Ugh.

How is everyone's grass?

Around here it's lush green on top, but as soon as you cut it, it's all brown and sickly looking close to the ground.

I don't think it liked all this incessant rain we've gotten in the past couple months, the ground is still SO soft and saturated, it's never been able to catch up.

Can grass drown?

Well, this is me this morning:

What kind of grass? Are you cutting too much off?

Yes, grass can drown. Depends on the variety of course, but the roots can rot if the conditions are right.

Up here, we would get a couple days of rain, the bright sun and the grass would grow fast. It was either clog the mower with wet grass, or clog it with tall grass... damn frustrating!

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
What kind of grass? Are you cutting too much off?

Or the grass is being allowed to grow too much and/or isn't being cut often enough.

My grass is still green, growing, and needing to be cut regularly. But for the first time in my memory, I had to cease using my zero turn mower and return to using a self propelled push mower because the ground had gotten so saturated, the large mower was rutting it.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Ugh.

How is everyone's grass?

Around here it's lush green on top, but as soon as you cut it, it's all brown and sickly looking close to the ground.

I don't think it liked all this incessant rain we've gotten in the past couple months, the ground is still SO soft and saturated, it's never been able to catch up.

Can grass drown?

I cut it today, just as you described. Lots of mushrooms also. It hasn't dried up for most of the last 2 months. I thought I would be doing leaves by now.

I literally just came in from mowing the front and sides. With the amount of rain we’ve gotten the last month, I’m shocked I got as far as I did. Had to stop before going to the backyard as it’s a swamp. Doesn’t look it, but you take a few steps and you just sink...

It's been so wet in the last month we have fungus and mushrooms. Grass can drown and turn yellow if to much water. Oak trees will do the same.

Some friends of ours just got a FOURTH cutting of hay...Usually it's good to get 2, and very rare to get 3 - I've never heard of getting a 4th cutting around here.

My yard here in south central Va, is as you described, green on top, brown on bottom coupled with grubworms showing up. Our tree leaves are brown, probably due to the heat wave we had in...Sept.

Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, AK, it's 29°.

My wife's big annual craft show at Letchworth State Park was a mudfest. They usually park cars in the huge lawns that align the parks main road.

They starting trying to park cars as usual on Saturday, what a clusterfug! They gave up and decided to park all cars along the roadside. People were having to walk up to 2 miles, just to get to the show.

Once there, after half a day of foot traffic, all the isles were a mud mash. I was told that , by the end of the weekend, they had spread over 600 bales of hay to make it more passable.

Venders had hell to pay, trying to get their rigs in place through the mudbog. Tractors had to be brought in to get them out Monday.

I have never seen anything like it.

Yeah, same thing happened with our yard.

Yard looked great at the beginning of summer, and when the rain hit, the yard was slowly taken over by some other species of grass or similar plant coming from our neighbor's yard, I think. Now what's left is brown on the bottom. We've got moss growing in lieu of grass on the side of the house with tress, too. Even got mushrooms growing out of the decking.

Yeesh.

I've been hit by grubs.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
I've been hit by grubs.

My Dad lives in the Upper Midwest. He has to put on Grub-X every spring to keep the moles away.

However, this year is the first time in nearly 50 years of homeownership that he has had to put on Grub-X in the fall as well (i.e. twice in 2018). Skunks were scraping away the grass and digging a nose diameter hole to eat grubs.

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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
Yeah, same thing happened with our yard.

Yard looked great at the beginning of summer, and when the rain hit, the yard was slowly taken over by some other species of grass or similar plant coming from our neighbor's yard, I think. Now what's left is brown on the bottom. We've got moss growing in lieu of grass on the side of the house with tress, too. Even got mushrooms growing out of the decking.

Yeesh.

Have you checked for dollar spot?

Just a couple days ago as cutting I noticed when I came back around, some sections mostly the best growing and thickest were partially brown. I assumed it was because I was cutting around 1/2 off even with the deck set at 4 1/4". That may be part of it but I don't recall that in the past even when I let it grow too high before cutting?