[JollyGreen]

I fertilized with 16-4-8 on Memorial Day and will admit I may have overdone it slightly but had good rain for a week after so I figured I was still good to go. I did a mixture spread with fert, insect, and some spare brown spot preventer I had laying around. I noticed I am starting to get these brown areas popping up randomly. Overall the yard is filling in nicely for year 1 but I can't tell what is going on here. Is this fert burn? Would that be popping up this late? Or am I starting to get brown patch? I have an event at my house at the end of the month so I am trying to be extra precautious.

 

[FATC1TY]

Got a dog?

 

[JollyGreen]

I do but I leash him to the front side to pee in one spot. He poops in the back but that shouldn't be the issue

 

[Spammage]

I do but I leash him to the front side to pee in one spot. He poops in the back but that shouldn't be the issue

But does the wife...?

 

[JollyGreen]

She learned her lesson the first few times......she is on board now. She hasn't taken him back there since last year.

 

[Spammage]

SMDH, my wife will let ours out "whenever I (she) want", but then will complain about every imperfection.

@JollyGreen I don't think that looks like brown patch, but pull at the "dead" shoots to get a better idea. If they pull out relatively easy with a black slime at the bottom, then I would recommend treating. If they don't exhibit those characteristics, then look for other causes.

 

[JollyGreen]

I took these pictures this morning. The grass pulls similar to the rest of the grass, the blades are just burned looking. There is green coming up through the brown as you can see below. It almost looks like burn I just wonder if when I did my last fertilizer spread I had some heavy areas that got a little too much nitrogen and it slow released in these areas. Not sure just trying to come up with a guess at this point.

 

[Delmarva Keith]

Really hard to tell. On the close up I definitely see a few lesions with dark margins on some of the healthy blades that sure look like brown patch, but not many of them overall. The completely dead small spots lin the earlier posted pictures look like dollar spot, or dog urine, or fert burn. Given all the totality of all of what you've said, my guess would be fert burn.

 

[Spammage]

@JollyGreen not brown patch. Have you sprayed anything recently? It looks like it's mainly the tips that look scorched.

 

[JollyGreen]

No, last I spreaded anything was Memorial Day. I put down 16-4-8, insect and grub killer, and brown patch preventer. I got a wild hair and put it all in one spreader like Connor does on his channel. I felt like I was laying 6 coats down when it was all said and done there was so much in the hopper. I just opened it 1/4 of the way and made multiple passes. These spots are just weird. Seems like every week another one pops up. But when I cut you don't notice it as much.

 

[Suburban Jungle Life]

Are you sure this isn't brown patch or some type of fungus? Turning brown with a dark outline?

Your pic:


https://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/diseases-in-turf/brown-patch-in-turf/

 

[Spammage]

@Suburban Jungle Life it could definitely be fungal, just not brown patch (large patch on warm season grasses).

 

[Suburban Jungle Life]

@Suburban Jungle Life it could definitely be fungal, just not brown patch (large patch on warm season grasses).

Kind of silly there are two different names for the same thing. Rhizoctonia solani...

 

[JollyGreen]

I will have to check it out when I get back from my trip. I guess it's round 2 with fungal treatment. If it's fungal than it's completely random around the yard.