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re: Yard needs desperate help. St Aug is dead... really dead, not dormant.

Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:46 am to
Posted by poochie
Houma, la
Member since Apr 2007
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Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:46 am to
Posted by Ziggy
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:55 am to
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poochie

Posted by TejasHorn
High Plains Driftin'
Member since Mar 2007
10979 posts
Posted on 3/7/24 at 6:58 am to
Have a landscape designer coming out in a few weeks and will see about ripping our St. Aug up for Bermuda which has already taken over some areas.

In a climate that can see -2 and 110 degrees within months of each other, coupled with biblical floods and droughts, it’s just not a good fit lol.
Posted by Themicah86
Member since Jun 2023
896 posts
Posted on 3/7/24 at 7:57 am to
I live in Allen Tx, my wife and i went for a walk the other day and our neighborhoods lawn's are damn near checkerboard house to house. Some are just dead looking brown still and others have turned totally green. Mine is the brown section of the checkerboard unfortunately. The only green section is a little 1 foot line where i had to replace my main water line last fall and just bought some zoysia quick grow patch to put over the dirt afterward and watered to get something to grow.
Posted by bkhrph
Lake Charles
Member since May 2022
173 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:55 pm to
If you want low maintenance bermuda (low fertilizer and mowing needs), check Trinity Turf in Pilot Point for “Tifton 10” (not Texturf 10). If you need a “utility” lawn, this is it. Get a pallet and it’ll spread quickly.
Any other bermuda, it’ll need more mowing and fertilizer than st aug.
But if you have even dappled shade, forget bermuda.
Posted by WITNESS23
Member since Feb 2010
13722 posts
Posted on 3/10/24 at 8:30 am to
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Take all patch is gonna be a bitch in dfw this year. Any St Aug that might think about living will be dead in a month.


What's the steps to convert the lawn? If I lay down bermuda isn't take all patch in the soil? Won't it affect the new sod?
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6226 posts
Posted on 3/10/24 at 9:37 am to
The fungus is in the soil and always will be. That being said I’ve never seen TARR effect Bermuda.
Posted by WITNESS23
Member since Feb 2010
13722 posts
Posted on 3/10/24 at 2:30 pm to
Can I do bermuda seed over the large areas my St Aug has been massacred by TARR? Then just let the best grass when out? I don't mind if they are different grasses as long as it's green and not bare dirt or 15 variations of weeds.

If so what does that process look like?
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6226 posts
Posted on 3/10/24 at 2:37 pm to
Rake out the dead areas. Seed, top with compost and lightly rake. There are other ways and YouTube has quite a bit of how to’s.
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