Category: Grasses

St Augustine in sand 0

St Augustine in sand

jamieknotts – posted 06 April 2008 13:02 I live on North Padre Island Texas, where the soil base is PURE sand. When I bought my house, the builder had laid sod down right on...

ST.Augustine 0

ST.Augustine

grnenvy – posted 01 May 2008 06:43 I have alot of stalks growing from my St. Agustine grass does this mean it’s healthy or do I have another problem. Also on the stalks there...

when to fertilize 0

when to fertilize

paul15 – posted 10 February 2008 17:42 i live in south texas and am wondering when i should begin to fertilize my SA. also which fertilizer should i use. please help. Almaroad – posted...

St Augustine Sod 0

St Augustine Sod

kimmarcia – posted 30 March 2008 16:01 We are about to lay sod and don’t know how to prepare our current yard first. We have bits and pieces of centipede currently growing. Can we...

fertilizing 0

fertilizing

paul15 – posted 10 October 2007 08:21 when should be the latest that i fertilize my st. augustine. I live is south texas (san antonio) and was wondering if i should fertilize before winter.

Help with dead spots 0

Help with dead spots

grnenvy – posted 20 January 2008 09:45 I applied 2 treatments of lesco weed and feed on my St. Augustine about 6 weeks. Now I have alot of dead spots in my yard and...

Sod vs Plugs 0

Sod vs Plugs

suggestuse – posted 28 October 2006 12:41 I read in a book “Ortho About Lawns” that after planting plugs, they will take about 2 years to become strong and established. but sod takes 3...

Torpedo grass 0

Torpedo grass

grevic24 – posted 14 November 2006 11:14 Two months ago I laid floritam in my back yard. Lawn was looking great but got a fungus and chinch bugs which I have recently treated. There...

New sod 0

New sod

Echohawk – posted 10 April 2007 14:49 We’re having new sod (approx) 1200 sq. ft. put in. How long should we wait to fertilize and what should we use? Thanx in advance! jodyB –...