TURF MEDIC

04/24/2026

We’ve gone several weeks without meaningful rainfall, and many lawns are starting to show signs of drought stress. Without regular irrigation turfgrass begins to weaken, lose color, thin out, and go dormant under prolonged dry conditions.

If your lawn has irrigation, now is the time to make sure it’s running properly and applying enough water to keep the root zone hydrated. If you don’t have irrigation, deep and infrequent watering is much better than light daily watering. This can help prevent even worse winter damage that we have noticed in poorly irrigated lawns from the previous year, especially with the presence of snow and lower than normal temps that we received this year.

A good watering program now can prevent a lot of recovery work later especially in times of drought.

If you have any concerns or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team.

07/21/2023

06/27/2023

Summer has officially been here for several days but we usually have these temperatures long before now. Unfortunately our southern turf is off to a late start still but guarantee we are doing what we can to encourage healthy growth after the long cool spring. Irrigation should now be watering 3 times a week for long periods to encourage deeper roots which will help your turf fair better in the upcoming hot/dry weather. Also mowing once a week is highly recommended and for Bermuda, if possible twice a week.

https://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/2023/06/winter-injury-on-warm-season-grasses/?fbclid=IwAR2oG3TX8ABpTAD200k2a-GKqXxB0sqB-TAsI-C1a9WOFqrq7pdnMfcx8Lo_aem_AV2Yk4x3ptUFHNP-GARvzcmNTjXsjoSdbNjg6RbpyZtgzz5tTmeg-v3AgVts8c1JeeA&mibextid=S66gvF

There is little question, the cool spring has been a challenge for warm-season grasses. They have been slow to green up and get in their summer growth pattern. Now, on top of all of the warm-season woes, we are finding some winter injury on Bermudagrass. North-facing slopes, shade lines, wet soils,....

05/29/2023

THANK YOU to all our Veterans and those currently serving our country! We appreciate your sacrifice.

05/28/2023

With soil temperatures being lower than the 5/10 year average we are not seeing the normal growth and recovery coming out or dormancy this year. Hopefully Mother Nature will wake up and give us some hot/long days☀️ to kick our warm season turfs into gear.

05/25/2023

***ALERT***

We have seen ground pearl in several neighborhoods lately and unfortunately there is no chemical control for this scale insect. If you notice this small pink pebble like looking insect scattered across your lawn we recommend a sod change (Zoysia and Bermuda are recommended) in areas with noticeable damage. Ground pearl weakens the turf and makes it more susceptible to damage from winter/drought which destroys the stressed grass. A good watering and cutting schedule to keep the lawn healthy as possible is highly recommended.

Persistent dead spots that expand outward around 1′ each year are a symptom of ground pearl infestation. The most lethal pest of lawn grasses in our area is also one of the least well known. Called ground pearl or pearl bugs, these insects can be found damaging lawns throughout coastal North Carol...

04/27/2023

We are noticing a decent amount of winter damage this year. We usually get some winterkill every year but this year we have gotten quite a bit more because of the winter and spring temperatures.

https://turfpathology.ces.ncsu.edu/2023/04/the-blues-brothers-warm-season-lawns-in-nc/?fbclid=IwAR0BcIQOf_KqLg9ylNKJ82dgr-uZx6hKVDLkcWNiosGzm7RASx5yXSiunmo&mibextid=uc01c0

Zoysiagrass rejoins with its brother centipedegrass after being released from winter dormancy, but the duo has just days to reunite their stolons and rhizomes and save the home lawn where the two were raised, outrunning the bugs and crud as they tear through suburban lawns. All jokes aside, we have....