St. Augustine problems

Bad grass – posted 06 June 2005 07:51

I am a young new homeowner living in the hot and humid New Orleans area, and I believe I recently made a bad mistake by applying weed and feed too late. I applied on May 21st (StaGreen liquid application), when it was already fairly hot.

After about 4-5 days, grass began to yellow slightly, as the product packaging said it would. However, the product packaging said this would go away in 7-10 days.

Well, suffice it to say, the yellowing did not go away, and I now have large patches of grass that has apparently died (or is near death). The whole lawn isn’t like this, there are still some good green patches. But overall there is probably more yellow than green.

Any thoughts, ideas, miracle treatments out there?

Bad grass – posted 07 June 2005 12:08

I will bump this post as well. I know there are no miracles to fix this. I’m mainly wondering if my St. Aug grass, that has been damaged from over-stress related to a weed and feed, will grow back in time, or what I can do to help it grow back. Or if I need to start over.

Any info would be greatly appreciated. I’m a first-time poster, but I’ve consulted this board in the past for other issues…

Carlitos – posted 09 June 2005 09:41

Well I had some new SOD that died because the builder did not water it like they should. Anyway I had some grass that was in distress and died. This started out yellow and then to a yellowish white color. I still fertilized it and watered it and amazingly enough the St. Augusting grass I have is growing over it…Slowly but it is…I also had some brown patches of dead grass. I just pretended it was not there took care of the rest of the lawns and sure enough the grass around it is growing over it and is healthy…Sorry this does not help but my point is, is that a little patience is needed. Trust me that fertilizer will and should have kicked in after a good rain. City water just does not do the trick but is apparently needed to keep the ground moist and that in my opinion is all it does.

Now I have an issue. My grass grew like mad this past rain but now some of the blades are bowning out and dieing. I think I over fertilized because the first batch I used did not do anything…well because it rained, then about 3 weeks later I bought different fertilizer and it rain and WHAMMO grass grew like 5 inches overnight. So my question to anyone is that are the brown spots on the blades of grass due to:

1. The Heat2. Over Fertilizing3. Instects.

I have a ton of spiders in my yard and a few ants I am trying to get rid of. Any ideas?

Also can anyone recommend a good insecticide that takes care of all bugs and other critters.