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Dollar Spot Disease in Lawns. Advice on Treatment.

Fortunately Dollar Spot Disease is quite easily treated - and prevented - for it is mainly a disease associated with Fescue Grasses which are added to most lawn grass mixtures and turf mixtures these days. There is an increasing tendency for grass seed suppliers to include Creeping Red Fescue in many of their mixtures, so Dollar Spot Disease could well become a little more common than in past. I noted recently that out of seven lawn mixtures available on a garden centre shelf, five contained Creeping Red Fescue.

Recognition of Dollar Spot.

Dollar Spot disease starts as small circular patches of dead grass - usually around a couple of inches across. On neglected grass that is not regularly cut, these spots may show up with larger spots in the turf. Sometimes in early morning dew, a white fungus growth can be visibly in the spots. The spots can spread in an untreated lawn, so treatment with a Carbendazim spray quite early in the outbreak, is important.

Again, a good lawn maintenance and care regime is quite important, together with brushing early dews off the grass in affected areas. Removal of Thatch, as a part of your maintenance schedule will do much to prevent the Dollar Spot Disease.