After a drought and neglect due to newborns in the house my st augustine lawn is dead. The front lawn is mostly weeds. The back lawn has patches of thick st agustine and some dead patches and patches of weeds. I'm trying to figure out the best course of actions.
I was considering using scotts southern max weed and feed. I dont think I have enough grass for that to really work.
I could also plant bermuda grass. Not sure what kind of weed killer to use first.
Looking for advice on how to get rid of weeds, and then restore lawn. Any general advice welcome.
Thanks!
by Alarming_Ad_7990
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Selectively control the weeds with a liquid weed killer.
Something that safe for st Augustine… In case there’s still some left. There will be several options at any hardware store.
Keep spraying every 4 weeks until the weeds are gone. Its going to take a few months. Water it regularly as if it’s a healthy lawn (to encourage more weeds to sprout, therefore depleting the seed bank)
Then, evaluate what’s left. You might have more st Augustine than you realize. You might not.
Either way, by then it will be summer and you’ll not have any weeds, so if there’s not much st Augustine left, you can replant whatever grass you go with.
If there is still st Augustine, you can get to work fertilizing it and making it spread.
The one thing you wouldn’t want to do is kill it all non selectively… You’d only temporarily be knocking the weeds back. It’d look clean, but the seedbank would be untouched so you’d just be kicking the can further down the road.
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