I was at my local home depot yesterday and was tempted to purchase a bag of "Scott's fungal control" to apply to the lawn - it would be a preventive measure, as currently there are no signs of fungal damage to my lawn that I have seen. But given ALL the rain we've gotten here this past month (I'm in LI, NY) I was concerned and thought about putting this stuff down. But before I wasted money, I definitely wanted to get the opinion of this forum.

Many thanks to you all.

If it has been very wet and then turns very hot, watch for slime mold.

A blue grey mold--but it can come in many colors- that turns to a black slippery mess if you try to pick it up. It requires no treatment but raking up and putting it in the trash. Actually it is a benefical mold that decomposes dead matter, but like snow mold, it can kill the grass if left there

My personal opinion is that lawn fungicides are some of the nastier things people put in their lawns and I choose not to use them and I think they should only be used if you start seeing signs of a problem, so take that for what it's worth.

Though I've been using organic products I started looking into other options since 3 weeks had gone by and I didn't see any improvement I started looking at other options, including the Scotts Fungus product. From other opinions I read online, it didn't seem to work well. Reading the instructions seemed to indicate that it should be used as a preventative once you start seeing the first signs of fungus.

If you made it this far it sounds like you take good care of your lawn. Keeping your lawn healthy is the best thing you can do to help prevent disease. If you've never had fungus problems this time of year in the past, you're probably good, if you have I think you should just keep an eye out for anything and then decide what to do afteryou have identified what it is.Not all fungicides work on every disease.

I personally have found great success with cornmeal applied at 20pd/1000sf to cure fungus outbreaks and 10/1000sf for preventive measures. You can purchase at any feed dealer. You can search for a poster here called "Dchall and cornmeal" to find out more information. Google feed dealers in your area, and then give them a jingle to see if they carry it. Cornmeal usually comes in 50pd bags. You can use cornmeal as a preventive measure as cornmeal grows the healthy fungus that feeds of the fungus's that cause brown patch and other lawn fungus's. Cornmeal is difficult to spread in a spreader. I just use some plastic "Rudy's" cups and spread with the kids. (Rudy's cups are large plastic cup from a BQ restaurant in my area)

Organicnoob, I am surprised that you weren't happy with it. The pictures you posted certainly looked like it was starting to do the job. With more severe fungus outbreaks, I have experienced that it takes more than one application around 3-4 weeks apart.

I was very happy with it. I was just get anxious after 3 weeks it still looked bad. After I posted the first picture it started to look better. The second photo was a couple of days after the second application. It's all gone now.

I'm glad to hear the cornmeal took care of it! I know what you mean about getting anxious, 3 weeks can seem like "forever". When I had brownpatch that took out my grass, then the new sod...I was counting the days...!

I received an email from the site below stating, "Recent weather patterns have been favorable for brown patch to start showing up on cool-season turfgrasses across much of North Carolina. In particular, the past few nights have been relatively warm coupled with higher humidity and frequent rain showers. This provides ideal conditions for this fungus to take off. Preventative measures should be taken now before the average daily temperature gets too high for cool-season turfgrasses to recover."

Of course this is NC, but similar conditions could occur where you are. Just my $.02.