Lawn Care Tips: Identifying Grub Damage

Series Summary

Landscaping your front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety and provide diversion in which to ponder various thoughts lingering in the subconscious. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small corner garden is a simple task easy to complete in just an afternoon. In this free video series, a professional landscaper provides lawn care tips that will help the grass in a yard to flourish. Discover how to nurture St. Augustine grass and kill crabgrass for the greenest lawn on the block. Additionally, discover how to identify and get rid of grub worms, as well as how to put in a lawn as inexpensively as possible.

Video Transcript

"I'm Bill Elzey, with Showplace Lawns. Wanting to talk to you now about whether or not grubs are damaging to your lawn. Grubs are the larva stage of a June bug. They will enjoy areas of the lawn that are in full sun more sot than the shade. So, that's the area that they look for. Now, we all know that when there is a problem with the grass the grass goes brown. So, it could be anything, this the problem. The best way to identify grub damage is to look at the grass to see if it is loose. If you can roll the grass up or pick it up then it's grub damage. Because, grubs eat the roots off the grass and just sever that right off. So anytime you see a brown area like this and the grass is real loose and you can pick it up. That's grub damage."