Brown grass-How do you get a nice green lawn in the summer?

Hello Tracy,

Soil tests are always recommended every few years. Most every speaker in my master gardeners class recommend this for optimal way to address your soil and turf circumstances. The box and instructions can be obtained from your local cooperative extension, unless you want your lawn service to do it. You have to have a good soil to meet your needs to growing grass. From there you will find out recommendations to promote the grass growing conditions to include fertilize lime ( pH adjustment) aerate and seeding schedule.

As to your turf troubles— I would suggest a personal consultation with your specific planting zone and soil in mind.

A great resource that I have used and highly recommend .....is your local Cooperative extension. These offices are manned by a wonderful team of master gardeners that know your local situation quite well. Sometimes they even request that you bring in a sample if you suspect it is a disease problem they can examine it and tell you the problem or perhaps even ship on a sample of plant material to your local university For desease or pest diagnosis.

There's also email ( submit a photo) Q&A resources that have helped my concerns and questions many times. Consider googling up your local extensions office.

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