Only a few days of summer are left and home owners need to get moving if they’re going to try and reseed their lawns which were wiped out by the months-long drought. David Minner a turfgrass specialist with the Iowa State University Extension, says there are brown yards all across the state.
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Some lawns will go “dormant” and they can be revived with watering, though he says the drought was so hot and long this year that “dormancy is kind of a theory.” Minner says there are only a few remedies for homeowners to try to get that lawn back in shape and ready for spring before the snow flies.
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He says dead areas of the lawn that aren’t repaired this fall will likely be invaded by weeds next year.