Our house has St. Augustine grass. Unfortunately, between horribly infertile soil, fungus that keeps coming back, and drought, keeping our lawn looking good is tough. I just re-fertilized / anti-weeded and de-fungus(ed) the yard. Hopefully the few dead patches come back.

Anyone else deal with the same thing?

 

We're a couple of blocks from the ocean, so all the yards out here get a pass. That being said, I keep *expanding* the flowerbeds/rocks so eventually we won't have any grass

 

I miss that f/ when i lived in MIA beach. Oh well! So far, the grass is starting to come back. Hope i don't have to re-sod

 

We're not on the ocean and I still can't get grass to grow. Watering is virtually a waste because it instantly soaks into the sand and all that is around here is sand. We can have a torrential downpour for hours and the next door neighbor will be mowing his yard 5 minutes later. Of course this year, all the plants in the flower beds froze just to add insult to injury. So much for the 11 month growing season and beautiful Florida tropicals.

 

My grass kept getting browner and browner this year, then I realized that the sprinklers were not coming on (usually 12-4am).

Fertilizer didnt seem to help (when sprinklers were working). A friend said to get something called 'liquid Iron'. It will green up the lawn in no time, but just dont get it on anything (driveway, house) because it wont come out. I guess its what the lawn people use that they dont tell you about.

The other thing would be to get some samples of your yard/dirt and have it analyzed, and that way you can know what exact nutrients it needs since it can vary from yard to yard. I have some Areca palms at two corners of the backyard (the ones that grow anywhere with hardly any water). One corner are now 20+ feet tall and the other corner have been 4 feet the whole time I have lived here (1.5 year).