While watering and fertilizing your lawn are necessary for maintaining your landscaping, keeping it free of illness is equally important. For this reason, keeping an eye out for signs of disease is essential when it comes to caring for your lawn in Sunnyvale. Watch this video to learn how to identify common grass diseases.

First, it’s important to realize than many of the diseases that affect lawns look alike and, while they may appear similar, these problems that detract from the health and appearance of your grass require different methods of treatment. Brown patch usually begins as a small, brown spot that can spread outward. Dollar spot also begins as small brown patches that are about the size of a silver dollar. Finally, rust gives infected blades of grass an orange tinge.