I purchased a pint of Honor Guard and a pH meter from Bugspray.com and had a question regarding the mixing process of the Honor Guard.

I have a 2-gallon pump sprayer and if I'm reading the directions correctly, I should mix 1-ounce of Honor Guard to 1-gallon of water?

Also, should I apply any type of fertilizer to help the lawn recovery? The pH was good according to the meter I purchased.

Thanks for you help and I found your website very helpful.

If you look carefully a the HONOR GUARD LABEL, you'll find it requires 1-2 oz of product for every 1,000 sq/ft of turf you want to treat when trying to control active brown patch. As we explain in our LAWN FUNGUS CONTROL ARTICLE, it's always best to treat the largest area possible in the yard when spraying. By killing making sure you control the fungus in more of an area than you see it, you stand a better chance of long term success. Spot treating rarely works so don't focus just where you see the damage; brown patch is no doubt active in other areas and these need to be treated as well.

Since you've tested the PH and it sounds like it's Okay, you may proceed with an application confident the treatment will have a good chance of success. Regarding the water quantity to mix the 1-2 oz of Honor Guard; it can be 1-3 gallons of water as long as you spray the end amount (finished spray mix) over 1000 sq/ft of turf. This way if you generally use 2 gallons of water to spray 1000 sq/ft of grass, I'd say mix the 1-2 oz of Honor Guard with this much water. But if you're confident you can get good coverage with just 1 gallon of water, then using 1-2 oz in this lesser amount of water will work too. Again, the key here is getting the right amount of active Honor Guard out over the 1000 sq/ft and not so much the amount of water involved. For obvious reasons it could require more water to treat some types of grass which is why flexible water quantities are fine.

Lastly, I suggest treating once at 2 oz per 1000 sq/ft to make sure you've killed the brown patch. Follow up 7-10 days later with a 1 oz per 1000 sq/ft treatment and at that point the brown patch should be dead. You can then proceed with some fertilizing following the guidelines we have explained in our FERTILIZING ARTICLE.

Here are direct links to the information posted above:

http://www.bugspray.net/labels/honor_guard_label.pdf

http://www.bugspray.com/article/fungus.html

http://www.grass-greener.com/fertilizer-control-for-greener-grass

jonathan

www.bugspray.com

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