Help with my St. Augustine

pberman374 – posted 23 July 2005 01:57

I live in Los Angeles and am having trouble with about 300 square feet of St. Augustine sod that I installed about 4-5 weeks ago. I have given it plenty of water. Plenty. Halfo of it is growing great, other half is looking thinned out, a little brown and what I can best describe as patches of a brown mush have appeared. The part that this occured on does get a very good amount of shade. Is it the shade? Too much water? Something I did wrong on installation? ANY HELP would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

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Ron95gt – posted 02 August 2005 07:36

Well, in my experience with St.A, the grass that is in the shade needs only a fraction of the water, that the sunny portion needs. Don’t water it, till the blades start getting thin looking. You’ll notice that the St.A in the shade goes alot longer without the blades getting thin. Anyway, first sign of the blades getting thin, give it atleast an inch of water, then not again till it shows blade stress again. You won’t be watering the shady part much obviously. Also, St. A does not like being under water(low lying spot in the yard). Hopefully the shady part of your yard is not lower than the rest.