Three major insect pests can cause dead areas in the lawn. Chinch bugs, mole crickets and sod webworms can infest St. Augustine type grasses. Chinch bugs do not affect Bahiagrass but the other insects do. Insects are seasonal and defensive action should be take when they are most likely to attack.

Be willing to accept a less than perfect lawn. Respond to the brown spots by hand watering not by watering the entire yard. Check the coverage of sprinklers and look for broken lines or heads and clogged nozzles. Also check for disease or insect problems. Not all brown spots are caused by water problems.

ANSWER: White spots on the nail is perhaps the most common nail disorder and are called leukonychia, which literally means "whiteness of the nails." There are many types of nail whiteness, some of which indicate serious illness; fortunately, by far the most common cause of white spots on the nail is minor injury to the nail matrix. Caused by trauma or minor injury to the nail matrix, these spots will grow out from the matrix with the nail plate and eventually disappear.

These most likely are due to lack of water in an extreme drought or chinch bugs. Todd Valley Farms buffalograss varieties require about 1/4 the amount of water of normal turfgrass. If your Buffalograss is under drought stress the grass blades will get a purplish color. Watch for this. Water deep to replenish the soil with moisture and the purple color will go away. If you fail to see this sign of stress and your buffalograss goes brown, do not panic.

YES - Female dogs, particularly large female dogs leave a large quantity of urine in one spot. The salt in the urine burns the grass. Hybrid bermuda grass normally recovers within two weeks. To prevent urine burn, give your dog METHIGEL, a natural vitamin available through a veterinarian.

Lightly rake the surface inch of soil to remove dead debris and properly prepare the area for seeding. Select a grass seed that is the same type as already growing in your lawn. Lightly apply seed to the soil surface and gently pack to firm the seed into the soil. Apply a light layer of straw or seeding mulch to encourage rapid seed germination. Water lightly until the seed has fully emerged. Do not apply crabgrass preventer to newly seeded areas of your lawn.

The key is to blot up as much of the foreign matter as you can. Then flush the spot with a professional spot neutralizer. Now take a clean towel and blot, don't scrub, the spot. Call a professional carpet cleaner as soon as convenient to prevent changes in the appearance of your carpet.

Answer: As in drug courts, only include funding for any part of the program that specifically pertains to prevention, intervention or treatment as previously defined. Answer: The DDMP function is primarily for law enforcement and would not be counted in this exercise. You may want to keep track of law enforcement activities such as these that may have an indirect impact on substance abuse for your own purposes.

Your lawn may have a disease called Spring Dead Spot. This disease is very difficult to control. Rake the dead areas to encourage fill in from healthy grass plants growing adjacent to the spot.

This could be the result of billbug damage. Bluegrass billbug is a weevil species that lays eggs in the stems of grass plants in late spring. The eggs hatch and bore into the stem as they migrate to the base of the plant, emerging in the soil and begin to feed on the grass plants roots. The small tufts of dead grass result from their feeding behavior.

Answer: Perfect lawns require lots of work. As well as treating the lawn you will need to scarify regularly. Leaving the grass a bit longer say 1.5" or 35 - 40 mm minimum will also help no end.

Answer: For various reasons, it is most likely that non-surgical contraceptives will be administered by a licensed veterinarian. It is possible that certain individuals will be able to become licensed in administering the injection under the supervision of a veterinarian.

Hyaluronic acid is often called an acid and this is a misnomer. Hyaluronic acid as a sodium salt (sodium hyaluronate)(HyaFlex) will have a neutral pH measurement not an acidic. Because of the water retention capacity of Hyaluronic acid, it is actually a very good moisturizer for the skin and is being used in many facial cream and body lotions. Dietary supplements are not to be used to prevent or treat or cure any disease. The Statements in this website have not been evaluated by the FDA.

If you’ve had dogs in the area, you’re probably seeing dog urine injury. To correct the problem, water the affected areas thoroughly to wash away the urine. While this won’t completely eradicate the brown discoloration, surrounding grass will eventually fill the affected spots. To prevent further problems, try to keep dogs off the lawn. If canines can’t be blamed, you may have dollar spot or Fusarium blight. If you live in a warm, humid area, you may have brown patch.

Our trained applicator will notify you if your lawn shows signs of disease. He'll also advise you on the best treatment. Because lawn diseases are unpredictable and treatments are so variable, there is no guarantee of results. Application of lawn

Regular fertilization helps to maintain good lawns. In western Washington, apply N-P-K fertilizers in a 3-1-2 ratio (3 Nitrogen - 1 phosphorous - 2 potassium.) Examples of fertilizers in this ratio would be 21-7-14 or 15-5-10. Sulfur enhances color and helps control some lawn disease problems.

Urine spot restoration can be a complicated procedure. The type of carpet and the degree of contamination greatly affects the outcome. Often we are able to achieve very satisfactory results using new topical solutions and treatments.

Answer: A lawn crypt is a subsurface burial container installed in multiple units that has a system for drainage and moisture control. Lawn crypts may only be sold in dedicated lawn crypt gardens.

Answer: It depends on the type of lawn you have. Dethatching is done with either a machine rented from a rental shop or with specialized rakes that give the user a very good workout! Dethatching is done to remove excessive build up of plant materials that lies just beneath or just on top of the soil. The former are rhizomes and the later stolons. Stolons are stems that "creep" on top of the soil and rhizomes are underground stems.

Answer: To control weeds, you can over-seed your lawn twice a year (early spring & early fall) to help prevent weed growth. Mowing your lawn high (4-inches or more) shades out most weed seeds and prevents them from germinating, while also slowing growth (for less frequent mowing) and strengthening the immune system of the grass. Keeping your grass unstressed by providing proper light, water, and nutrients will produce a crop of very thick turf.