Lawn Disease & Fungus Control in SADDLE SPRINGS, Thompson's Station, TN

Here’s what I see happen every year in Saddle Springs and across Thompson's Station. You notice a few brown circles or patches in June. You think it’s just heat stress from all that gravel mixed into our construction soils, so you run the sprinklers more. That extra water is the worst thing you can do. It fuels the two main diseases that are inevitable here, brown patch and dollar spot. They spread through the moisture on the blades, carried downhill by water and across the lawn by mowers. That's the point where most homeowners call me, when the lawn is a uniform brown. They’ve been trying to figure it out for years. The issue is always timing. You have to start a preventive fungicide program in May, a full month before you see any damage, because the label, which is the law, says to use it preventively. By June, it's too late for prevention, and that's when you'll get the door hangers from other companies trying to sell you a cure for a problem they could have prevented. That’s why I don’t offer a lower-tier plan without fungicides. My one standard of care for every yard includes the necessary fungicides, because in our subtropical humidity, with dew on the grass every night and temperatures above 75 degrees, it’s not a question of if you get these diseases, but when. I structure my program around combination products that treat for that whole host of diseases at once, preventively. Removing that fungal pressure means your tall fescue in Saddle Springs can actually use its resources to tolerate summer stress, whether that’s a week you miss watering, kids playing on it, or the shallow, hot soil conditions common in our newer neighborhoods. The goal is to get through our toughest months with a lawn that’s alive and healthy, not spending its energy fighting off a preventable fungus.