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> I've got a nasty fungus or something under my lawn killing it off in an
> ever-widening patch.
>
> A couple years ago some vendors at Home Depot told me just to apply
> mulch and that would take care of it. It only got worse. The next year
> I bought some fungicide and applied it three times over the season, with
> no visible result.
>
> Any help is appreciated. If I have to call in a lawn care company, I'd
> like to hear any recommendations or warnings you have. I'm in north
> Austin with a St. Augustine lawn.
>
> Thanks.
If it's not a fungus, which a fungacide should have cured, it's cutworms
underneath.
They munch on the roots and kill the plants from underneath.
They're easy to kill. Just go to Lowes/H Depot and look at the pesticide
sections, read the cans.
But do it fast. Spring is the time for new growth and you want to give
your lawn a chance to rebound.
Kill those suckers, wait a week, then transplant tufts of healthy grass
into spots where you've cleared out the dead grass and let the new grass
send out runners and fill it in by end of summer.
HTH
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