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Yes, it was. Often, there was a little spot of green in the middle. Lemme see if hubby still has the container in the garage. It was something you connect to the hose and spray. It was relatively inexpensive also...under $20. And forget those little wormy centipede things. You cannot spray for them.

Got it! "Bayer advanced...fungus control for lawns". Blue bottle. Worked great for us. Also...true or not, I don't know, but that random lawn service also told us it can easily be transferred from lawn to lawn by feet, mower, etc. I stopped a service from walking and dragging their equipment to and from my neighbor's homes on either side of us, since they did both and not ours. They were nice about it and kinda agreed. My excuse was I didn't wanna get it on their lawns. Good luck. These lawns are a little harder to handle than what we're used to. I guess we'll get it eventually.

https://www.google.com/search?q=zoys...w=1920&bih=947

Fungus pictures...let's see if this works. I'm a computer dope!

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Originally Posted by Lovey2 (Post 904696)

Sorry I was so short yesterday...in a hurry. Here's our story. My husband was out watering, AGAIN, because we had some brown spots on the lawn. A lawn service went by and told him it was a fungus, and just watering won't help and was probably causing the problem. Apparently here (as opposed to SWFL where we lived prior) it is preferred to water when the sun will get to the lawn and dry some of it out, rather than it sit. The dirt (clay) does not absorb as well. I looked "Zoysia grass fungus" up on line and got pictures of exactly what our grass looked like...brown patch. Then we went to Home Depot and bought a spray that required 2 applications, 14 days apart, and it appears to be gone. My husband has taken to hand watering those spots and running the sprinklers for only 6 minutes at a time. Of course, now it's raining more frequently, so he just turns the sprinklers on manually when it needs it. The garden people (most) at Home Depot are very knowledgable and can usually help, and don't try to upsell you, like some of the lawn services may. I'd bring them a picture and go from there. P.S. If it mole crickets, usually you will see those ugly little crickets on your driveway, or in your sprinkler head donut holes.

Lovey, it sounds like you hit the nail on the head, by determining that the grass was being overwatered, which makes it susceptible to fungus. Most of us would assume that Brown grass needed to be watered, and make the problem worse.

Thanks, Kitty. Believe me, we were on our way to making it worse. Now it even feels thicker and looks nice and green. We'll see how long that lasts.... :)

Another suggestion for determining if those damaged lawn spots are a result of active critters, irrespective of what type lawn was installed is by taking a can fill it with some water and set it level to the ground. if there are critters about you will find them floating in the can

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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 905181)

Exactly!! why you often find them in the sprinkler donut holes... :).. great suggestion