Garden Minute for April 6, 2017 – Dealing with Lawn Mold

The weather has become more tolerable for outdoor work, so many folks are getting out to do their regular lawn maintenance and are discovering mold after the long winter.

Keith Silliman with Farmers Exchange said treatment needs to happen quickly.

“The best option you is to get air into those zones. Taking a big air blower or a leaf rake and raking and doing that then air blowing to break that mat up to get oxygen underneath there is very important.”

The next step is to fertilize at least once, maybe twice depending on severity, then cut it, bag it and dump the first two or three mowings in the garbage.

As far getting your pre-emergence, Silliman said pay attention to the timing.

“Forsythia is the first indicator of that window on the pre-emergence for your crab grass and your annual poa-anua bluegrass. The closing window is the purple lilacs. There’s about three weeks to a month in-between, so you want to get your pre-emergence in that window.”

Silliman said it’s important to get fertilizer down now and then in a few weeks get the pre-emergence down.

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