This same fungus also causes brown patch in cool season turfgrasses.
Zoysia grass brown patch treatment.
Excessive moisture around the grass greatly contributes to problems with brown patch and other fungal diseases.
Brown patch is identified by a brown ring encircling a green patch of grass.
Common zoysia grass problems.
Spp particularly large patch is the most chronic.
Brown patch is a fungal disease that occurs during hot humid growing conditions.
Zoysia brown patch areas often grow together like a reverse pangea quickly forming irregular patches of brown blighted grass sometimes 20 feet or more in diameter.
The orange border consists of newly infected plants where the lower leaves are just starting to die as the fungus invades and kills the.
The patches have an orange fringe around the perimeter which indicates the disease is active.
The infection starts small but it can quickly take over the entire lawn.
However zoysia grass problems do pop up on occasion most often from zoysia diseases like brown patch.
Although relatively free from most pests and diseases zoysia grass isn t without its faults.
Brown patch is the most common disease that plagues zoysia.
And economically important disease of both st.
Augustinegrass and zoysiagrass in texas figures 1 and 2.
Zoysia is an easy care warm season grass that is highly versatile and drought tolerant making it popular for many lawns.
The most severe cases of zbp occur on turf that is receiving closely spaced summer irrigation.