More Helpful Lawn Care Tips From The Lawn Doctor

More Helpful Lawn Care Tips From The Lawn Doctor

Episode Transcript

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Good day. I'm Michael Blaze.Welcome to Your Home three sixty, the
show where we talk about everything thathas to do with your home. I
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we're going to talk to Sheldon Culpepperof lawn Doctor of Charleston. He
has some lawn care tips for you. It's that time a year again you
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time now for our first guest joiningme today live in the studio is Dan
Danner. He's general manager of MosquitoJoe of Charleston. Welcome Dan, Well,
thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's always good to
talk to you. So let's jumpright in here and explain the life cycles
of biting insects. A lot ofpeople think that they're killed off when cold
weather hits, but they're not killedoff, right, They kind of go

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into a dormancy because as soon asit gets warm, it's amazing, Like
the minute it heats up, they'reswarming all over the place. That is
exactly the case during wintertime. Thosethat some will die off that don't burrow
deep enough. But yeah, theygo dormant to go into the soil.
And yeah, because you know CharlestonSouth Kakilaki know how it goes. Like
we started up in February this yearbecause it started getting warm and wet,

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and then here they come. Yeah. Absolutely, and it's just maddening because
every time, and it's they justinstantly appear like out of nowhere, it
seems sometimes. So Yeah, asidefrom your service, what are some miss
you to mitigation practices that people canimplement on their own just to lessen the
impact of mosquitoes and gnats and soforth in their yard. Oh, that

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is a fantastic question, because Itell this to all of my customers.
I'm eet in person all the time. Please please please go out into your
yard, and I understand if youhave children there might be some toys out
there, but please check your yardfor any kind of buckets, pots,
containers that can be holding standing water, because standing water is your worst enemy.
It is literally an assembly line formosquitoes. Now, do you think

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it's a good idea? You seethose, for lack of a better description,
those biscuits they sell you in thestore, that you put in your
fountains and all that stuff. Isthat something that people should viewilize. Oh?
Yes, most definitely. You canmost oftenly use that. They are
very safe for all types of aquaticlife as well, So if you have
fish or anything like that. Firstof all, if you have a coipon
with fish in it, you don'tneed anything. The fish themselves will eat

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the mosquito larvae. But if youhave a fountain things like that, Yes,
those little biscuit things called BTI dungs, they are very useful and tell
us about your about mosquito Joe ofCharleston, what's involved with your service and
what kind of products do you usein your treatments? Okay, well I
can't give you the kernel's secret recipe, but I can give you the gist
of about what we do. Sure, So what we do is we come

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out, We treat the perimeter ofyour property. We treat the perimeter of
your home that we come out andwe look for sources of standing water that
you might miss. See, wedo this for a living, So we're
gonna come and check out all thehidden spots, cracks and crevices and things
like that where you might not realizeyou have some children's toys underneath the deck
or like a little you know,a beach sand bucket from your kid,
that might be holding standing water that'sbeen there for several weeks and now it's

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just teeming with mosquito larvae, whichis a big problem. So you're telling
me it's probably a bad idea thatI have a bunch of old used tires
laying around my yard that have waterin the bottom. Oh that is the
absolute worst. Whenever I see atire, I know immediately where the problem's
coming from. I can just walkover. Yep, there's the water,
and it's pretty stagnant brown. Sothis has been here for a while,
and oh yeah, here comes themosquitos flying right out of it. Yeah,

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and it's kind of amazing. LikeI said, not only do they
seem to appear out of nowhere whenit gets warm, but also if there's
like a moist area or even likemats on your porch sometimes or something,
you move it and poof, herecomes a bunch of little insects. Oh
yeah, most definitely. And somethingI hear a lot of customers talk about
the issues with mosquitos going into theirhouses. So I can show up and
I take a look, and rightthere on their front porch are two very

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large ferns on either side of theirfront door. Ferns are notorious for hoarding
mosquitos. Wow, I did notrealize that what other kind of plant life
shelters mosquitoes, Oh, let's see, basically lots of all of our own
families pretty much, not all ofit. Like flowers, you're usually pretty
good. But dense bushes azaleas,which are very popular around here, those
can be once they're not blooming.While they're blooming, mosquitos tend to stay

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away from them. But while they'renot blooming. Oh yeah, that's a
big hoarding spot for mosquitoes. Yousee those like giant looking they look like
the mosquito version of Daddy long legspiders. They're like giant mosquitoes. Now,
I've heard that those are male mosquitosand those are good because they eat
the females. Is there any truthto that? Halfway? What those are

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commonly known as. Yeah, thesebig giant mosquitos that look like the ones
from the cartoons back in the days, like Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry,
right, those are actually not mosquitos. Those are commonly known as mosquito
hawks, and they eat mosquitoes.Wow, so mosquito hawks. That's interesting.
I did not know that. Soif you see one of those flying
around, leave it alone. Yeah, yeah, basically leave it alone.

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But also be aware that is asign that you have mosquitos in the area.
So it's the same way as likewhen you have a snake problem,
you have to assume there's rodents inthe area, right exactly, so you
know that there's a food source thatyou have that you have to mitigate.
You had mentioned about a natural solution, So explain to us how the natural

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solution works and how that may differfrom your regular service. Well, well,
it's the application is exactly the samearound the perimeter of the property in
the house. But with the oldnatural solutions safer for the pollinators, for
bees and butterflies and things like that. We never spray flowers directly. You
never do that with synthetic or allnatural. But if a little bit of

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the all natural kind of drifts overto the flowers, it's going to be
safe for the pollinators once it isdried, and it is normally dry within
fifteen to thirty minutes. When yousay the synthetic product, that is not
an unsafe product. However, though, or oh no, no, no,
absolutely, these things are heavily regulatedby the state and federal level.
A lot of people have questions likethat is this safe if it's safe.
The bottom line is if these pesticideswere not safe to use on your property,

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we wouldn't be able to legally usethem period the old days of using
DDT and crop dusting and waking upwith a lump somewhere. And this is
why pesticides have to be heavily regulated. Since we're on that subject, there's
also a health benefit to getting ridof mosquitoes and biting insects because they spread
all kinds of nastiness, diseases andeverything else, don't they. Oh yes,

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absolutely. Mosquitoes can pass on thingslike the West Nile bird flu and
all kinds of different types of fancynames they have for them, but definitely
have diseases that you don't want tobe a part of. It's just the
same as how during the old daysof the black plague or the bubonic plague,
it wasn't the rats that they thought, It was the fleas that were
on the rats that were spreading thesediseases. Dan, is there a specific
type of mosquito that happens to carryyou know, West Nile more than another?

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Say no, not really. It'spretty much when it comes to mosquitos,
the species and the type of mosquitodoesn't matter. What does matter is
that they, you know, haveaccess to us and to inject us and
drink our blood and things like thatthat they need for eggs. And while
they're injecting us, you know,it is quite a strong possibility if it
is carrying something that's going to transmitit to you. The reason they're biting

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you in the first place is toget your blood to feed their eggs.
Right, So explain how that processworks. How many generations do we go
through over a season of mosquitoes?Oh, geez, you getting real technical
with it. Okay, Well,the part of the life cycle that matters.
I want numbers, Dan, youknow what. I'm going to give

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you the numbers that are the mostimportant. During peak season, I'd say
between June and August, it willtake one week for a mosquito to go
from the egg to flying around tryingto bite you. And is the females
that will bite us to drain ourblood to get the protein for the eggs.
But both males and females to getenergy. They come around and they
suck the juice out of plants,which is why we treat the plants in

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the foliage around your property and aroundyour home, so that when they're trying
to get some energy to fly aroundand do some hunting, they're going to
touch the chemical, be it syntheticor all natural, and it's going to
take care of them. Well that'sinteresting. Now, if a mosquito bites
you, can they bite you morethan once? Oh, that is a
good question, long answer plus shorteranswer. Yes, because they will lay

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more than one batch of eggs.So they'll lay a batch of eggs probably
usually a couple dozen at a timein different spots around the yard. And
then yeah, they're not just goingto die off just because they laid eggs.
And then once they go through thatcycle of egg laying, they're going
to come around and they're going tobe hungry, and you are the meal.
Yes, unfortunately, So now Idon't know the proper terminology. Is

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there anything that our bodies. Iknow that our breath, the carbon dioxide
from our breath will attract mosquitoes.Is there any other kind of substance that
we emit and endorphin or something likethat that will attract mosquitoes? Please explain?
Well, yeah, the carbon dioxideand our overall body heat that attracts
them as well, just because youknow they're hunting mammals. That's where they

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need a million blood if you will. They tend to stay away from reptiles
and things like that, amphibians unlessthey're just absolutely desperate. But for the
most part, what you can do, you don't have to walk around holding
your breath or anything like that.What you do is try to find somebody,
a romantic partner that tells you,oh, I constantly get just eaten
in life by mosquitos. This isthe person you need to be with for

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the rest of your life. Becausethe way every couple, every couple,
it's the husband or the wife alwayswon gets eaten up. Any other one
they oh, they don't touch me. It is because they really like whatever's
going on with your partner. That'swhy. So find somebody like that and
put a ring on it. Well, that's great advice. Yeah, And

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then make sure every time you goout in the yard you're like, hey,
honey, I could you sure helpout here? I just enjoy your
company. Can you please sick?Yeah, come with me, you know,
honey, I have to mow thelaw, could you, you know,
just come outside on the deck andjust you know, have a sweet
tea and it's wonderful weather. Sooneror later she might pick up on it,
but you know it'll last as longas it can. Well, that's
funny. Now this might be badnews for dudes. I've heard that beer

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drinkers get bitten more often by mosquitoesthan non beer drinkers. Is there any
truth to that. That's a newone. I haven't heard that before,
because I think that was my wifetrying to get me not to drink as
much beer anymore. Oh, Isee, I see it. Well,
then what you do is you tellher will be sweetheart. See, if
I drink the beer, the mosquitoswill be more intracted to my carbon dioxide.

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So when I'm out here on theback deck, just join me.
You have a sweet tea, andI'll be out here, and then they'll
still go back to her. Iwas just doing it to protect you,
honey, exactly. And then they'llstill go back to her. Right,
of course, that is funny.And you have a background in comedy,
don't you. Dark I don't knowwhere you hurt. These ridiculous rumors I
cannot confirm, nor didn't I.Well, tell us how you got in

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the mosquito mitigation business. Well formosquitos. I just I had years of
pest control experience, and then aftermy travels doing comedy and things like that,
I came back to South Carolina gotinto pest control, and after a
few years I just joined a mosquitojoe of Columbia, South Carolina. And
long story short, I worked hard, learned to work smart, and did

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a good job and then came downhere to Charleston and absolutely fell in love
with Charleston. This is it.I'm done, I'm retired. I'm not
moving anywhere else. Grew up amilitary brat, traveled all around after high
school. Nope, absolutely fell inlove with Charleston. And this is this
is where I'm here to stay andjust doing my party, trying to keep
them skeeters off you, because youknow they're going to get you. They

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go get you real good. Yeah, they're good at it here because we
just have vast expansions of marshland here, and I've got some vacant land a
little bit south of here. Whenwe go to and I mean that place
is those little noseums and everything aregetting It drives me nuts because they go

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in your ears and up your noseand in your eyes and in every orifice
of your body. Yes, theydo, Yes they do. And I
wanted to keep that as clean asI could. But I mean it's just
irritating when you're out there working onsomething and you have to keep you know,

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wiping your eye and the things arelike everywhere. You know, I
was following you around like a cloudcoming out of the marsh, going up
the nose and in the eyes andeverything. Like I said, it's maddening.
Yeah. The no seems especially area big problem, not just because
I mean they'll hang out in thebushes like the mosquitoes will as well,
but no seams are small enough tohide in the grass and they will just
swarm you as you just walk acrossyour backyard. A lot of people come

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to me and they ask about nocms and they say, yeah, nobody
can take care of no sms.And I'm always, what are you talking
about? I can do that.It's like I'll come back here tomorrow and
prove it to you well, andyou can prove it to our listeners.
To thirty nine bucks for your firstservice, and how long does does the
service usually last? For the servicewith a synthetic treatment it lasts up to
three weeks. With an all naturalit lasts up to two weeks. We
guarantee a sprays, which means ifwe come out and treat you notice a

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couple days later a significant amount ofstill swarming swimming flying around you, then
please give us a call. Wewill come back out retreat your property at
no extra charge to you. Nice. What's the phone number? Oh,
it's a eight four to three sixtwo eight seven seven eight eight eight four
three six two eight seven seven eighteight. That's right, it's eight four
three hey, well do that forme. Well, it's eight four three

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six two eight seven seven eight eight. That's eight four three six two eight
seven seven eight eight. Nice.And then you can also go to Mesquitejoe
dot com. Right, Oh,absolutely, yep, and check out their
service right now thirty nine bucks foryour first service. We can do a
regular service, we can do specialevent service. The point is I care
about providing a good service to people. You're you're paying a mortgage, Okay,

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the backyard comes with it. Shouldn'tyou be able to enjoy this?
Yes, you should, So callMosquito Joe and give the number one more
time. There Dan. It's eightfour three six two eight seven seven eight
eight. That's eight four three sixtwo eight seven seven eight eight Dan Dan
our general manager of Mosquito Joe,Charleston, thanks for your time today.

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Well, thank you so much forhaving me. I'm Michael Blaze. You're
listening to your home three sixty.It's time now for our next guest here
in the studio with me today isShelton Culpepper, owner of lawn Doctor of
Charleston. Welcome Shelton, thank youvery much. So let's start on your
last visit. You know, wetalked about the main things that people would
automatically think of when calling up thelawn doctor. Right, So this time

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of year, weeds pasts affect thelawn, but healthy lawn goes needs way
more care than just caring for thepast in the weeds. Right, So
let's start with proper drainage and wateringof your line. The most common thing
that we see is just too muchwater standing water. So if you have

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areas that that you know, theycall it ponding, but you know,
whether it's puddling or ponding of waterafter a rain, or it's just always
mushy when you walk in it.Those areas would be areas you want to
address that drains problem and maybe youknow anything from raising it up with some
more topsoils so the water will shedoff to another to the ditch or to

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somewhere else in the lawn, orinstalling French trains or whatever you can do
to get where it's It's okay tobe wet, but you don't want it
to be standing water or saturated foryou know, days on end. Yeah,
and I found that in my yardand I have to say, I'm
not sure what caused it, butyou know, the lawn is not nice

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in level. There's big areas ofwhat I'm guessing were used to be tree
stumps, maybe back during Hugo beforeI own the home, where there's you
know, sinking areas of the lawnand things like that. So I've done
French drains and I've also done andtell me if I'm on the right track
here, I started to have somesuccess with just adding mulch in those areas

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if you don't mind looking at it. The grass I've found, at least
with my Saint Augustine, that ittends to grow up through the mulch,
so you're not killing the grass that'spresent there, and you're kind of slowly
building up those areas as the asthe mulch decomposes. Yeah, you can
do that. It's it's common tohave overtime to have, you know,

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areas that sink or depress in.It can be new construction, an old
stomp or a route, or justsomething that didn't get packed in well,
an air pocket or something underground that'sso two three years after the house is
built, or it could be anold house. We live in a house
that was built in the I thinkin the sixties. I can't remember exactly,

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but it's sixty or seventy years old. I've been there twenty something years.
We had an oak tree blow downI think it was Timothy or one
of the hurricanes that came through,and just where the tree hit the ground
caused depressions and then also where thestump was, and so those areas will
be lower and hold water and diseasesand other issues will start to generate from

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those areas where do you have standingwater. But yes, you can top
dress with sand, sand and topsoil mix even some mulches, and as
long as you don't cover the grassup completely. Just do a small amount,
maybe an inch or two at atime. You can top dress those
areas and help level them out,help the water shed to another part of

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the lawn, whether it's maybe multor maybe get to a ditch where it
drains off. But it's a goodstrategy to slowly raise up those areas.
And you know, I just speakingfrom my own personal experience, if it
rains on my yard, like weget a heavy rain in the summertime,
like a half an inch and thirtyminutes or whatever after a heavy shower,

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there's two areas in my lawn.I've probably slighted them I don't know four
times since I've been there in twentysomething years. The grass just doesn't do
well. I always get a lawnfungness that generates or starts in those areas
because it stands. It may notstand but half a day, but if
it rains hard, I'm gonna havewater standing there for five or six hours.

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It's gonna be mushy or wet forthe next day or two, and
it just causes problems. But Idon't have anywhere to move that water,
just because of the way the drivewayin the house and the sidewalk is.
It's just something I got to dealwith. Now. We have different types
of lawns here the South and grasses, zoiza, centipede, Saint Augustine among

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them. Do they have different wateringneeds? So yes, for sure they
do. Kind of a big subjectand it really changes depending on your lawn.
In other words, someone at FoleyBeach or at Sullivan's Island or one
of the beaches growing Saint Augustine isgoing to need a lot more water if
you're specially after full sun, versussomeone maybe up in the summerville a Goose

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Creek area who has heavy shade andmaybe a centipede lawn. So it's hard.
It's really hard for me to say, uh an exact irrigation or watering
schedule, because every lawn is isa little different. But a good general
rule of thumb is if if you'rewatering and water is running off. So

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if you've got your irrigation set forthree days a week and at the end
of the session water's running down theroad, it's not it's not soaking up,
it's it's it's running off, Soit's it's plenty sat If the water's
puddling or ponding or something like that. You got plenty of water, or
either you have a compaction problem,but most likely plenty of water. If

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you're watering. Let's just say you'rewatering one day a week, every Sunday
afternoon, you water, and thelawn is still kind of crunchy and dry
and never gets good color and isalways dusty when you mow, then you're
probably not watering enough. So it'svery hard to say three days a week,
thirty minutes zon or whatever. It'simpossible just to off the cuff make

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that recommendation. But we do recommendit at least one time a week this
time of year during transition and thenthe hotter it gets, so like in
July and August, you know,most of the time people need to water
at least three and sometimes even sixtimes a week just to just to keep
the lawn from getting too dry.Not to say that it would die if

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you don't water it, just tryingto say for best growth, best color,
best health of the lawn, youwould need to water. You know,
almost every day. I will saythat it is best to water in
the mornings, so that could bethree or four in the morning, but
in the mornings so that you havethe rest of the day for the lawn

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to dry out. In other words, what I'm saying is, if you're
going to irrigate or water and youstarted at eight o'clock in the evening,
like you get off work, youget dinner and all that, it's just
more convenient to do it at eightin the evening. I totally understand that.
And if we're in a drought situationor it's really hot, or you
have new sod or something like that, then by all means, do it
when you have time. But ifyou're trying to do it, you know

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textbook, If you water in theevening, let's say you turn it on
at eight and you turn it offat ten, that lawn is going to
lay wet. There's going to bewater on the blades and on the stolens,
and you know, on the rootson the entire grass plant all night
and it may not dry out tilleight, nine, ten o'clock the next
morning, depending on which way thesun rises and how much shade you have
and all that. So it stayswell for twelve to fifteen hours a day

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as compared to irrigating in the morning. Let's just say, you could turn
it on at six am and turnit off at eight am. Then you
have it'll be dry. At thetop of the grass, the dirt will
be wet, but the dry thegrass itself will be dry, and that's
better for the turf. It helpsprevent or keep you from spreading turf disease
or turf fungus is what most peoplerefer to. And turf fungus is a

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major problem that we have in ourarea, and it gets misdiagnosed pretty regularly.
But to keep you from causing itto be worse or causing it to
flare up in your lawn water inthe morning and cut it off at some
point during the day so that thegrass can dry out on top of the
ground. So it will still bewet, but you want the grass to

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dry out well. You talked aboutmisdiagnosis, and it just reminded me.
I think I brought this up thelast time we were together. I had
my car detailed and they had laidthe rags on the front lawn and I
came back the next day and Isaw these big splatches splotches of gray on
the lawn and I'm like, theygot those chemicals on my lawn. They
screwed up my lawn. And itturns out it wasn't the car detailers.

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It was that fungus had just youknow, appeared at that at that time.
Right, fungus spores are in everybody'slawn, They're in your soil.
They're just there. It could havecome in on a flower pot, it
could have come in on the turf. It could have come in from the
wind. I mean, they spreadand they're present and all of our lawns.

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I think I can say that inthere, all the lawns, but
most of the lawns. When conditionsget right, you're going to see it.
So that might be heavy rains inthe month of August tropical storm,
you know, fifteen inches of rainand thirty days and you see it.
It could be just really common.For they're called the patch diseases. Most

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people call it brown patch. Butthere's five or six or seven different past
diseases. You can see them allyear, but they're really common when our
nights and days are the same temperature, which kind of points you to March,
April and late September or October,so spring and fall. Those past
diseases are going to be present orvisual and you can see them all year,

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but that's when there's most common.And there's other law diseases that I'm
leaving out, like you know,gray leaf spot that's a summer typically a
summer problem, and take all rootride. There's a bunch of them.
My point I'm trying to make hisback to your story about the detailing on
the car, is that if yourlawn experiences stress, whether it's a drought
in the summertime, whether it's someonecleaning a car, detailing a car,

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whether it's too much shade, akid's birthday party and you got thirty kids
running around playing tag or whatever onthe yard. There's a bunch of different
causes for stress on the lawn.And just like you or I in the
wintertime, if you don't get enoughrest, or don't get enough to or
you're traveling and you come home andyou get sick, it just could be

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from just stress on your body.You was just exposed to a pathogen and
here weren't able to defend and yougot a cold, or you've got pneumonia
or something like that. Same thinghappens with the turf. The disease is
there the spores are there, butwhen that grass gets in a situation it's
gonna or or the conditions are right, the disease is going to flare up
and you're going to see the yellowingor the browning at the blades and it's

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going to run its course. Nowyou had mentioned earlier in our conversation about
compaction, when how often should youde thatch and air rate your lawn?
Well, specifically on de thatching,Clemson doesn't recommend de thatching anymore. It
used to be pretty common. There'sde thatching machines that you could rent.

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I guess you could still run them. I'm not sure. But that's the
actual vertical slicing of the lawn.The and this was I learned this,
I don't know, twenty years agoroughly. So maybe there's some other research
on different turf types that would conflictwhat I'm saying, but I'm speaking specifically
for the low country South Carolina warmseasoned grasses. Vertical slicing or detching is

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not recommended. They have determined thatit does more damage than good, especially
on wheat grass. But compaction youcan aerate. We have a product that
we use. It's a liquid aerationto loosen up the top soil. But
you can aerate without damaging the lawntoo much, or use liquid aeration.

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You can top dress with organic materialto introduce composting things to the soil,
which also helps eliminate or loosen thetop soil. But compassion is most common
here. There's some pockets of it, but along the Wanda River in Mount
Pleasant for whatever reason, there's aclay along Highway forty one. In the

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neighborhoods out there. There's areas ofGoose Creek and the Field area that's heavy
clay, and they're not the onlytwo areas, but those are two areas
that we see quite often. Andcompaction can also just be caused like on
a ball field just from foot traffic, just you know, play football every
Friday night, JV on Thursday night, watering like crazy, mowing like crazy,

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and it's just you know, physicallycompacting the soil. So it can
happen from driving on it, fromyou know sometimes our house where Catherine and
I live was the neighborhood playground,so we had literally kids in our backyard
that we might not even know,playing almost every day. Well, my
daughter was young, so compaction canbe caused just by the soul type that

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you have, if you just happento be in a heavy clay area,
or it can be something that youCAUs, you know, just from mowing
a lot or watering a lot,or kids playing or whatever. But it's
something that can be treated or orcured or or at least work to kind
of counterbalance compaction. Shelton Culpepper,lawn Doctor of Charleston, thank you for

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