How To Revive Your Lawn Post-Summer
Sep 18th 2025
Maintaining a lush, vibrant lawn through Florida summers can be a challenge. Extreme heat can make it difficult to water your lawn without burning the tips of your grass, and rain or drought creates the perfect environment for disease and pests to run rampant. Patchy, thin, and brown grass are the unsightly symptoms of an unhealthy lawn and significantly lower the curb appeal of your property. If you are struggling with maintaining the health and appearance of your grass post-summer, follow our professional yard maintenance tips to get your lawn back to its green, verdant self.
Assess The Damage
Before taking steps to revive your lawn, you must first determine whether your grass is dead or just dormant due to prolonged exposure to the extreme Florida summer heat. Look at the base of an individual blade of affected grass; if the base is a lighter, almost white color, but the rest is brown and damaged, then your grass is merely dormant. If the entirety of the blade is dry and brown, then your grass is unfortunately dead — but don't fret just yet! Just because there are patches of dead grass in your yard doesn't mean that your lawn is unsalvageable.
Disease and bug infestation are also common problems faced by Florida lawns in the early fall. Some bugs, such as chinch bugs, mole crickets, and sod webworms, thrive during the late-summer Florida heat. These bugs eat and burrow into your lawn, resulting in small, scattered yellow, brown, or bare patches. Florida's hot, wet summer season can also make grass vulnerable to diseases, such as gray leaf spot and take-all root rot. If the individual blades of your grass are thin or covered in brown spots, your lawn may be affected.
Continue reading to learn our professional landscapers' recommendations for reviving dead and damaged patches in your lawn.
Mow, Weed, and Dethatch
Much like cutting the dead ends from your hair to make it grow faster and healthier, your grass will benefit from a post-summer trim and weed. Trimming off the top layer of your grass removes the dead tips, allowing your grass to focus on growing. Pulling weeds removes competition for water, nutrients, and space from your lawn, giving your grass more room to root and grow.
As grass grows, dead blades, roots, and other lawn debris build up in the top layer of your soil. This buildup stunts growth and makes grass vulnerable to disease as moisture is trapped and allowed to fester in this thick layer of debris. Dethatching removes this layer by dislodging the soil at the base of your grass. Use a manual or electric dethatching rake to remove the debris in your lawn and give your grass the room it needs to grow after summer. Keeping up a regular yard maintenance routine is a great way to prevent damage to your lawn come fall.
If you are looking for a Florida landscaping company to help maintain your lawn, look no further than Evergreen Lawn Care! Our lawn care services offer everything your lawn needs to regrow and thrive after the brutality of Florida's summer.
Fertilize and Water
Over time, the harsh UV rays of the summer sun will damage your grass and dry out your soil. Dry soil not only lacks water, but is also inhospitable for the beneficial bacteria that provide nutrients to plants. Give your lawn a hearty watering following the heat of summer, and use high-quality fertilizer to replace missing nutrients in your soil.
Alternatively, ensure that you don't overwater your grass. It can be tempting to overdo it, especially if you have a lawn filled with patches of brown and yellow grass. If your lawn is overrun with disease and rot, decrease the frequency and volume of watering. Overwatering can only exacerbate your problems, especially when it comes to fungal disease and bug infestations. If you suspect that your lawn is suffering from disease, bug infestations, or rot, Evergreen Lawn Care can help! Call our lawn care company today to learn how we can work together to revive your grass.
Overseed & Renovate
Despite your best efforts, not all damaged or dead patches of grass will recover. Our professional landscapers recommend overseeding to help fill in your yard while it recovers from the harsh conditions of summer. Laying down a thin layer of seed over the entire surface of your lawn will promote new growth, resulting in a dense, lush yard once the seeds begin to sprout. For grass that is completely dead, we recommend that you renovate the affected grass entirely. Remove the dead grass, and then call a professional to lay down replacement patches of healthy sod in its place.
No matter the cause of your lawn's post-summer plight, our lawn care professionals are happy to help. If you are looking for lawn care services in the Gainesville, Tioga, Jonesville, or Haile Plantation areas, call Evergreen Lawn Care today to learn more about our services or to get an estimate!
