How To Remove Grass Fungus

The season when grass flourishes has entered the fray and you are livid at the thought of enjoying the luscious scenery of your grass yard where your family can spend quality time to play and have fun. Unfortunately, as soon as you go outside to gaze at your grass, it seems that mushrooms, molds, and fungus have invaded and latched on to the grass. You decide to go back into your house to lie back down on your couch for another hibernation process. Don’t do it. Get back out and start working on your hard battling these infestations with several tricks up your sleeve.

1. Cut the grass. As soon as you notice that patches of your yard have fallen to fungus, whip out your grass cutter and prime your mower as you will be going to war. Snow and rain allow grass to grow and as it grows high and long, air does not get into the soil to dry it. Moist soil is the perfect incubator to cultivate molds, mushrooms, and fungus. To prevent this from happening, make sure to always cut your grass short by using a mower or grass cutter. Now, since you already have grass fungus all around, use the tools at your disposal and cut the hell out of your grass. Cutting it short will allow the soil and grass to dry naturally.
2. Weed out the mushrooms. The proliferation and spread of grass fungus is heightened when there are mushrooms up and about around your yard. Mushrooms produce spores that will carry a variety of fungi that can infest other parts of your yard. As soon as you see mushrooms on your yard, remove them immediately. Mushrooms will usually sprout up after a season of snow or heavy rains.
3. Remove the dead grass. Another way to remove fungus is by raking the dead grass with a metal rake. Initially, you will only see patches of dead grass due to fungus. If you leave it be, the fungus can proliferate to the other healthy patches of grass that will leave your yard dying. Rake the dead grass until you can only see fresh soil on that patch. Place the dead grass in a bag and throw it away. For the patches of soil left bare, sod and fertilize it to encourage the reseeding and grass growth in that particular area.
4. Apply fungicide. Even before a fungus invasion, you should properly care for your grass and protect it from these pests. Apply some penetrant fungicide on your grass. For the best effect, apply the fungicide in early spring. This fungicide will seep into the grass from the leaves down to the roots, which is an effective preventive remedy against grass fungus proliferation. Use contact and systemic types of fungicide if the grass fungus problem is present and existing. These will kill fungi on contact.

Grass fungus will hardly ever appear if you constantly work on your grass yard by cutting it often to let the moist soil dry out. Applying fungicide can help you fight off an infestation immensely as well.