Every summer in Sydney, Australia we can look forward to our fair share of hot weather with wet and dry periods depending on local prevailing conditions.
It goes without saying that all Australian lawns and turf grasses (warm season grasses including couch, kikuyu, buffalo, zoysia and so on) will suffer from diseases (fungal attacks), insect damage and heat stress depending on the prevailing Summer conditions.
Generally, if the conditions are more wet, we will see more lawns damaged by fungal attacks. Obviously, there will be a greater incidence of fungal attacks with conducive conditions - those being warm and wet weather conditions.
On the other hand, if conditions are hot and dry (that is, when there has been little heavy rain fall for several weeks), then any lawn insect damage that has already occurred will become obvious with dead patches appearing in the lawn.
We notice that if we have a hot summer with regular rain fall (that is, with around 15-25 millimetres rain falling say every 7 to 10 days) then even though the insects (curl grubs, for example) have damaged the turf grass root system, this is not apparent on top - that is, the turf grass will look undamaged to the untrained eye.
With these wetter conditions, however, there is a greater chance of lawns suffering from one of many fungal diseases that attack the many different turf grasses.
Just a quick note regarding heat or drought stress to lawns.
We recommend people provide heavy but infrequent water to their lawns and turf grasses. Heavy but infrequent watering (25mm of rainfall or watering every week or two) promotes deep root growth. Deep root systems make lawns drought tolerant. This heavy but infrequent watering (as experienced in the coastal areas of Australia) comes in the form of our rainfall. So it stands to reason that we don't need to water our lawns.
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Or for more specific information on Lawn Insect Control, disease and watering go to: http://www.LawnGreen.com.au/beat_the_water_restrictions , http://www.LawnGreen.com.au/lawn_green_lawn_care_and_granular_insect_control_treatment or to http://www.LawnGreen.com.au/lawn_green_lawn_care_and_turf_insect_damage
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