round of Mosquito spraying.
    • This one is tricky; the mosquitoes are bad because it keeps raining but with excessive rain our product becomes less effective. We’re trying to do the best we can without doing nothing and dancing around the rain.
    • I had my personal lawn done on a day it rained and it still worked SO WELL! It was like a switch turning off the Mosquitos on our deck.
  3. We’re starting our next round of regular lawn applications which includes a proprietary premium fertilizer that we have custom blended. This will supplies lawns with the Nitrogen they need to cure any Red Thread disease and just generally make lawns the Envy of the Neighborhood.

What you can be doing:

  1. The upcoming forecast is dry (especially in comparison to what we’ve had). The wet spring we’ve had has probably “spoiled” your grass. The root “muscles” down low haven’t been used so when they’re needed, here when things dry out, your lawn will struggle a bit. This is good! This will force your roots to plunge and strengthen for when the summer really gets hot and dry.
    • Consider raising your mowing height a bit here – you’ve been able to cut at whatever you want this spring so far but eventually you’ll need to be strategic on grass care.
    • Consider that you may have to do some localized watering. Watch for pre-dormant “purple” areas.