Your lawn is a living organism that requires constant care and attention. One of the most significant threats to its health is the presence of lawn diseases. These diseases can cause severe damage, leading to unsightly patches and even the death of your grass. Fortunately, you can keep this from happening with preventative lawn disease control. This treatment is designed to stop diseases before they start and spread on your lawn in Northeast Georgia, keeping them from ever becoming an issue. It should be applied in the spring as many fungi start to become active during this season, which could develop into a disease. Without a preventative lawn disease control treatment, you risk your lawn falling victim to a disease, which can lead to costly curative treatments and possibly lawn care services to help it recover.

How Preventative Lawn Disease Control Treatments Work

Preventative lawn disease control treatments are designed to stop diseases before they start. They work by creating a protective barrier on your lawn that prevents the growth and spread of fungal spores. Keeping these spores from spreading and becoming active prevents them from developing into a disease, making them a non-issue for your lawn in the first place. It helps to protect your lawn from a wide range of diseases, such as brown patch, zoysia patch, and spring dead spot. By preventing the onset of these diseases, you can keep your lawn healthy and vibrant throughout the growing season.

Why should you apply preventative lawn disease control treatments in the spring?

Grass in Bethlehem, GA, with brown patches.

Spring is the ideal time to apply preventative lawn disease control treatments because it's before the peak growing season. During this time, your lawn is recovering from the winter and gearing up for the summer. By applying a preventative treatment in the spring, you can give your lawn a head start on the growing season and protect it from diseases before they have a chance to take hold. They are also applied in the spring, before the onset of hot, humid weather, because most lawn diseases thrive during these conditions.

It's also important to note that preventative treatments should be applied in the fall as well. Some diseases develop in the fall, and this treatment will help to protect your lawn from diseases that thrive during the cooler months. This way, you can ensure that your grass is healthy during dormancy and when spring rolls around again.

What happens if you skip a preventative lawn disease treatment in the spring?

If you skip the spring preventative lawn disease control treatment, you risk your lawn falling victim to lawn diseases. Without the protective barrier provided by the treatment, fungal spores can take hold and cause damage to your grass. This can lead to unsightly patches, dead spots, and even the death of your entire lawn.

If your lawn does fall victim to a disease, you'll need to apply curative lawn disease control treatments to eliminate it. Curative treatments are designed to eliminate existing lawn diseases, but they can be expensive and time-consuming, and they will not reverse any damage already inflicted on your turf. This means you may need to invest in lawn care services to help your lawn recover from the damage caused by the disease. By preventing diseases before they start, you can save yourself the hassle and expense of dealing with them later on.

Lawn fertilization, aeration, and overseeding can help your disease-stricken lawn recuperate from a disease.

Call us today to sign up for our lawn disease control service!

At Solid Green Lawn & Landscape, we offer a lawn disease control service that includes preventative treatments applied several times a year to stop the development of diseases. Our team provides preventative lawn disease packages for two different grass types: zoysia grass and fescue.

If your lawn is already affected by a disease, we also offer curative treatments to clear the issue. We offer this service to commercial and residential properties, along with HOAs, in Bethlehem, Monroe, Winder, Statham, Hoschton, and surrounding areas in Northeast Georgia. Call us today at (770) 380-2009 to sign up for this service!