re: 2022 Lawn thread - Post your pics, updates, questions, etc.

Correct.

Main concern with fertilizing now is will the added nitrogen stress the lawn. It’s has a couple of stressed spots, but nothing serious. We’ve gotten some rain, but not a ton so the ground is likely still a bit dry.

Old Yard in Nashville.


New Yard in Dallas

Could be a lot of things. It looks like St Aug. That spot looks low, does it hold water? Could be drought stress if no rain/irrigation. Could be chinch bugs. Doubt it is fungus doing that kind of work in the summer.

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That spot looks low, does it hold water?

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Yes the problem originally started when I built the beds along the fence line. I blocked off the nature drainage and when I noticed the standings water/dead grass I opened a cut to let the water pass the next year. It doesn't hold water now but it is the low spot in the yard. I will also treat for cinch bug as the grass is 100% dead in the worse spots

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Need recommendations on treatments for brand new centipede lawn being laid today after old lawn scrapped, grading, sand and topsoil spread. Besides watering, would like to know the board's feelings on preffered time of day to water, duration, when to make first cut, any immediate treatments needed, etc.?

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Water daily to sogginess week 1, every other day day week 2, and 2 or 3 times in week 3. Water weekly thereafter with at least 1 inch of water in the absence of 1 inch+ of rain.

Morning watering preferable.

No herbicides, pre- or post-, until the sod is rooted in an established. 3 + months.

Sod comes pre-fertilized so I would not fertilize centipede until next spring.

You can cut the new lawn as soon as you feel it needs it; however, do not scalp it - cut centipede at about 2 to 2 1/2 inches in height, removing no more than 1/3 of the leaf blade height.

Besides watering in the morning I wouldn't do a damn thing to it for a full year.

I answered your post about the sod cost in another OP for the house we're in now which has zoysia. My first house I laid 10 pallets of centipede sod myself in my front yard while the backyard already came with St. Aug. I loved my centipede grass, it just didn't do well at my 2nd home.

Centipede does not need much (if any at all) fertilizing. It will not stand up to foot traffic. When you do begin spraying for weeds, use a type made for Centipede and St. Aug. If not, the spray will kill it. I used IMAGE. Centipede isn't a dark green grass. If your dad wants the grass to be a darker green, he can add Ironite.

One of the things I did was to get a soil test kit to tell me what my dirt had too much of and not enough of for Centipede. It helped. You can get those soil test kits from your County/Parish Extension Agency or a greenhouse/landscaping place. It cost $7 for Auburn to test the soil and email you the report.

Only bag the first mow of the year. Never bag after that.

Any tips on growing grass after having a tree cut and grinded? About to have a tree removed in my yard, and want to get started as soon as it's removed.

Is it safe to core aerate this time of year or is it too late? My soil is pretty heavy clay, so I want to aerate then toss some mason sand to level fill holes....centipede lawn if that matters.