St. Augustine – Dead and Dying

PFH1868 – posted 20 September 2005 20:27

I am a new home owner and obviously by the shape/color of my St. Augustine, NOT wise to the ways of good yard care. In Texas this year June was a total drought month and killed most of my yard. I’m afraid that I need to start over, is it too late to put in new grass in the big dead spots?

Read some of these other replies and I’ll take your advice about checking for bugs myself, but not sure it I should also get TruGreen or another similar company to come out and help me. Any reco’s on using a lawn care company?? Rip off?

Thanks in advance and sorry for a long first message,Peter

AMCalla – posted 21 September 2005 09:09

Hey there. In my opinion, hiring a company to put stuff down on a schedule is a waste of money since most of it is easy to do. The hard part is figuring out the problem, if you have a problem. I have heard many horror stories about companies killing lawns for making them worse. The problem is that you might get a guy who knows or cares nothing about the job.

As far as your problem, can’t say much about it or offer suggestions without at least some pictures. Could be disease, could be pests, or it just could be dormant fro lack of water. Especially if you don’t water when there is lack of rain. If you diagnose and correct the problem, the SA grass will come back and fill in. If you have a disease or pest problem, it may very well kill the entire lawn if you don’t fix. Can you send pictures?

Aaron