St. Augustine Grass

tbrown – posted 06 June 2001 12:54

St. Augustine grass growing in shady areas are not putting out runners. The grass looks healthy, but just grows straight up. What could cause this problem? Is it the shade, the soil conditions, fertilizer, etc?

seed – posted 27 June 2001 11:59

tbrown, it is common for turfgrasses in the shade to start growing upwards and not to put out many runners. About the only solution is to raise the mowing height so the few runners do not get clipped.

Phil

mikie – posted 08 August 2001 20:00

in texas, they add some extra phosphate and st augustine runs all over the place … so I’ve read.

Worked pretty well here in St Petersburg too on my newly plugged bitter blue.