st augustine grass care tutorial #1
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St Augustine Grass Care
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This article is a comprehensive guide to complete St Augustine grass care.
In my ten years of performing St Augustine grass care for residential and commercial customers I have learned the secrets of St Augustine grass care and I will share them with you in this post.
The perfect St Augustine grass care is very simple and yet so many people struggle because they don’t understand 3 simple but critical principles in St Augustine grass care.
In order to achieve the very best St Augustine grass care you have to be able to understand how St Augustine lawn grows and be able to provide 3 simple cultural practices that are the key to a healthy, beautiful, thick and lush St Augustine lawn.
Most people think that St Augustine grass care is about a secret pest control fertilizer program that will miraculously make their grass green and lush.
When in fact pesticides and fertilizer are only 2 parts of great St Augustine grass care.
WARNING: This article is not for those that want an easy or simplistic answer to their St Augustine grass care problem because that answer does not exist. This post is only for those that want great St Augustine lawn care. I will share with you everything I know about St Augustine grass care and everything you’d ever wanted to know backed by over 50 years of turfgrass science. By the time your done reading this you should be an expert on St Augustine grass care.
Bare in mind there is no such a thing as a lawn type that will maintain itself easily or a perfect program, all lawns have inherent problems, cultural practices, pest, and nutritional needs. If you really want a great St Augustine lawn you have to be prepared to work at it. There is no easy solution.
The success of your St Augustine grass care program is going to depend on following theses guidelines.
The tendency is to become overwhelmed with so much information and requirements and give up, the secrete to this manual is Kaizen. Making continuous improvements over time.
If your St Augustine lawn is looking terrible don’t expect it will look good overnight because you applied something the truth is in most cases this can take a season, a year or longer to achieve but the important thing is to take a step in the right direction.
Improper mowing, scalping or allowing your lawn to over grown and then removing more than a third of the leaf blade will make your lawn more susceptible to lawn fungus.
Floratam and Palmetto must be mowed at a height of 3–4 inches. Anything below that is considered “scalping” and considered detrimental to St Augustine lawn.
Scalping is the #1 malpractice of landscapers and home owners. Scalping is the practice of mowing the lawn short so it will not grow too long between cuts, usually every two weeks in the summer and once a month in the winter. These practices are in place because of the property owner’s budget and time. Scalping slows down the growth because it removes too much of the leaf blade preventing it from photosynthesis which is the process of using sunlight and convert it to make sugar or glucose which is the plants natural food. The lawn is now stressed out and cant grow healthy roots and leaves making it susceptible to pests and diseases along with chlorosis that inability to produce chlorophyll which is the chemical that produces the green color.
If you want a great looking St Augustine lawn then you have to overcome this mentality and at best mow it weekly at 3 to 4 inch.
This article is a comprehensive guide to complete St Augustine grass care.
In my ten years of performing St Augustine grass care for residential and commercial customers I have learned the secrets of St Augustine grass care and I will share them with you in this post.
The perfect St Augustine grass care is very simple and yet so many people struggle because they don’t understand 3 simple but critical principles in St Augustine grass care.
In order to achieve the very best St Augustine grass care you have to be able to understand how St Augustine lawn grows and be able to provide 3 simple cultural practices that are the key to a healthy, beautiful, thick and lush St Augustine lawn.
Most people think that St Augustine grass care is about a secret pest control fertilizer program that will miraculously make their grass green and lush.
When in fact pesticides and fertilizer are only 2 parts of great St Augustine grass care.
WARNING: This article is not for those that want an easy or simplistic answer to their St Augustine grass care problem because that answer does not exist. This post is only for those that want great St Augustine lawn care. I will share with you everything I know about St Augustine grass care and everything you’d ever wanted to know backed by over 50 years of turfgrass science. By the time your done reading this you should be an expert on St Augustine grass care.
Bare in mind there is no such a thing as a lawn type that will maintain itself easily or a perfect program, all lawns have inherent problems, cultural practices, pest, and nutritional needs. If you really want a great St Augustine lawn you have to be prepared to work at it. There is no easy solution.
The success of your St Augustine grass care program is going to depend on following theses guidelines.
The tendency is to become overwhelmed with so much information and requirements and give up, the secrete to this manual is Kaizen. Making continuous improvements over time.
If your St Augustine lawn is looking terrible don’t expect it will look good overnight because you applied something the truth is in most cases this can take a season, a year or longer to achieve but the important thing is to take a step in the right direction.
Improper mowing, scalping or allowing your lawn to over grown and then removing more than a third of the leaf blade will make your lawn more susceptible to lawn fungus.
Floratam and Palmetto must be mowed at a height of 3–4 inches. Anything below that is considered “scalping” and considered detrimental to St Augustine lawn.
Scalping is the #1 malpractice of landscapers and home owners. Scalping is the practice of mowing the lawn short so it will not grow too long between cuts, usually every two weeks in the summer and once a month in the winter. These practices are in place because of the property owner’s budget and time. Scalping slows down the growth because it removes too much of the leaf blade preventing it from photosynthesis which is the process of using sunlight and convert it to make sugar or glucose which is the plants natural food. The lawn is now stressed out and cant grow healthy roots and leaves making it susceptible to pests and diseases along with chlorosis that inability to produce chlorophyll which is the chemical that produces the green color.
If you want a great looking St Augustine lawn then you have to overcome this mentality and at best mow it weekly at 3 to 4 inch.
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