Lawn insect pests – On the season of summer, this is one of the major problems that lawns do suffer. We can see those caterpillar that destroys the lawn that is known as the “Lawn army worm”. Where they usually attack the front part of the lawn like an army. They consume destructively the grass leaves thus, leaving a big brown patch on night time because during the day, they tend to hide under those falling leaves or any shed that could protect them from the sun.
Tip: You can trap them by putting a damp cardboard on the edge of the portion where they usually invade on night.

Black beetles – When you see a big dead patches of lawn and see birds grasping at the soil, this is the sign that the lawn is being attacked by an adult black beetles, their favorite food to munch is your grass leaves. Also, on their early stage,where they are called curl grubs, they have the habit of chewing the roots that will destroy your lawn and treating this kind of beetle is very hard.
Tip: Baythroid could be effective to prevent those beetles from your lawn. Another is pour a tub of water with soap into the lawn to flush out pests in the area.

Lawn Diseases – Tracing or distinguishing lawn diseases is very hard but having a round patch on your lawn is a sure sign of a disease being suffered by the lawn most of the fungal diseases could be usually determine in the morning. Also, avoid cutting your lawn very short during summer season.
Tip: You can treat this with a Mancozeb and feed it with a high nitrogen fertilizer. Water your lawn in the morning so it could dry fast.

Before the season of summer comes, we should start to think of the best things to do to bring back our lawn to life. Having a green, healthy lawn could help us feel good , relax and enjoy more the summer days. In this goal, here are important tips to ponder for summer lawn care:

1. Raise the mowing height. - During summer making a raise of your mowing height will do good for your lawn. For this, scalping would be lesser because scalping your lawn, will help control weeds on your lawn thus, it will be harder for them to invade in your lawn. This could help your lawn grow more healthy and this could promote in showing more leaf blades from your lawn that will help show a greener lawn and will give chance for the roots to grow deeper, for the lawn to survive during the period of dry weather.

2. Work on High traffic areas. - You know where these high traffic area be located in your yard. If you see a low energy grass on the front walk off the patio or in the area of high traffic, think of something to do to lift those grasses up. You can give them an ample amount of fertilizer they needed to recover and a little of nitrogen could be the best remedy for this. Then, try to put some crumb rubber in the area. Crumb Rubber is taken from used tires. For it to soak up the traffic instead of soil in the specific area but should as well be absorbent enough for the water to go through and most important, for the lawn to grow more healthy.

3. Summer Broadleaf weed control. - The products that has carfentrozone. Summer broadleaf weeds are recommended to vanish that contains same herbicides that could control weeds on the season of spring and fall. Carfentrozone will flame up the top-growth of the broadleaf weeds such as oxalis, purslane and speedwell with no untoward effect on grass. Likewise with the crabgrass that has quinclorac that is under the registered name Drive that will work on matured crabgrass plants on its period of growth.

4. Making a Green up effect on your lawn for special occasions. - Since summer is the best season for big and special occassions it is always an asset for homes to have a green lawn. One best technique to green up your lawn in summer is the light dose of urea. This is affordable and could bring a green looking effect for your lawn in a span of 2-3 days. As long as it has an ample amount of water. This could be done in the middle of your regular application of fertilizer to regenerate your lawn.

5. Control beetle grubs from lawn. - If you are in the area where there are bettle grubs this could destroy your summer lawn the best precautions is to apply Imidacloprid (Merit or Grub-Ex) on the first week of july to control them. This kind of insecticide is very kind to almost all of the good insects in the yard.