Disease Control

There are numerous diseases to affect the lawn, here are some of the main ones:

Algae - The green or black slime is made up of microscopic plants and is usually associated with bare or sparsely grassed areas, together with waterlogged conditions.
Fusarium - Small areas of yellowing grass gradually increasing in size, which may merge to form large brown areas of dead grass. The diseased areas may be covered with a white cottony mould.
Lichen - These are leaf - like, brown plates when moist and grey with curled up edges when dry.
Red Thread - This disease is well known and found world - wide. Initially irregular formed spots appear with a light brown appearance, which turn straw coloured during infection. With high humidity a pink, cottony mycelium occurs.
Fairy Rings - These come from fungi which occur in soil. The symptoms are caused by various fungi from the group of basidiomcetes. These fungi spread the mycelium into the form of a typical ring.

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