Fertilizing St Augustine

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I used weed and feed around April 15th

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How much did you apply? You don’t want to over apply fertilizer. St Aug should receive between 2-4 lbs of Nitrogen/1000 sqft per year. So depending on how much you put down and how often you want to apply, that will determine your answer.

You can apply fertilizer even with the weeds present. It’s better to try to take care of the weeds so they don’t consume the nutrients you put down, but you also should not neglect the good grass that is present.

I’d suggest a better plan would be to use a selective herbicide to treat the weeds. You can spray the weeds, wait around 2-3 weeks to see how effective it was then decide if a second application is necessary. At that point, you could decide to fertilize the lawn again.

Now that I look at it, it’s clover-like with little yellow flowers. I have that stuff mixed with normal clover. I put a bag of weed and feed with a spreader, so it wasn’t very much. I applied it like the bag said. My issue is that sod worms destroyed my grass last year and the clover took over in the fall/winter. I’m trying to get it back under control.

Bumping this instead of starting a new thread. Can someone recommend a good fertilizer for St Aug. I read on a different thread but can’t find it that 15-0-10 or something like that was recommended?

Scott’s Turf Builder Southern Lawn Food is a 32-0-10 that’s pretty readily available. It’s not their weed and feed just the fertilizer product.

You can get a more balanced one from various nurseries or lawn/landscape places.

Cool deal thanks