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Top dressing w/compost is one of the best things you can do for your lawn. I’m a fescue guy at heart and fescue loves compost!! Do a 1/4 inch of a really good/fine compost. Feed the soil and your grass will thank you.
I also added some treatment and cultural tips in my post above. Once you get it under control, the cultural practices along with a top dressing in the spring will help keep it at bay.
if you have an irrigation system, time it to end right before/at sunrise. Wet grass at night + humidity = fungus/disease. Also, just feed in the fall and once in early spring, over fertilizing fescue, especially in summer promotes disease as well. It only needs to be fed in the fall, and once in the spring. (Forget summer fertilizer for fescue, it’s not necessary and promotes weak growth)
Here’s a pic of my fescue lawn back in VA. Nothing but compost in the spring and 2 fertilizer feedings in the fall (sept and late Oct)
Soil test is a good idea as well. It will tell you if you have any deficiencies, which can also drive diseases. Most Agricultural state programs/extensions will do it for like $20/$30. VA Tech has a great program that will also tell you exactly what you need and how much to apply, and when.
Sorry for the book, it’s a passion- lol.
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