Yellowing Grass Blades

A grass blades health plays an important role in a quality lawn.  If you have ever noticed yellowing grass blades in your lawn, we might have a few solutions to help you get rid of them.  One of the most common plagues to attack a lawn is operator error.  Meaning that...

Snow Mold

Snow mold is a lawn disease caused by snow pack on turf grass.  There are two common types of snow mold that are usually found in lawns, pink snow mold and gray snow mold.  Pink snow mold resembles a cob web like material that is pale pink to peach in color.  Gray...

Fall Lawn Fungus

Fall lawn fungus time is almost here.  Proper identification and treatment can stop damage to your turf grass.  Since temperature plays a crucial role in the development of lawn fungus, seasons also dictate which fungus can be found in your lawn at a given time. ...

Fix Dog Spots in Your Lawn

If you have a dog, you probably have dog spots in your lawn.  Dogs are mans best friend, but they can sure do a number on your lawn.  There is nothing worse than a perfectly manicured lawn with yellow patches all over the place.  No one is going to trade in their...

Where is the Fungus?

Fungus out breaks have been minimal his year because of the lack of snow fall in the winter, to the early onset of spring in March.  Our lack of rain and drought conditions have even decreased the amount of fungus seen in eastern Iowa lawns.  Most fungus like leaf...

Common Lawn Diseases Part 3

Summer lawn diseases are sometimes hard to properly identify because of the similarities between the diseases.  Some of the lawn diseases actively present in the summer produce similar damage to that of drought stressed grass.  Through grass-blade examination and...