"Stubby" wrote in message
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Bill Stock wrote:
Our lawn has several large dead spots. One is about 4' across on the
sunny part of the lawn, another is about 2' across on the shady part of
the lawn and a third consists of a bunch or small circles that have not
YET joined together to form one big dead spot. These spots started
appearing about two months ago or perhaps more correctly never recovered
from the dry spring like the rest of the lawn. I fertilized in late May
and did not start any watering until mid June.

I have the same problem. I don't water at all because the Town doesn't
permit it. I put down fertilizer twice and real lime once. From my
reading there is a common bug that eats the grass roots and spread out
radially. You can peel up the dead turf like a carpet. I dusted with a
bit of Sevin, but I believe any insecticide would do.

There is a chance this is a fungus (Fairy Rings). I'll spray with some
fungicide if it doesn't start recovering soon. In then end, scrape it up,
add some seed an starter fertilizer and wait for Fall rain.

Time to turn a usless lawn into a garden..How much more fun to
tend a garden where the colors change and brighten the day
than green grass that requires nothing so much as mowing,
pesticides, valuable additional water, for what?

alice