The season of spring is here and we are researching some tips on how to start caring for our lawn and other techiques we have to do to preserve the health of our yard. This video speaks about how to care for our lawn specifically fertilizing our grass to prevent weeds and those common lawn diseases.

Helminthosporium Leaf Spot and Melting Out Disease – The disease that occurs usually on cool and moist weather. Frequent rain and High Humidity will trigger the development of disease in your lawn and in some cool season grasses this helminthosporium leaf spot is the major problem that is commonly experienced in grasses especially with those who has kentucky bluegrass or ryegrass. And the bermuda type of grass will also suffer the most under warm season grasses.

Usually, its first symptoms is the leaf spot where you can see tiny purple colored spots on your grass blade may it be 1/32 to ¼ inch that will also depend on the kind of grass you have. Then as the spot enlarged the center portion then changes color it turns into tan while the edges outside will still be purple. Then the melting out period This happens depending on the mode of your surroundings may it become dry for the disease to disappear then the grass will start to grow. Otherwise the grass will turn from yellow to orange loosing its life.

Spring Dead Spot – The most
dangerous diseasethat could cause heavy damage to your grass especially with bermuda grass. A fungi commonly known in U.S. as Leptosphaeria Korrae and Ophiospharella herpotricha. These fungi usually attack a full-blown bermuda grass lawns. Those grasses that are weak and does not have enough nutrients to fight diseases are very much prone to it. This kind of disease will start to invade during fall when the soil cools up to 80 degrees by that time the disease will start to grow to attack its roots.

You will notice that your grass is sick when it is becoming dull and has patches and looks weak. This symptoms will become more clear when spring comes the growth of the disease will tend increase rapidly.

Red Thread and Pink Patch Diseases – This two diseases frequently appear at the same time. This usually affects grasses like kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass, bentgrass etc.. This is the easieast to detect in lawns as this creates a bright pink color and become reddish fungus in a thread like look. During moist cool morning, the fungus invade into the grass with this pink colored gelatin known as mycelium. They strike into the grass when there is no enough nitrogen as they could easily grow in a moist, cool area within your lawn

Powdery Mildew – When this occurs in your lawn, you will notice that your grass looks powdery as if there is a powder being applied to it. You have to be alarmed as this is the disease that develops in light or heavy shade. This is very common to kentucky bluegrass and in fescue as well especially when temperature is in 60 to 70 degrees in humid weather. Unlike other diseases,this does not really attack on roots. However,the powder thing you noticed in your grass could block the sunlight that for the photosynthesis to go through it an would make your grass look dull and worst is that they could die too.

This video will help you learn how to seed bare spots in your lawn or your entire lawn.

The most recommended time to repair bare spots in your lawn is during the season of fall. These spots may be the cause of your pets urine, foot traffic drought or it may be a sign that your lawn is suffering from a disease where it is being invaded by bugs or pests. When grass doesn’t grow anymore, your lawn is already prone to ruts that will create a larger portion in your lawn. What is essential is that you should match your existing grass with your newly planted ones to have a more level look of your lawn. Here are ways to repair the bare spots:

- get all the old dead grass in the spot using a shovel and trim to clean up and put in the new top soil then start to plant the seeds and in order not to be damaged by heavy rain, you can put in straw in the seeds. In planting your seeds, make sure that you don’t plunge it deeply in the ground.

- Put on fertilizer according to label instructions for a primary application.

- Patch should be covered with a straw to keep in the moisture for the seeds to develop or grow. A light spray on the seeds will also be best for the seeds to grow evenly, and make the top portion of seeds moist always.When seeds develop, keep them moist and put in ample amount of water to make it moist down from its surface.

- When seeds start to grow, avoid walking or mowing through the area until the grass will reach in an about 2-3 inches height.Also, weed control should not be use on your new grass until they mature.