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What type grass is in these pics?
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:06 pm
Both of these pics are from my backyard and they're both supposedly centipede. The grass in the first pic is much thicker, greener, and softer to walk on than the 2nd pic. These spots are roughly 10' away from each other. Are they both centipede?
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Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:13 pm to MaxDraft
Looks like St Augustine to me
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:21 pm to Popths
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Looks like St Augustine to me
Ditto. Blades look way too thick to be centipede.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:22 pm to Popths
Top looks like St Aug and Bottom like centipede.
St aug will eventually overtake it.
St aug will eventually overtake it.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:37 pm to fightin tigers
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Top looks like St Aug and Bottom like centipede.
I agree with this. But pull a stolon (runner) up and compare to this. Leaves opposite each other On the stolon, St Aug. Leaves in an alternate arrangement on the stolon, centipede.
This post was edited on 5/17/20 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 4:54 pm to fightin tigers
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Top looks like St Aug and Bottom like centipede
Thanks. I guess that makes sense. When I built last year, I only had landscaper do sod around half of my backyard. He did centipede. I then bought 8 pallets of what I thought was centipede from Kelly Sod and laid myself...apparently that was St. Aug. Good news I guess is that I got the St. Aug grass at a good deal since I was supposed to be getting centipede for that price.
So, the St. Aug will eventually takeover all the centipede? Is that something that happens over years?
Posted on 5/17/20 at 5:00 pm to MaxDraft
Could also be different breeds of centipede.
If it is St Aug it will take many years to take over.
If it is St Aug it will take many years to take over.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 5:54 pm to MaxDraft
Both look like centipede to me
Edit: does look like a mix in first pic maybe.
Edit: does look like a mix in first pic maybe.
This post was edited on 5/17/20 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 7:18 pm to MaxDraft
That top pic looks completely like St Aug to me. Plus the runner in view in the bottom left corner.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 7:25 pm to MaxDraft
Centipede. And you need to sharpen your mower blades. Haha
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:17 pm to MaxDraft
I think they are both centipede but hard to tell exactly without a stolon. If you ordered sod from Kelley Sod it most definitely centipede.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 9:23 am to MaxDraft
CARPET GRASS!!!!!
Top looks like carpet grass and the bottom looks like st. aug.
If you go pull it up, does it pull of a runner or like a small clump?
Top looks like carpet grass and the bottom looks like st. aug.
If you go pull it up, does it pull of a runner or like a small clump?
This post was edited on 5/18/20 at 9:25 am
Posted on 5/18/20 at 9:35 am to b-rab2
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CARPET GRASS!!!!!
Carpet grass does look a lot like St Augustine. Easy to iD carpet grass by the unique seedhead if you can avoid mowing a small patch and let the seed head form - it will typically form a seedhead in a week at these temperatures.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 9:38 am to CrawDude
Yeah the width of the blades on the top pic make me say carpet and st aug mix. The bottom pics looks like st aug centipede mix
Carpet grass is actually pretty decent stuff if you keep it cut. Seed heads just get aggravating if it goes to raining and you get behind on mowing. One reason I use MSM instead of celcius a lot of the time is that I deal with a lot of carpetgrass. (Pretty sure celcius will kill this huh?)
Carpet grass is actually pretty decent stuff if you keep it cut. Seed heads just get aggravating if it goes to raining and you get behind on mowing. One reason I use MSM instead of celcius a lot of the time is that I deal with a lot of carpetgrass. (Pretty sure celcius will kill this huh?)
This post was edited on 5/18/20 at 9:40 am
Posted on 5/18/20 at 9:46 am to jimbeam
Celsius will smoke carpet grass. From the looking at the pics I'd say carpet/st aug up top and centipede on the bottom. There is a centipede runner in the top pic, to the left, slightly reddish runner.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 9:54 am to ronk
Thanks, all. I will pull some stolons this afternoon from these areas and post pics.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 1:33 pm to ronk
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Celsius will smoke carpet grass.
Takes to applications in my experience. Or maybe I just get impatient?
Posted on 5/18/20 at 2:15 pm to b-rab2
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Takes to applications in my experience. Or maybe I just get impatient?
I seem to recall it took 2 applications of Celsius to eliminate carpetgrass in my yard, didn’t have much, but eliminate it did. Haven’t seen a carpetgrass seedhead in 2 years.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 2:57 pm to CrawDude
I had a ton. The old owner did not take care of his yard. I'm going on my second lawn season with it. Still a mess, but getting better.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 5:09 pm to MaxDraft
This is all from within about 20' of each other. Is this centipede with some carpet grass?
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