Tag Archives: Fungal Disease

Identifying and treating fungal disease is an important aspect of modern lawn care. Lawn grass can become infected by a number of fungal infections all through the year.

Fungal disease on lawns

Red thread (laetisaria fuciformis) is the most common fungal disease. It usually occurs on UK lawns when the weather is warm and damp, although it can occur at other times of the year too.

Fusarium is one of the most damaging lawn diseases. It can actually kill the grass and can infect lawns over the winter when we may not be as vigilant.

Other diseases which to look out for include rust, pink patch, dollar spot and other rarer lawn diseases.

For more information about UK lawn fungal diseases have a look through these following blog posts.

Is your lawn infected with rust disease?

Rust on grass

Recently, I have observed one or two of cases of my maintained lawns becoming infected with lawn rust disease. So I thought I’d explain a little about this disease and why grass in the UK is currently susceptible to this common infection. What is rust disease? Sometimes known as leaf rust or lawn rust, rust disease is a… Read More »