Brown Spots In The Lawn: Fungus And Disease Options 

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I really like how you broke down the disease triangle. Reminds me of an old girl friend I had

I love listening to you say we're going to get rain every single day here in Florida. You must be hording all the clouds because it is definitely avoiding the coast right now.

Keep teaching us 8th graders! There’s so much info in every vid (great job) that it’s tough to absorb all at once. Repeating it makes it stick. Thanks for converting us to LCNs.

Allyn, your lawn is looking a beautiful deep blue-green

Thank you! Perfect timing for my question "If I could put both products down at the same time." Even though I put Grub Control and Disease Ex down five days ago, I purchased the Bayer product. Thanks again

Perfect timing for this video. I spent the weekend trying to identify the start of an issue that I'm 99% sure is a fungus. Confirmed my next application! Thanks!!

It’s crazy how much I learned from your videos!! Thanks!

Enjoyed walking the mow today NW to SE cut with a little Van Halen leading the way! Ice Cream Man and Jamie's cryin' help the walk!!!!

Soo, the host with the fungus that’s among us. My friend your lawn is plugged in. Looking soo good. Terry Browning.

I got bermuda grass, Even though we have been on spring , here in west texas we are getting summer heat all spring long. Literally 96°+ everyday no rain. In my area I get a small shower one afternoon for like 10min 1 day in the week. Everybody in my neighborhood just gave up with their lawn for this year. I'm fighting to keep it green

Perfect timing! Threw down some DiseaseEx on Memorial Day weekend.....and will be spraying Propic 14.3 next weekend. Hoping to keeping my St. Aug healthy.

Perfect timing. I just threw down some Disease X today. 👍

Millennial Farmer hat? Way cool dude. I’m in MN and know people that grew up with him. Zach is killing it on RU-vid and makes great videos.

Alan, great and informative video. I've had recurring brown patch issues with my Long Island lawn, treated with both propicanzole and Disease Ex only to have regular recurrence. I finally realized that mower hygiene (or lack thereof) has been a factor and once I started washing the bed of my mower, gained the upper hand in fighting the disease. Thought I'd share that point with you and perhaps might help others.

RU-vid has been my resource for how to do things I don't know how to do. I could kick myself for waiting until mid-September to humbly admit that I don't have the answer to my lawn problem. I think I understand now, and my Amazon order is on the way. Thank you, LCN! One topic I would like to see is how to get rid of Coastal Bermuda invading a Zoysia lawn. I tried spot spraying with Ornimec last year with little success and damaged the lawn. This year I used Fusilade which effectively killed Bermuda but severely damaged the Zoysia. It's my theory that the weakened health, combined with heavy compaction in some areas (construction crew) contributed to brown patch spreading (or fungus). Overwatering probably contributed as well.

It's getting to the point here in the Midwest that it's really hard to grow fine bladed fescue anymore. I'd hate to go back to K31 but I might have too. It gets so damn hot here with 100 plus days increasing each year that you have to water a bunch and then comes the fungus and brown patch. Make no mistake, it's not as humid as South Florida or Houston but it's pretty bad here. If you back way way off on the water then the grass can't take the heat and can die,not go dormant. We've already had six days at 100+ at my house and have most of July, all of August and early Sept to go.

I have a small section of my lawn that every single year gets brown areas in it. I treat it with the Disease X and with Sevin for grubs and it clears up and is fine the rest of the summer.

Allen, You will never know how much I & or We have enjoyed Your Vlog and the time that You put into this channel is just unreal I am sure. One thing that I really like about You is Your attitude and energy about having a nice yard and home. If You enjoy the mow or doing some yard work then it's fun and enjoyable and the outcome will show. On the other hand if Your someone who hates mowing or doing yard work then it will show and Your yard will look like ass. I find just having the right attitude goes a long long way with anything in life really. There is someone out there right now that is saying Man I wish I had not lost My job and house and I had a yard to mow............. think about that. Anyway the light bulb went off in My head about not bagging the lawn and leaving all that fert that You just put down. My next door neighbor said the same thing and Man does He have a killer lawn. Anyway since I now mulch I really enjoy the mow and My grass (bermuda) is really looking nice and thick and plush. Thank You a million times. And keep up this insane work that You do. Cheers

Completely redid my fescue lawn from seed this year and it was lookin' amazing.... until the Brown Patch hit... Didn't know any better and so now doing damage control with Propiconazole and Heritage G. This was really informative, thanks!

Appreciate the Minnesota hat

Ohhhh I see that NEW Macro-Micro blend in background! I need some! 🌱🌱🌲🌲😁

Should have watched this first before I threw mine down. Very interested in why both bags. Hmmm, should I have thrown down two bags? Well I’ll give the Scott’s a months and see and then if I have to go with bio advanced. Great video!

Great video! Thanks for the insight on the disease triangle. Make perfect sense!

Disease Ex is on sale on Amazon for $11 for a 10 pound bag, I would jump on it guys, great deal!

I just bought a house in Winder GA, had not been able to cut the grass in like over a month. Finally able to do it yesterday. I have Zoysia grass in my back yard and mostly in the front, Should I throw in a bag of each of the products now or wait. Back yard looks in much better condition than front. Thank you for all your videos they are great help will sign up to your email to keep my grass green and make neighbors mad hahahaha

Excellent video

As always, nice clear and concise video. Thank you sir!

Application with a rolling device seems variable. What would be great is if you spread it over asphalt Walk back and forth or in a circle and then show a picture of the density in which the seed was cast.

Mowed my lawn today with my MN Farmer hat on!

Nice cap Follower from Oakdale MN Keep up the good work,Thanks

I've had this many times with my St. A lawn in Texas. Biggest problem I've had is that even if it doesn't kill the St. A entirely, Bermuda will invade while the St. A is recovering and likely takeover. So now I have a patchwork lawn with areas of St. A and Bermuda. Not great. This year I decided to cut the Brown Patch out and sod it with fresh St. A. I did similar last year and seems to have worked. But perhaps I need to consider some of these fungicides- have been trying to stay organic with my Lawn Care.

Pick up a pair of xtratuf last week great for south Florida lawn care

I love the Minnesota hat!

I'm going to hit our cool season fescue back with the remainder DiseaseEx I have. I think our front lawn zoysia is in good shape. Both sides will get a good dose of SOP 0-0-50 though to get through the summer.

A little goes a long way. (That's what I tell my wife.)

This was straightforward and cleared up my fungicide questions. Thank you! New subscriber now

As always great content, thanks.

I really like the BioAdvanced (formerly Bayer) products. They work better than Spectracide, Ortho and RoundUp brands in my opinion

Great review, been using Headway G granular that combines both ingredients from both Scott's and Bioadvanced, doing the math using your reviewed products should save about $25 per app 👍

Main stage looking dominant bro. Thanks for the great informational video.👍👊😀🇺🇸

Just put my preventative down a week ago. Good stuff Mr. Nut!

I think I'm going to take the wait and see as I've never noticed it before and watch for it in my two project plots

I live in the northeast. Been working in the lawncare industry for 20 years. I like to use the disease ex starting in June until the humidity breaks. I find in works best applied every 2 weeks. My lawn is prone to pulythium blight. ( dont think I spelled that right) lol

Allyn has the yard domination line and the Crocodile Dundee Knife but even better with the Fertilizer Prills in tow!

You were reading my mind, I definitely was gonna put them down at the same time, lol.

Trying to find the link to your email newsletter … still doing it? Really appreciate your advice! Thank you!

"Peeso Neeto..." hah hah. That is actually right on par with middle school teacher humor.

Nothing quite like the smell of Scott's DiseaseEX...or Eagle20. Smells like summer!

Don’t forget to follow with some good ol potash! Has done wonders for my recovery.

Good timing, I just threw down the double punch on Friday :) Full on early summer rain season here

The edc was unexpected and cool. I’m big into it as well.

Got my CX DIY ordered tonight....Goes down the 18th!!! Can't wait. Haha @5:30 of this video if you are watching on a laptop if your are not so close to your screen it looks like a kid is holding up your mailbox and hiding his head behind the actual box behind you Allyn until you realize it your Flag decoration at the base of mailbox making the illusion.

Is that a MN Millennial Farmer hat?? New subscriber here. I just purchased a Toro Recycler RWD after watching a few of your vids. I'm really enjoying learning!

Good to see @16:43 the Edgeguard is in the off position!!!!! Nothing worse then forgetting to turn that off.

Always fun and educational. Keep up the good work! P.S. I miss the podcast.

Fungus from to much watering also. Created a dead patch because it was there so long. Lemme correct myself.. green fuzzy stuff on soil. Cutdown watering massively to correct it. Once dead brought water back up a bit ( still less than before)

I’ve lost some turf to take all patch and have read university papers stating it is pointless to re sod until it’s controlled. How many fungicide apps should I make before considering repairing the lawn?

The 24 0 4 worked out great a thick lawn just put down disease ex

Thanks for this! 👍

Was that Dean Winter? :) You must get a lot of steps going back & forth with the spreader. That’s good exercise.

Deal of the day on Amazon today. Scott’s DiseaseEX $11.

Currently fighting rust in my lawn. Been pumping the nitrogen to grow it out with no luck. Put down Scott's 2 weeks ago and my Prop 14.3 just showed up so throwing that down tomorrow.

I put milo a few days ago and luckily I did it right before a stretch of rain.

Currently have raging red thread in predominantly TTTF. Sprayed entire 16k yard with Eagle 20 at 1.2 oz/1000. Hoping for the best!

Just got inside from applying the bullet proof strat. After getting crushed by rust last year, I wasnt gonna let it wreak havoc this year.

Do I sense a LCN Millennial Farmer collaboration coming up 😏👍

Hi Allyn! I am glad that I found you :) I see that you use that Scotts's Edgeguard quite a bit in your videos and I like that because I have that same spreader. I am a rookie, but later on hope to upgrade to the big leagues. Any tips on how to avoid stripping with that spreader? I hear to do double passes at half the rate. Thank you and keep up the excellent work!

That reminds me of a book I read, Brown Spots on the Lawn by Hu Flung Doo!

Yea alan..just layed down 3 bags of the disease ex yesterday..learned bout it from the facebook page..

Awesome Video even the pic quality is just Pro content!

yep

Could over-using preventative cause fungus with immunity to those measures or reduce the grass's natural ability to fend off fungus? Just curious, thanks!

8th grade all over again! 😂😂😂. I was rolling! Great info!

Thanks brother, I subscribed, I have True Green and I am better prepared to talk with them.

Have you checked out Headway G? It's a granular that has both in the same bag. Not the cheapest, but easy to put down in one spreader pass.

I love it when my father in law tells me “if you mow your lawn low you’re just gonna have nothing but diseases.” (Cool season lawn) Well here I m doing my homework on that because I’m sure he’s full of it yet again lol.

I have an experiment I am attempting.. dollar spot/ summer patch and brown patch is active in small areas.. I didn’t pre treat. And the disease is actively running its course. So I will use both group 3 and 11 and treat one area. The other area I will pull plugs, then mix a systemic liquid. And a combination of granular fungicide with “starter “ fertilizer. I guarantee it will work. But I don’t have a you tube channel and nobody cares.. maybe you Can attempt it? It seems like it would work

If I heard you right for the dollar spot fungus I can just let it grow out? I think I got some fungus on my new sod from over watering. I don’t want to damage my new lawn. Are these fungicides safe on new turf? Thanks!

Hi I have a question, last year I redid my lawn all new perennial ryegrass. Now I live in Long Island New York. And this year my lawn has been nothing but trouble. Between watering and I got a fungus. And I treated is with Scott’s and now bio shield. And now that killed it. There is more brown. I going crazy. So Iam going to reseed. I don’t want this next year. If can help thank you.

Allyn, thank you so much for this timely video! I did a spring lawn renovation up in central NC (6a) and it's been growing in amazingly but I just started to see these strange brown spots. Since I'm subscribed to your channel I saw this video and I realized with all the rain followed by cloud cover it was perfect conditions for lawn fungus to arise. So I will be THROWIN 'ER DOWN later today with these products! You rock, dude!

how would you fertilize your lawn that has a fruit tree in the middle of your lawn and how would you fertilize the tree. Do you use different types of fertilizer? Im not sure if you've already addressed this question before. thank you

Man I wish I had done this.... I have new sod Saint Augustine grass and have issues with Grey Leaf Spot. I put down some f stop a week ago which is a group 3 but I didn't think about the double attack. Now I am going to buy some disease x to help get my grass back in order. That Grey Leaf Spot took over fast! Went from perfect lawn to halfway good lawn :(. At what point would you suggest more fertilizer? Don't want to feed the disease!

What do you do after the application of these products and your disease is currently present in your lawn? Do you have to put down grass seed to fix the dead zones?

Heritage G fungicide label doesn't mention watering it in anywhere. The label doesn't say not to water it in too. Heritage G is the same fungicide ingredient Azoxystrobin as the Big box store fungicide in the video but a lot more expensive. Does it need to be watered in? I did water in propiconazole because the label said I need to but not the Azoxystrobin. Hope its not wasted.

Great advice! Thanks

Talk about perfect timing for a topic!! My neighbor just gave me a bag of Jonathan Greene Fungus Control. I looked up the ingredient and it's a Group 1 fungicide. I already had a bag of Scott's Disease X. Will the group 1 Jonathan Greene work fine in addition to the Scott's? Oh, and I was going to ask, do you send stickers when someone orders from your store? Thanks again for the video and all your help!!!

Like the videos,has helped me a lot!

Centipede man here. Hope my next yard is centipede.

Kind of hard to apply disease x because the prills are so small. Really does feel like nothing is coming out compared to most fertilizers and milo in particular. I don't trust spreader settings, you know when you know.

I know I seen that movie before, is it Animal house?

I would love a video about bermuda grass in TX I can find any video talking about west texas bermuda grass care

Hey man, do you have a video on how to handle dog pee spots?

Nice hat!

Very clear explanation and a bunch of precious info. Can I mix Grub curative granules and Grubex at the same application day? Thank you

Home Depot does price match amazon but will beat by 10% any competitors. Thanks for the video. We have had a lot of wet weather. It was hot here in Ohio but cooled off.

Very helpful to this new home new lawn owner in Tennessee.

Hi... Thank you so much for this video!! Awesome video!!! Question for you, how long should I wait after applying Scotts DiseaseEX on my lawn and still don't see no improvement or shall I say speed the process, can I add the BioAdvanced liquid to my lawn?

I am have the spreader and have been getting stripping. I have looked it over and it seems like it’s throwing the material evenly? Have you ever heard of this and could it be a problem with my lawn or something else with the machine? Pretty sure I need to fix my thatch problem so would that do it if the thatch isn’t allowing the fert to penetrate... not sure why I would get darker green lines though. Thanks for any help

Allyn, I get brown patch yearly in my tall fescue. Right now my yard looks really good. I ordered both product's, should I use both, one after the other, and water in good, or use one and wait a couple weeks to use the other ? Thank you, Johnny