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re: Paging Ronk: what's the right process to sodding new lawn in DFW clay soil?

Posted on 4/1/24 at 9:52 am to
Posted by Azazello
Member since Sep 2011
3185 posts
Posted on 4/1/24 at 9:52 am to
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Increasingly hot and dry DFW summers haven’t been kind to St. Aug lawns and water bills. I’m openly rooting for the invading bermuda in our yard.


I'm in Lakewood and ~ 5 years ago, my lawn was in immaculate shape and I had about 5k sq ft of St Aug.

The freezes and droughts have destroyed my yard and I really only have about 2k of pure St. Aug left. Everything else has been overrun with Bermuda. TARR + drought did real damage to my front yard last year and it never recovered.

I'm giving it one more year and then I'm getting rid of the St. Aug for Bermuda.
This post was edited on 4/1/24 at 9:54 am
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6227 posts
Posted on 4/3/24 at 1:35 pm to
In the spring (especially this spring) I get blamed for dead St Aug all the time. Twice today already. I have to tell them that DFW is the northernmost limit for St Aug to begin with. In 2021 we had 6-8 inches of snow on the ground for days and didn't get above freezing for 129 hours and below 20 for 72 hours. In 2022 we went 74 days without rain. Ice storm in February of 2023 and one of the hottest summers on record in 2023. Their response is always well I hired your company to take care of my lawn.

It is time to let St Aug go in DFW.
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