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Tips for summer lawn care to keep your lawn beautiful
Summer is a time to enjoy the outdoors with your family. Barbecues and playing in the courtyard are an integral part of the summer experience. However, summer can wreak havoc on the health of your lawn, with more hours of heat and warm weather pests. Having a professional company to handle your lawn care and maintenance can leave you with a beautiful garden all summer – and leave enough time to enjoy it.
The lawn maintenance professionals know where to look for evidence of current or future insects and lawn disease problems and usually can stop problems before they become serious threats to their turf. The following tips are ideal for those involved in their care and maintenance own turf and also serve as a good way to check up on the lawn in between professional visits.
Lawn Grubs is a problem only on grass because the underground where you can not see to do their damage. They feed on the tender, which cuts the grass source water and nutrients. Lawn grubs are actually the larvae of a variety of insects that lay their eggs in the summer, below the soil surface in the lawn. Eggs before hatch and the larvae eat the roots of the grass. Although the damage is already done at that time may not appear until weeks or months later (when you are far too late to do anything about it).
It is not, the grass turns brown over time and die. In severe cases, all the grass roots are cut and can be rolled up like a carpet. To avoid this, most lawn care professionals throughout the season provide protection against lawn grubs with as little damage as an application.
Caterpillars of land are one of the most common insect pests. Webworms are difficult to detect on a lawn as are small and tend to stay on the surface (where they feed on the crowns of grass plants). Lawn care professionals are trained to recognize the first signs of damage track. However, the best way to deal with sod webworms is to stop them before they start. Webworms are the larvae of small moths, brown can be seen hovering the lawn when the grass is disturbed. A few moths are common in lawns, but many suggest it is time using a control to stop the larvae that hatch soon after the eggs are laid.
Unwanted pests are not the only cause of brown grass, ugly. As summer temperatures rise, the conditions are ripe for infestation of lawn diseases, like dollar spot disease and brown spot. Here are the common symptoms of diseases of the lawn to keep in mind:
Dollar spot and brown spots begin individual size of a silver dollar. As the spots increase in number, begin to join together, forming large areas of brown. If the disease is allowed to reach this stage, recovery may be slow, reduced the beauty of your lawn.
Brown patch disease begins in small patches a few inches in diameter and grows to cover large areas of lawn. Often, a "smoke ring" of dark gray spider web-like mycelium can surround the area.
Follow these tips and you can enjoy the comfort of a lush green lawn all summer.
About the Author
Perry Boylan is a Marketing Manager with Scotts LawnService. Perry has worked for Scotts Miracle-Gro for 10 years providing sound lawn, garden, and pest management advice. He has worked with both product related and service delivery business units. Scotts LawnService will transform your lawn with professional lawn care services, tree and shrub care, and pest control. Scotts offers a FREE lawn analysis. Visit http://www.scottslawnservice.com/ for information.
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