GROWING THINGS: A cultural cure for red thread disease in lawns

Q Towards the middle of last summer our back lawn slowly became infected with what I believe may be red thread disease. At the end of the summer, it was also appearing in our front lawn. I don’t believe I saw actual thread-like growth, but patches of lawn slowly became a reddish-golden colour. As we have our lawn professionally mowed, I asked the company if they had other customers with the same problem and was told they did not. We also have our lawn fertilized professionally. None of our