Common Lawn Disease in Spring/Summer
Ascochyta leaf blight is a fungal disease targeting grasses like Kentucky bluegrass, Ryegrass and Texas hybrid bluegrass. Ascochyta can be a big problem in lawns after a cool, wet spring followed by hot, dry summer months. Every year this stress induced fungal disease shows up on leaves of new and established turf grasses. During the Ascochyta outbreak there is often irregular patches of straw colored grass throughout the lawn. Up close leaves of the grass look bleached. Colo