Symptoms and Cures for Leaf Blight
There are many things that can ruin a lawn quickly. Some of these things are environmental and others are naturally occurring diseases and pests. One of the things that you should remember is that there are always warning signs available to those that take care of their lawns on a regular basis.
One of these warning signs is leaf blight, and this can have a drastic effect on your grass if you don’t pay enough attention. If you keep your eyes open, you will be able to spot these changes before the blight takes effect and destroys all of your hard work.
One of the first warning signs that you can get is if your grass blades are starting to get weak and stringy in appearance. This will usually happen when you have long periods of cool wet weather as that is the perfect environment for leaf blight to grow. There isn’t much you can do to change the environment that your lawn is in, but there are a few things you can add to your watering system that will help stall any growth of leaf blight from taking over your grass.
If you start to notice a discoloration in your grass, then that could mean it has a fungus starting to grow. Leaf blight is usually noticed when patches of grass start to turn yellowish in color. There are also cases of leaf blight that turns grass a red or brown color as well, and this is all because of the fungus that has started to overrun your grass. The good news is that if you get a few nice sunny days that are dry and warm you will more than likely not find any more leaf blight in your lawn.
Just walking across your grass can end up spreading this fungal disease to other areas of your lawn. Fungus is spread by the release of spores and walking across your lawn can end up releasing millions of spores into the air and onto your shoes. Then you transfer those spores to other parts of your lawn and the fungus will start to grow there as well as where you already walked.
Regularly using a fungicide on your lawn and keeping it fertilized the way you are supposed to, keeps away worry about this pesky leaf blight taking hold in the first place. Either do that, or somehow change the weather around your house so that it stays warm and dry most of the time you’re out side.
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