"Peter H" wrote:
"Scotty" wrote in message
...
Every winter I get a type of winter mold that kills off large patches
of
my
grass. Its is a sun and shade mixture for the northeast. I understand
how
to
prevent the mold by putting down expensive amounts of systemic
fungicide just before the grass goes dormant. If I don't put it down as
I didn't
last
year the mold returns and my lawn is very damaged. I want to know how
to cure it once and for all. Even if its an expensive cure, in the long
run
it
would be cheap compared to the 120 $ application of fungicide every
fall. Thanks a bunch William

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The sick in soul insist it is humanity that is sick, and they are the
surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sick
room.
And
when they get humanity strapped on the operating table, they operate on
it with an axe.



I suspect that the cure for your problem lies more with what you do with
your lawn in the summer than in the fall or winter. The cure won't cost
more, in fact it is cheaper.

My suggestion would be to avoid all fertilization of the lawn in the
summer months and keep the watering to a very minimum. Make certain that
your nitrogen applications for the entire season are equal to or less
than 4 pounds/ 1,000 square feet. ( that's nitrogen, not fertilizer). For
your last cut in the fall take it down lower than your regular cut. Get
it down to about one inch.

Good luck,

Peter H

Might work, but his lawn will look dormant all summer unless it rains
quite a bit. That's a hard sell when it can be fixed by applying money.