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Von Jones

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Several years ago we had a lawn care service which I ended after one side of our yard died the next day. From that point on I worked at trying to restore it. I found it very difficult and annoying to repeatedly re-seeding season after season and didn't understand why? One day I was raking and saw a bunch of black spongy looking spots in the grass. Bare spots remained as I continued raking. So I googled and eventually discovered that what I saw was a fungus. Shocking, a fungus?

So while a Lowe's yesterday I picked up a bag of fungus control for lawns. The plan is to treat the yard before attempting to plant any grass seed this season. I bought a tiller at the flea market but not sure how to use it. I tried it out and it began moving back towards me, is that right?
 
Great to see a lawn care thread. I am mowing today and stopped to rest before tackling the front. The back is the biggest and much too wet from dew this morning, but that wetness kept down all the pollen from two trees and the dandelion puffs. Lots of weeds to pull, but I don't bend down, squat, or anything resembling those unfriendly senior positions, these days.

Good luck on the fungus @Von Jones that can be a real problem especially if you get a lot of rain and that portion is in a shady area. I usually just use a high nitrogen fertilizer on it as that kills fungus and helps struggling grass to grow.
 
After spending a crapload of money buying different types of grass seed, looking for something that would grow well here only to find it being replaced by the stuff that really wanted to be here, I've decided to let nature figure my lawn out and I'll just focus on keeping it from getting too high. So, my lawn is a mixture of several types of grasses, wild strawberry plants, broadleaf plantain, dandelions, a couple of kinds of clover, and moss in one part of it, as well as other stuff that I haven't identified. In the end, my lawn wanted to be a meadow.
 
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Every year we fight the "what's wrong with the lawn now?" thing. Between grubs, moles, fungus, drought, weeds, whatever... it's ALWAYS something. We are forever applying some kind of lawn treatment and running the sprinklers.

Many times I have thought back to my parent's St. Augustine lawn and how they never did ANYTHING to it at all, with the exception of half-hearted mowing by my teenage brother. That grass was always lush and green, with no effort at all.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Every year we fight the "what's wrong with the lawn now?" thing. Between grubs, moles, fungus, drought, weeds, whatever... it's ALWAYS something. We are forever applying some kind of lawn treatment and running the sprinklers.

Many times I have thought back to my parent's St. Augustine lawn and how they never did ANYTHING to it at all, with the exception of half-hearted mowing by my teenage brother. That grass was always lush and green, with no effort at all.
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St Augustine was what my Texas relatives had back in the day. Very easy to keep and slow growing. I would have it here but it doesn't survive some winters, but then we don't have chiggers and Johnson grass. We do have quack and crab grass that is a royal pain in flower beds.
 
Faye Fox said:
St Augustine was what my Texas relatives had back in the day. Very easy to keep and slow growing. I would have it here but it doesn't survive some winters, but then we don't have chiggers and Johnson grass. We do have quack and crab grass that is a royal pain in flower beds.
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We also have St. Augustine in Houston and had it in Baton Rouge. I think it's the "lawn of choice" in the south, except for the Bermuda grass enthusiasts.
 
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