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Transcript: Yellow Grass
Everybody likes to have a green healthy lawn, but sometimes our lawns start to turn yellow. Whether in large areas, or in some cases, small patches like this where you have yellow right next or otherwise healthy green turf.The way to fix the problem is to first determine what the cause is. If you’ll pick a few leaves of grass and hold them up to the light, you can determine what’s causing it to turn yellow.
These are healthy green normal leaves. Right next to them are some long streaks of green and yellow. That’s caused by iron deficiently. Iron deficiently is not necessarily related to a lack of iron, but just the fact the iron is tied up due to high ph or high phosphorous levels in your soil. Avoid fertilizers that are really high in phosphorous. You can fix it with an iron supplement for a temporary fix, or if you’ll aerate and provide about a third of an inch of compost over your lawn, it will help build the root system and help grow yourself out of an iron deficiently problem over a longer term.
Another common cause is St Augustine decline virus. And that shows up as splotches of green and yellow; very different from iron deficiently. St Augustine decline virus is in the plant and there’s no cure for it. It doesn’t kill your grass, but it weakens it. The solution to that is to plug in a resistent variety like Raleigh and let it take over that area again.
So with proper identification and then proper steps to remedy the problem, you can have a healthy green lawn.
With your common sense tip for a green healthy lawn, I’m Skip Richter.
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July 6, 2006