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Necrotic Ring Spot Fungal Disease appearing on lawns
TL;DR Cause: Necrotic Ring Spot is a fungal disease caused by Leptosphaeria korrae, primarily affecting Kentucky bluegrass. Symptoms: Appears as brown rings or arcs of dead grass, often with a green center, resembling “frog-eye” patterns. Spread: The fungus spreads through…
Sir, step away from the fertilizer NOW! Astounding do-it-yourself lawn care results!
TL;DR DIY Lawn Care Pitfalls: Homeowners often make mistakes like uneven fertilizer application, leading to patchy or burned lawns. Improper Herbicide Use: Applying non-selective herbicides on lawns can harm both weeds and grass, resulting in widespread damage. Over-Fertilization: Applying excessive…
How to Save Your Lawn & Trees From Heat and Drought Stress
Many homeowners like you want to know how you can help your lawn and garden make it through intense heat when it is sweltering hot and humid out. Lawns in Ontario are comprised of ‘Cool-season’ grass species like Kentucky Bluegrass…
Bentgrass Plus Drought Plus Heat, Means Dead Patches on Lawns
When we receive unseasonably high heat and dry weather, these conditions cause bentgrass and other annual weedy grasses in lawns to brown out much earlier than we normally see it. If you are seeing areas on your lawn yellowing or browning right now,…
Black Medic Weed on Lawns
What is Black Medic Weed? We received an email the other day asking what is the best way to control the weed Black Medic weed on home lawns. Black Medic (Medicago lupulina) is a difficult-to-control weed due to its small…
Check out what is happening at St.James Park! LAWNS are just as good as trees
Media Release December 6, 2011 Breathing new life into St. James Park New turfgrass will revive green space damaged by Occupy Toronto protest TORONTO — After five weeks playing host to Occupy Toronto protesters, the lawn at Toronto’s St. James…
Back to School means Back to work on the lawn
Just because the kids are going back to school soon, doesn’t mean the summer is over, at least not for your lawn and trees. In fact, we are just embarking on the best growing weather you can ask for when it…
Leaf Blight & drought stress running roughshod over southern Ontario lawns
(Written July 2010) It has been a brutally dry year overall for grass. Two years of record wet summers followed by a record dry Spring in decades has been followed by unseasonably high temperatures and humidity. The few long rains we’ve…
GTA Watering alert!
We are finding lawns that are suffering acute drought stress. This whole spring has been terribly dry, and the heat and wind is only making it worse. The rain that is expected this week is welcome, but it just is…
