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Help Prevent Lawn Disease - With A Little Give And Take

If you've ever seen a lawn nearly destroyed by disease, you know how devastating these unfriendly parasites can be to a beautiful lawn. And since treatment of the diseases themselves is both difficult and fairly costly, prevention of fungus disease is very important. Keeping your lawn as healthy as possible is the best way to protect it from the disease-causing agents (or pathogens) that are all around. So, when we find something that works well to keep your lawn strong we want to make sure you know about it.


Eat Right, Breathe Right for Better Lawn Health

There's a kind of give and take to your lawns health. The right kind of fertilization at the right time gives your lawn the nutrients it needs, while aeration takes, or removes, compacted soil and thatch to give water, air and nutrients an easy way to reach your turf's roots so they can breathe. Together, regular aeration and the right kind of fertilization along with good cultural practices are the two most important things we can do for your lawn to help it fight off disease.

Fertilization - Keeping The Lawn Off Junk Food

A lot of people like to give their lawn junk food fertilizers of fast-release nitrogen for a super quick green. It seems to make the lawn happy, but can really bring on all kinds of disease and other problems.

The Perfect Lawns program provides balanced fertilizer, a meat and potatoes diet, instead of just dessert.

Your lawn is better able to outgrow disease when it appears, develop stronger roots and directly fight disease. Your grass keeps growing at a strong, steady rate, without the kind of quick growth that can invite disease. But its not enough to provide these elements, if they cant reach their destination.

Aeration: A Breakthrough in Disease Prevention

Watering, walking across our lawns, even rainfall, all helps pack down the top layers of soil. This compacted soil makes it hard for water and other nourishment to get through to the roots. Thatch, the spongy layer of partially decomposed material between your grass and the soil, can also block water and fertilizer if it becomes thicker than a 1/2-inch. Thick thatch and compacted soil contribute significantly to the development of disease in lawns. Core aeration helps both reduce thatch and break up soil. By pulling out thousands of plugs of soil and thatch from your lawn, we create room for air, water and fertilizer to reach the roots. A single aeration will remove about 10% of the thatch from a lawn. Most lawns should be aerated at least once a year, when roots are actively growing in fall or spring.