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How To Control Grubs in the Lawn
How To Control Grubs in the Lawn
Being as we are now firmly into the spring and things are warming up across the country, it’s time to think about grubs in the lawn and preventing the damage they can impose.I am predicting that this will be a pretty bad year for grubs since we had a very mild winter across much of the country.One thing that a harsh, deeply frozen winter will do is kill off some of the population - but this year, we did not get that and in fact, just the opposite: a fairly mil...
Brown Spots In The Lawn | This Is Why You Dig First
I saw it as often as I can - especially in later summer leading into fall - if you see brown spots in your lawn, the very first thing you should do is dig and look for insects.
In this case, being as it's later summer, the primary two insects you are looking for are grubs and sod webworm. Here is a video showing you the life cycle of grubs. Here is another one where I found them in a cool season lawn in NW Indiana. And here is yet another where I found them in my own lawn and suffered damage ...
Fall Brown Spots Could It Be Grubs
What’s up y’all, hope you are having a great week!Now that most of you cool season folks are out of your heatwave and actually getting into fall time, the emails on “how come areas of my lawn are not greening up?” are starting to come in.In this case, my first reaction is always to get down in the brown spots, especially along the edges where the green fades to brown, and pull up the lawn.If it peels up in chunks with no roots or can be rolled back like a carpet, chances are if you keep diggi...
