Autumn is undoubtedly a beautiful season, with the trees and plants in stunning shades of red and gold, leaves falling to the ground only to be lifted by a refreshing autumnal breeze.

Although autumn is itself beautiful, the weather conditions that often preside over the season unfortunately leave your lawn at risk.

In the autumn months the days begin to get shorter and the weather becomes damp and humid. The lack of sunshine, increase in moisture and other autumnal conditions leaves your lawn more susceptible to autumn lawn diseases such as fusarium patch disease and red thread.

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During the autumn months, keeping your lawn healthy can be a big task due to several common lawn diseases. In order to prevent major damage being caused to your lawn as a result of these diseases, it's imperative that you're able to identify, diagnose and treat the diseases as quickly as possible. Here, we go through some of the most common autumn lawn diseases and offer some advice on how is best to avoid them, saving you a lot of time and money in the long run.

Signs & symptoms of autumn lawn diseases 

During the hotter summer months, it's completely normal for your lawn to look a bit off-colour. However, when autumn comes along, the grass on your lawn should start to green-up again nicely. A healthy lawn will be a uniform colour with no bare bits and no odd-coloured patches. If the sward does contain discoloured spots, then there's a pretty good chance that your lawn has fallen victim to one of the common autumn lawn diseases. Typically these diseases have been confined to the autumn and winter months but their seasons are starting to expand as our winters become milder. So, despite us looking mainly at autumn diseases, be sure to take the information away and keep an eye on your lawn all year round. 

So, let's take a look a the different autumn lawn diseases you are likely to come across!

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