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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.

There’s a fungus lurking, waiting to destroy your lawn. This fungus is known by many names. Its most obvious one is “Brown Patch Disease,” which is a descriptive name. It’s also known as “Large Patch” or by its scientific name, “Rhizoctonia Blight.”

This is the tenth 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.

The most frequent victim of this fungus is the St. Augustine grass that is common in Florida lawns. Unfortunately, Brown Patch Disease can also affect several varieties of warm-season turf grass.

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Sod webworm. Courtesy of Flickr user WallTea.

This is the seventh 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.

Worms aren’t usually a threat to a lawn. Most worms can live in harmony with the rest of the tiny creatures in your grass. Unfortunately, some worms are less kind.

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