Sprinkler System Tips – Don’t Wash Your Money Down the Drain

When it comes to lawn care, one of the worst problems to eradicate are grubs.  That’s because grubs are tricky. Although lawn damage from grubs is most apparent in the spring, spring is not the best time to deal with grubs. Most lawn services will tell you that Mid-July and early August are the very best months to apply insecticides.  This is the time of year that the grubs emerge from their eggs and dig their way up into the topmost layer of your yard where they eat the roots of the grass blades.  They are simplest to kill in this earlier stage of growth because they have not developed a resistance to chemical compounds and are considerably easier to manage with pesticides than older and stronger grubs (spring grubs).  In early fall, the grubs will begin to burrow into the earth away from the cooling temperatures. During the cold season, these young bugs hibernate in cells that can be four inches to eight inches underneath the surface of your lawn and out of the reach of pesticides.

The grubs are the offspring of Japanese Beetles, June Beetles and Chafers.  Japanese beetles stay dormant all  winter.  They come out when the weather warms and lay their eggs in mid-July.  In August, the new generation of grubs start to dig up to the surface of your turf. That makes it the best time to treat the grub-infected location – immediately after the beetles lay their eggs.  Once grubs begin… Continue reading →