Lawn Service

[Mike 1017]

My wife and I both work full time jobs. I am not gonna spend 4 -5 hours working on my lawn. We have been using Spring Green for over 10 years now. Everything was Ok until this summers heat wave. We thought some of the grass did not recover. Then the dead grass started dyeing fast.

We called Spring Green to come out and tell us what happened. GRUBBS !!!!!

Spring Green "Our guy should have caught this". "We apologize " We are gonna spray for GRUBBS!!!! , aerate, and seed for free. I don't know how much watering grass seed cost or the cost of sod and watering. Needless to say we are not very happy.

Mike

[iamsuperdan]

Interesting. A lot of people in our neighbourhood use a company called Green Drop. And there was a lot of dead grass on our street this year. Not as bad as your lawn, but still...lots of patchy dead grass.

At least they're doing something to try and make it right.

[Rob Hall]

I've had grub problems in past years w/ my backyard, haven't had any issues this year so far..I've sprayed on some anti-grub stuff periodically.  

[espo]

I would take them up on their offer. Grubbs can do unimaginable damage and you usually don't even know you have a problem until your lawn starts to look like your pictures and they have already eaten the roots of the grass. I'm sure your summer has been much like many parts of the mid-west with little rain also. Without irrigation most grasses will get stressed and turn brown and die back. Once established Grubs can be hard to get reed of.  They should treat the yard in the spring also when the larva are starting to feed. This will also stop them from laying their eggs for the next season. We have to put down Grub-X every spring and hope we stay ahead of them. We have a water source so the irrigation is not a problem but 90 + degree days and 20 mph + winds can dry out a lawn real fast.   

[High octane]

We had some brown spots on our parkway lawn and I called our current grass control company Lawn Doctor and they didn't mention grubs at all. They did come out a couple of days later and aerated (?) a few spots and reseeded with a seed type used in southern Illinois and after watering for two weeks we were back to a green lawn again.

[Joe Handley]

I work in the call center for one of their competitors, this seems to have been a bad year for grubs. I had to set up more reservices for grub activity this year than normal, ended up setting more current customers who didn’t have grub up on curative as well as preventative applications for the next couple years than I’ve had to last few years,  as well as transferred more prospective customers to sales that suddenly had grub problems.

[cobraman]

Wow ! I did not know they could do that kind of damage .  I hope it can be reversed.

[PappyD340]

40 minutes ago, cobraman said:

Wow ! I did not know they could do that kind of damage .  I hope it can be reversed.

I didn't realize that they could do that either although we haven't had that problem in NC, sure hope yo can get your lawn back in shape. Good luck!!

[Joe Handley]

They can if not caught in time, you may also have issues with animals like skunks, moles, voles, etc digging for food as a warning sign.  If it’s caught in time, grass can re-root itself,  but that appears to be too late in those pics.  If it’s that bad and the company used is doing grub control as part Of the regular services, you may call them and see if offer some sort of reservice where they can come back out and treat again and do something to repair the damage. If you don’t have grub as your normal services, I would call to set up a curative with them ASAP.

[slusher]

Being this late in the year time is important. 

[Kit Basher]

19 hours ago, espo said:

 Grubbs can do unimaginable damage

While this statement may apply to me, I'm feeling a bit sensitive about this whole topic. They are "grubs", not "Grubbs".

See my name below.

(I'm joking!)

[espo]

2 hours ago, Kit Basher said:

While this statement may apply to me, I'm feeling a bit sensitive about this whole topic. They are "grubs", not "Grubbs".

See my name below.

(I'm joking!)

That's good. I didn't mean to misspell the name of these insects but my spell check was fine with it so I just kept going. 

[Kit Basher]

5 hours ago, espo said:

That's good. I didn't mean to misspell the name of these insects but my spell check was fine with it so I just kept going. 

Spell check can come up with some pretty amusing stuff sometimes. What really got me was the OP saying his lawn company is going to "spray for GRUBBS!" I had an image of my whole family rolling around on his front yard twitching and gasping for air! ?

[Joe Handley]

6 hours ago, espo said:

That's good. I didn't mean to misspell the name of these insects but my spell check was fine with it so I just kept going. 

Could be worse, I keep trying to use “GRB” instead of “grubs”, since I’ve used that abbreviation so often this season

[Kit Basher]

7 minutes ago, Joe Handley said:

Could be worse, I keep trying to use “GRB” instead of “grubs”, since I’ve used that abbreviation so often this season

OK, I'll bite. What is GRB the abbreviation for?

[Joe Handley]

9 minutes ago, Kit Basher said:

OK, I'll bite. What is GRB the abbreviation for?

GRuBs

Edited October 12, 2020 by Joe Handley

[espo]

16 hours ago, Kit Basher said:

Spell check can come up with some pretty amusing stuff sometimes. What really got me was the OP saying his lawn company is going to "spray for GRUBBS!" I had an image of my whole family rolling around on his front yard twitching and gasping for air! ?

Now that you mention it I'm not familiar with any spray products for Grubbs. This may be a commercial grade product and if may be better. I have used a Scotts granular product and spread it with my drop spreader. Watering your lawn or a light rain after words breaks it down into a poison for the little white rolly polly  type Grubb insects living just below the grass routs. I wouldn't mind sitting on my porch with an adult beverage or two and watch the show as they die, but all that happens in the quiet dark area below the grass.    

[Rob Hall]

I’ve used the Scotts granules with my spreader, and also this spray with a hose...haven’t had grubbage problems since using it.  

[espo]

38 minutes ago, Rob Hall said:

I’ve used the Scotts granules with my spreader, and also this spray with a hose...haven’t had grubbage problems since using it.  

I'll have to give this product a try if they return in the future. I think this could be a lot easier to apply. I see that ugly little white colored Grubb on the label. 

[Xingu]

In general, it usually takes a few years to get grubs under control. Be thankful you don't have a mole problem.

[slusher]

18 minutes ago, Xingu said:

In general, it usually takes a few years to get grubs under control. Be thankful you don't have a mole problem.

Moles are almost impossible to get rid of here in the south...

[Rob Hall]

6 minutes ago, slusher said:

Moles are almost impossible to get rid of here in the south...

I've had some sort of burrowing creatures..the dogs dig small holes after them.  I know on my other property that groundhogs used to be a problem. 

The main annoyance I've had this year in my back yard has been mushrooms springing up after rain.

Oddly, other than mowing, I've done nothing to the the front yard and it looks good. 

[slusher]

3 minutes ago, Rob Hall said:

I've had some sort of burrowing creatures..the dogs dig small holes after them.  I know on my other property that groundhogs used to be a problem. 

The main annoyance I've had this year in my back yard has been mushrooms springing up after rain.

Oddly, other than mowing, I've done nothing to the the front yard and it looks good. 

Some dogs and cats will dig them up and kill them...

[espo]

Moles. The few times I had that problem it involved putting a garden hose or two in their holes and stand by with a shovel and wait for them to stick their heads out. They'll be partially blinded by the sun when they first come out. I aim the shovel just below where they are coming out. It all ends very quickly from there. Should you notice little rises running thru your gardens especially I'll just step in them so that you collapse the tunnels and this will give them fewer escape routes. I had to fill in my neighbor about them since that's the way they moved.     

[mikemodeler]

Had a vole problem earlier this year, found some granular product at Home Depot that after 5 days of spreading and watering the affected areas, they appeared to be gone. Tried using a grub killer product to kill off their food supply to no avail.

My issue this year was the lawn service that aerated and fertilized my lawn last fall and put down the wrong seed.