help- used wrong product on San Augustine

Camilo – posted 11 July 2003 06:03

I used a weed and feed that couldn’t be used fot my San Augustine and not it’s dying. IS there anything that would stop it from dying?

Will-PCB – posted 11 July 2003 21:11

If your looking for an antidote, I don’t think you’ll find one. Best you can do that I know of is to keep your lawn well watered, and hope for the best.

With any luck, you didn’t put a heavy application of this weed and feed on your lawn.

Maybe someone else has a better idea. Lord knows, I sure don’t.

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 13 July 2003 11:37

I don’t have any ideas to interrupt the eventual bad news, but maybe you can recover more quickly with a dose of compost and corn meal. Compost should only be used at a rate of 1 cubic yard per 1,000 square feet to avoid smothering the turf. St Aug smothers easily, so you don’t want to pile one problem on top of another. Go lightly and you’ll be fine. Then the corn meal is to feed the compost microbes and help them along. Even though the weed and feed had fertilizer in it, the addition of corn meal will not hurt anything. Corn meal goes on at a rate of 10-20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. For you I would go 10 pounds. Get it in bulk at feed stores.

Gator – posted 18 July 2003 08:34

ive used activated charcole here in fla to reduce stress of some herbicides on turf might check around to see if some one sells it in your area

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 18 July 2003 10:39

Activated charcoal is a great idea! So is zeolite. You can get zeolite in the expensive form that goes into your water softener, or the cheap kind that your cat pees on. Check your grocery store or Wal-Mart for kitty litter that is 100% zeolite. The other clays get soft and mooshy while zeolite remains firm and won’t melt.

Both charcoal and zeolite are highly absorbent as is compost.