Healthy turf adds monetary and aesthetic value to the property, improves air quality, dampens noises, prevents water runoff and helps reduce injuries to children and others playing in the yard.
Proper management is of utmost importance in maintaining turf and preventing diseases.
Most of the time, the environment is the key reason diseases develop, since potential turf pathogens are virtually always present. So, the most effective ways to control diseases are to change the environment to make it less favorable for the growth of disease-causing organisms. Proper fertilization, for instance, is important. Brown patch and several other turf diseases are caused by excessive nitrogen. Other diseases, such as dollar spot, are favored by low nitrogen fertility.