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We hope you enjoyed our latest series of blog posts about making your grass greener and keeping your lawn healthy!

We know how frustrating maintaining a lawn can sometimes be. You try to take care of your lawn so your family can enjoy it, but sometimes Mother Nature has her own agenda!

We can help! We wrote these tips show you how to identify the most common problems you can encounter when trying to keep your lawn healthy and green:

1. Start with a Healthy, Green Lawn
2. Florida Irrigation: How Much Should I Water My Lawn?
3. Common Broadleaf Weeds That Invade Your Lawn
4. Crabgrass and Goosegrass: Grassy Weeds
5. Sedge Weeds in Your Lawn
6. Chinch Bugs Causing Brown Lawn Spots?
7. Sod Webworms in Your Lawn?
8. Lawn Grubs Causing Brown Spots?
9. Gray Leaf Spot on Grass
10. Do You Have Brown Spots on Your Lawn?
11. Three Tips for Better Shrub Care

You can read each tip as a blog article, or you can download them all in one convenient free eBook: 11 Tricks to Make Sure Your Grass Is Always Greener.

Chinch bug and nymphs. Courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

This is the sixth of 11 Tricks to Make Sure Your Grass Is Always Greener, a free eBook. We’ll be posting a new trick on this blog every other week.

If you’ve noticed that your lawn is spotted with patches of brown, even when the grass is being adequately watered, you might have a chinch bug problem. These hungry pests feed on your grass, creating dead areas where the infestation exists.

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