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What sod to install?
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:23 am
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:23 am
St. Aug, Centipede, Bermuda?
Pros / cons of each?
TIA.
Pros / cons of each?
TIA.
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Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:28 am to Ziggy
St Aug has always been pretty maintenance free after the first month. It seems to grow like 2" after every hard rain. I've always lived in South LA though.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:29 am to Ziggy
Where do you live and how much sun and shade does the yard in question get?
If you are in Louisiana St. Aug is the way to go.
If you are in Louisiana St. Aug is the way to go.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:37 am to Ziggy
I did Centipede, because it grows flatter and lower than other grasses, so SUPPOSEDLY less mowing.
However, it's just not agreesive enough to effectively choke out weeds, like St Aug and Bermuda are. Just my opinion.
I think Cent and St Aug look better manicured, because you can edge it easier. Bermuda just looks to fluffy to me, unless you're going to keep it very short. Again, my opinion.
However, it's just not agreesive enough to effectively choke out weeds, like St Aug and Bermuda are. Just my opinion.
I think Cent and St Aug look better manicured, because you can edge it easier. Bermuda just looks to fluffy to me, unless you're going to keep it very short. Again, my opinion.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:41 am to Capital Cajun
quote:
Where do you live and how much sun and shade does the yard in question get? If you are in Louisiana St. Aug is the way to go.
Property in question is in Louisiana.
All sun (really no trees).
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:42 am to Hammertime
quote:
St Aug has always been pretty maintenance free after the first month. It seems to grow like 2" after every hard rain. I've always lived in South LA though.
That's what I've heard - it grows like crazy and you constantly have to mow it, even in the winter time.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:55 am to Ziggy
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All sun (really no trees).
What about fences? The shade from a fence is enough to make Centipede struggle. I'm pretty much St. Augustine all the way. I like a lush, full lawn, and it seems to tolerate shade or full sun pretty well.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:56 am to Ziggy
quote:
That's what I've heard - it grows like crazy and you constantly have to mow it, even in the winter time.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. It goes pretty dormant during winter.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:57 am to Jester
quote:
That's a bit of an exaggeration. It goes pretty dormant during winter.
That's what I thought as well..
...and no fences.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:02 am to Ziggy
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That's what I thought as well..
...and no fences.
Centipede will work, but St. Aug is just better grass. Centipede also struggles with traffic. The contractor who built our how put in centipede and I fight the shite constantly. There is a clear track where I walk to the gate.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:08 am to Ziggy
Zenith Zoysia FTW
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:30 am to Ziggy
Nah, just once a week and I definitely don't scalp mine. It is much more green when it's higher.
Usually grows until the first really cold snap, stops, and then starts again the first warm front....so usually 9-10 months here. I don't cut at all during those 2-3 months.
At my house in BR, the stuff that was in the shade 1/2 to all of the day grew fastest. In Metairie, the stuff thats in the shade 9/10 of the day grows the fastest. Just different soil types holding water differently. And like I said before, after a hard rain, it'll grow 2" in 2 days
Usually grows until the first really cold snap, stops, and then starts again the first warm front....so usually 9-10 months here. I don't cut at all during those 2-3 months.
At my house in BR, the stuff that was in the shade 1/2 to all of the day grew fastest. In Metairie, the stuff thats in the shade 9/10 of the day grows the fastest. Just different soil types holding water differently. And like I said before, after a hard rain, it'll grow 2" in 2 days
This post was edited on 6/10/16 at 10:31 am
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:06 am to Ziggy
I'd go St. Aug. I have centipede and it looks good but I've sprayed some dallis grass in it with MSMA and the cent is slow to fill in.
I have st. aug in my back yard, took two plugs out with a posthole digger last year and planted in a bare spot in my yard where crab grass had taken over. Those two plugs are about 120 sq ft total now, but the spring rains we've had helped it spread.
I have st. aug in my back yard, took two plugs out with a posthole digger last year and planted in a bare spot in my yard where crab grass had taken over. Those two plugs are about 120 sq ft total now, but the spring rains we've had helped it spread.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 12:34 pm to Ziggy
Posted on 6/10/16 at 1:18 pm to loogaroo
Thanks for the replies / info fellas.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 4:23 pm to Ziggy
Emerald zoysia, if money isn't an issue.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 4:28 pm to Ziggy
Man, has this board changed a lot in ~10 years.
It must have been the great drought (and Ronk)
It must have been the great drought (and Ronk)
Posted on 4/28/25 at 4:30 pm to SportTiger1
quote:This is how it looks in the older neighborhoods if it hasn't been properly cared for (almost no one around Baton Rouge knows how to cut and fertilize bermuda).
Bermuda just looks to fluffy to me
Posted on 4/29/25 at 11:41 am to Ziggy
Zoysia, because the torpedograss is coming whether you like it or not.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:27 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
another vote for zoysia. Prob the most drought resistant of the bunch. It turns brown like its dead, but 1 good rain and its greener than any St. Aug.
It is less tolerant than St. Aug. of high traffic areas. When kids were little it wouldn't grow back around the swing set.
It is less tolerant than St. Aug. of high traffic areas. When kids were little it wouldn't grow back around the swing set.
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