St Augustine Issues....Help

[kojak33]

So when it comes to putting down fertilizers and such, I really don't know much. So I have an issue......I have a customer that asked me to put down some general grass fertilizer, nothing major. He has mostly St Augustine with a slight amount of Bahaia clumped together in one section. So off to Lowes I went, I bought some Vigaro universal fertilizer and put it down.

Before I put it down the yard had very little root system, I assume do to cutting it too short for so long by the previous lawn guy. And it was quite yellow, cept for the bahaia. The following week I went back and the whole yard looked great, nice and green and the root system even looked thicker. So the second week rolls around and now i'm noticing wilting spots all over, but only in the back yard, the front looks great still. The third week was last Friday and now the back yard is terrible looking, not really brown & dead, but wilty and really crappy looking, I didn't cut it last week cause of all the rain.

So that brings us to today....and the eventual customer phone call wondering why the yard looks so bad. I realize i'm a dumbass and did something that I shouldn't have done, but does anyone have any solutions or theories to the situation? I'm at a loss really on the whole thing. I will say this, the neighborhood was built on swamp land, so just the slightest amount of rain saturates the yard really bad and makes it very muddy and we've got a ton of rain last week.

[kojak33]

No input huh?

Well, after a week off from cutting the lawn, the grass looks much better, I guess it was all the rain. Still too many weeds though.

[steve-o]

I'm A Cool Season Lawnturd, But I'll Shoot My Thoughts Anyway.

No input huh?

Well, after a week off from cutting the lawn, the grass looks much better, I guess it was all the rain. Still too many weeds though.

too much water can cut off the oxygen supply and then the grass does not give off carbon dioxide then it has a slow death unless you correct the problem. weeds like wet lawns. i have a few myself right now, but that means more $$$ to me. :laughing:

steve

[MASTERMOWER]

too much water can cut off the oxygen supply and then the grass does not give off carbon dioxide then it has a slow death :laughing:

steve

All the more reason to "AERATE" the lawn followed by watering the piss out of a lawn for two weeks creating a man-made wetland? :alien::alien:

[kojak33]

You ought to see the neighborhood, even weeks after a couple days of rain, the lawns have water draining from them into the gutters for many days. It was a terrible place to build. My customer's back yard goes into a wildlife refuge that is actually a swamp.

[no brown lawns]

So much top growth.




Your really shouldn't have too much problem!