Suzie wrote:
I've been told by my garden centre guy that I've got rust on my lawn.
He's given me ant killer as he reckons this is the cause - not over
watering or lack of nutrients.
I've followed the instructions yet have seen no improvement (over 2
months) Nor have I seen many ants!
The symptoms are as follows, the blades of the grass get small marks on
them and then seem to lose their colour until finally dying.
I have two variants of lawn and only the Kikuyu lawn seems affected
whereas the Buffalo isn't effected at all.

Does this sound like lawn rust? Any idea as to what I can do to over
come the problem. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Suzie.

Suzie, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news but you MAY have a
fungus disease known as "kikuyu yellows". As a retired grazier whose
improved pastures were kikuyu I have never heard of 'rust' on kikuyu
BUT.... it is susceptible to kikuyu yellows for which there is no cure.
It comes from apparently nowhere, kills off a lot of grass and then goes
away. The thing to watch is to NOT walk on the yellow patches and then
on the unaffected lawn, you'll only spread the spores all over. We had
to remove all stock from affected paddocks and keep our fingers crossed.
Kikuyu yellows is becoming all to common these days. When I was a kid it
was said that kikuyu was indestructable. Well, kikuyu yellows can wipe
out acres of the stuff in only a few months in a bad infestation.

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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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