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| Hi everyone. What you see before you is my 100% tall fescue front bank in front and to the side of my home. I renovated my side of the bank last fall and had great results. However, now I see some brownish spots appearing toward the right side and was curious as to what this might be? Is this disease? Is this drought? Is this a fungus? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks all!
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Tue, Jun 26, 12 at 19:50
| Baked grass. Banks are notoriously hard to water. That fescue is dead. You'll need to reseed in the fall. Depending on where you live (where do you live?) fall can come as early as mid August. For now I would get more water on it (water longer, not more frequently) and stop mowing the bank for awhile until it cools off. If you are not mowing at the highest setting on your mower deck, you are mowing too low anyway. Tall grass can make it through the dry and heat much better than short grass. How often do you water and for how long? |
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| Definitely looks like drought stress. Were those areas dark green before they turned brown. TTTF gets very dark when it is drought stressed, then it will turn brown shortly thereafter. It looks like the grass on the edges of the brown spots are dark green. Do the blades in those areas look folded up and thin? If so, that's drought stress. You would be well advised to water the area ASAP. Hitting it with shampoo before watering might help water get into those areas faster, as it looks like they might have some hydrophobic soil. Fungal diseases usually start out as rings or circles, sometimes accompanied with fungal mycellium. Then the blades collapse and die, and if conditions are right spread outward. If I remember correctly you live in Westchester county, and the weather in your area hasn't been that conducive to fungal diseases yet. |
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| Thank you all for your advice! I watered it for over an hour today to hopefully get some much needed hydration. I do mow the grass as high as possible but sometimes due to the grade of the hill, certain areas get shorter than others. I will be reseeding those patches this fall but until then I'll see how it will respond to active watering. Speaking of water, as we approach the full blown summer months...how often should I water? Once a week? If so how long? 1 hour? I live in Reading, Pennsylvania. |
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