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Thread for general lawn care. Post your issue and get some help.


Need some help. I have Bermuda that is full sun or very limited shade. One half of the yard is super green and one half the yard is mostly Brown. Looks dormant but if you look really close you can see a tiny bit of green.

Seems really early to go dormant and the part of the lawn that has more shade is a beautiful green so I'm wondering if it got too hot or too dry and killed it. Did I cut it too close?

I'm also seeing some tiny brown piles of soil. Maybe some kind of pest. It is much smaller than a fire ant next and doesn't really look like ants anyway.

This is Raleigh
 
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gtyellowjacket said:
Need some help. I have Bermuda that is full sun or very limited shade. One half of the yard is super green and one half the yard is mostly Brown. Looks dormant but if you look really close you can see a tiny bit of green.

Seems really early to go dormant and the part of the lawn that has more shade is a beautiful green so I'm wondering if it got too hot or too dry and killed it. Did I cut it too close?

I'm also seeing some tiny brown piles of soil. Maybe some kind of pest. It is much smaller than a fire ant next and doesn't really look like ants anyway.

This is Raleigh
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I'm in Apex and have something similar going on right now. One side of the driveway is today Bermuda in mostly full sun and grows well, this side looks like it's gone dormant. The other side is tifgrande Bermuda and gets more shade, it's still green.

I have landscapers treat my lawn monthly and they put the wrong chemical on in July which burned all my Bermuda and it's struggled to come back strong.

The side that's gone dormant had been bouncing nicely until this week.
 
My suspicion would be army worms. Something similar just happened to my lawn and my yard guys say that's what it was. They'll eat your whole yard in a hurry, and this is the time of year when they're a problem in NC.
 
Google armyworms. Take a little dish soap, make a nice soapy solution and water in an area or two and wait a minute. My guess you will see armyworms squirming around. Need some granular talstar to control.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Need some help. I have Bermuda that is full sun or very limited shade. One half of the yard is super green and one half the yard is mostly Brown. Looks dormant but if you look really close you can see a tiny bit of green.

Seems really early to go dormant and the part of the lawn that has more shade is a beautiful green so I'm wondering if it got too hot or too dry and killed it. Did I cut it too close?

I'm also seeing some tiny brown piles of soil. Maybe some kind of pest. It is much smaller than a fire ant next and doesn't really look like ants anyway.

This is Raleigh
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Thanks to all who said army worms. I think you guys nailed it. For anyone else having a similar issue, I did the soap test described by this guy.



I came up with this. Also thanks to anyone else who came up with ideas.
 

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Yep, full grown ones at that. Good news is your lawn will be fine next year but not until then. Need to treat and odds are they are an issue going forward starting in mid august.they tend to infest the same lawns year after year
 
Faucette said:
Yep, full grown ones at that. Good news is your lawn will be fine next year but not until then. Need to treat and odds are they are an issue going forward starting in mid august.they tend to infest the same lawns year after year
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That stinks but at least figured out what it was. They did a number on my lawn. The guy in the video had a green lawn with brown patches. I've got a totally brown lawn with very few green patches.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Need some help. I have Bermuda that is full sun or very limited shade. One half of the yard is super green and one half the yard is mostly Brown. Looks dormant but if you look really close you can see a tiny bit of green.

Seems really early to go dormant and the part of the lawn that has more shade is a beautiful green so I'm wondering if it got too hot or too dry and killed it. Did I cut it too close?

I'm also seeing some tiny brown piles of soil. Maybe some kind of pest. It is much smaller than a fire ant next and doesn't really look like ants anyway.

This is Raleigh
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Can you post pictures?

My neighbor has lots of fungus which made most of his yard look brown. He treated it and it was green in a few weeks.

You also have to water pretty regularly. My grass looks better than any of my neighbors, primarily because I have a sprinkler system and water routinely.

Of course, I also treat it regularly. Fertilizer, fungicide, etc.

My builder put down two different types of Bermuda so I have a patch on one side of the house that looks very different. I'm hoping over time the better grass takes over.

I have another neighbor that really takes care of his lawn, he's mentioned arm worms to several other neighbors.
 
Maybe we can make this the general lawn / yard thread.

So I have a place to post pictures of my trees and bushes. :love:
 
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