Grass not growing

10 years ago

Seems like part of my st Augustine grass is not growing correctly. Watering schedule is once a week, mowing every 4-5 days at 4". New to lawn care. Any help is greatly appreciated. Zone 8b

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hawksster .
10 years ago
Your St Augustine is growing fine, so is your bermuda.

It looks like you have a very large area of bermuda in the middle of your St. Augustine. I swear this seems like deja vu. Can you take closer picture of the patches of light green grass & the dark green grass? Pictures of the overall yard would also be nice. Can you also provide as much info as possible (location, when sod laid, when you started watering deep & infrequent, any other issue/concern).
hawksster .
10 years ago
Just to reiterate, the pictures are very important. In your last post it seemed as though you only had a few stolons popping up. In these newer pictures there are really large areas of pale green grass. If that is all bermuda, you will not be able to mow high and shade it out. If that much of your yard is mature bermuda cut at 4" it will take over your entire yard. The more info provided the better.
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Steven Cordova
Original Author
10 years ago
First picture is from last year. Getting close up pictures right now.
reeljake
10 years ago
You're the guy in Temple right? That was probably all Bermuda cattle grazing or hay production land 10 years ago. I'm from west Houston & went to Texas Tech, so I rode hwy 36 for years & that's definitely Bermuda country. Does your mower go up to 5"?!
joe renalds
10 years ago
simply put looks like you need to water more
Steven Cordova
Original Author
10 years ago
i'm actually in Killeen, I do not think my mower goes to 5" but i'm going to try and mow every 2 weeks instead of every week to see what happens.
hawksster .
10 years ago
tl dr; you may have to kill a good chunk of your lawn and resod.

It's difficult to provide accurate input in this situation. From the 1st set of pictures I see long, dark green grass with smaller areas of long, light green grass. The second set of pictures show the same house but the lawn is cut fairly low and looks to be almost entirely low cut, light green bermuda. There are no labels to the pictures so the only thing I have to go off of is the planted tree in the yard. The second set of pics have a tree that is different from the 1st set of pictures.

Bermuda in St. Augustine is a fairly bad situation. Most thing that kill the bermuda will also kill/damage the St. Augustine. Having a clear assessment of your current situation would really help in providing you direction.