Brown Patch- Saint Augustine

DryWall – posted 20 October 2003 21:37

How do you tell the difference between, “Brown patch” and Cinch Bugs? IS Brown Patch and Take All the same thing?

ted – posted 21 October 2003 11:43

brown patch is a disease. chinch bugs are insects. brown patch is best prevented by wtaering deeply and infrequently and by using fungicides for prevention.

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 23 October 2003 11:32

Brown patch looks like the picture at this link…

http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/Lawns/bp.html

Note the sort of circular pattern, well, at least the disease is all contained inside one sort of circular perimeter with that yellow halo. Brown patch likes cool evenings of spring and fall. You won’t see it in the heat of summer.

Chinch bugs will develop in irregular shapes. Chinch bugs like the sunny, hot and dry conditions.

Brown patch and take-all root rot are not the same. Take-all will develop in irregular shapes, too, but it DOES NOT loosen the plant from the roots. Brown patch will loosen the root from the plant. Both like the cooler damper periods, though.