St. Augustine in Fall

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click the stickied lawn thread link right above your post

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Do this.

Other tips now and going forward - spray weeds with post-emergent herbicide when present - fall, winter, spring and summer - just be sure to use the right herbicides for the weeds you have and the right herbicide for the temperature (so as to not injure the St Aug).

Apply a pre-emergent herbicide now, and again in mid -Feb, so you don’t have as many weeds to spray with post -emergent herbicide in fall, winter, spring and summer. Lastly make sure you mow the St Aug at the proper height - 3 to 3 1/2 inches - to help reduce weed pressure - don’t scalp the lawn.

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Is it bad to mulch tree leaves into the soil? St. Aug lawn. I'm just recently becoming aware that mulching St. Aug back into the soil is good, but I really deel like raking all the sweet gumballs and leaves.

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I do it, so I think the benefits outweigh any potential negatives. Now when the leaf fall is mega heavy, where you can’t see the lawn, I mulch and bag (mower bag) the chopped up leaves and use them as mulch in the landscape beds. I never bag leaves and put them in curb for pickup.