I now have weeds and I am ready and want St. Augustine grass for my yard. How do I make this happen?
Question:I was not able to lay grass when my home was built. I now have weeds and I am ready and want St. Augustine grass for my yard. How do I get rid of the weeds and get the St. Aug grass to growing?
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Hello
Well it is a poor time of the season to replant an entire yard so my recommendation would be suffer the weeds until the end of August. At that point in time use the original Round Up consisting of Glyphosate Salts to irradicate all weed life. Two weeks after the weeds are dead it IS safe to plant grass seed this I guarantee you. It also says it on the bottle if you don't believe me. Find St. Augustine grass seed and water it every day for the first 3-4 weeks until it becomes established. While you have the time check the PH of your soil. It will be easier for the seedlings to survive with a PH of 6.4 to 6.7 just slightly acidic. If you do want to reseed now just do everything I told you immediatly but expect the sun to scorch out some of the seedlings and be ware of the weeds regerminating and choking out the grass and beware of the insects that are very prevalent at this time of year. Good luck.
Greenman
It sounds like the first guy was right, but St Augustine grass will not grow everywhere, you need to check out what zone you live in. South Alabama is a zone 8, so you can call a nursery, and they will be able to tell you.
GreenMan was doing pretty well till he mentioned St. Augustine seed.
You can't get St. Augustine grass seed (or at least it's damned hard to find it). You need plugs, sod, or sprigs. Fortunately, St. Augustine is a very robust grower and transplants well.
Care and maintenance of St. Augustine:
http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/public...
Information on seeds:
http://www.saintaugustinegrass.com/...
St. Augustine Grass SEED is NOT currently available - from any source in the USA.
The reason is! Because this plant does NOT set seeds well. That makes if very difficult to create the conditions (weather, management techniques) needed to produce seeds. In addition, many times the seeds are not viable. This means it makes seeds, but the germination is zero or very low. Because of this difficulty most companies have gave up on attempting to grow Saint Augustine seeds. Just simply to expensive and too much of a risky gamble (even for farmers).
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