Hello,

The advice about diagnosing your lawn problem first is absolutely correct. It might not even be a fungus problem. The educator listed below will want to see good pictures of the damage and also areas unaffected by the problem (if there are any). She will probably have quite a few questions for you, too.

Hope your lawn is green again soon.

Your local Extension Professional is located at: 12200 Fairhill Road, E. Building
Cleveland, OH 44120
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The educator that could help you is:



Hi,

Here are some pictures.  I have a lot of shade.  The really light spots are from the  sun shining through the trees.  I also included a couple of pictures of old lawn between the two houses that was not replaced last fall and a picture where the near part is green (but kind of thin but gets sun) and the far side of the front yard that’s not green and hardly gets any sun.   I understand that the shade is a problem but the strip between the houses gets zero sun and is thick and green. 

Green foreground gets late morning and early afternoon sun.   The sunny area before the car doesn’t get sun until around 4 PM. 

Grass between the houses gets zero sun.

The rest looks very thin and seems to just have green tips.  The areas that look almost white is sunlight. 

Thanks for any suggestions. 

Patt Boley

Euclid, Ohio

On Jul 19, 2024, at 16:54, Ask Extension <<personal data hidden>> wrote:



Deep watering is important for watering a lawn. If you are lightly watering frequently, try deeply watering less frequently. Also, the trees will be sucking up a lot of the water you are applying in this hot weather. The damage looks more like heat stress to me, but I would encourage you to contact your local county Extension. I am not a lawn expert.

Thanks for the pictures.