"Over-watering your lawn causes dollar weed" Fact Check: False. Overwatering doesn’t cause dollar weed, dollar weed causes dollar weed. If you reduce water to prevent, reduce or rid your lawn of dollar weed, the dollar weed remains and your lawn dies. Don’t despair, dollar weed can be controlled. Learn how here.
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"Over-watering your lawn causes dollar weed" Fact Check: False. Overwatering doesn’t cause dollar weed, dollar weed causes dollar weed. If you reduce water to prevent, reduce or rid your lawn of dollar weed, the dollar weed remains and your lawn dies. Don’t despair, dollar weed can be controlled. Learn how here.
Many believe mowing a lawn is good for the lawn and the shorter the better. Nothing could be further from the truth, This is especially true for a St Augustine grass lawn. Mowing stresses a lawn. And nothing stresses a St Augustine lawn like mowing too short. What is too short for a St Augustine lawn?
Mushrooms growing in the lawn do not indicate you have a lawn disease or fungus in your St Augustine grass lawn. It means you have mushrooms - the flowering structure of fungi. Fungi are beneficial to the lawn by composting organic matter into plant food for the lawn.
Many believe that rain washes away fertilizer and chemicals applied to the lawn. Science, in particular organic chemistry, shows how rain or irrigation after you apply fertilizer and chemicals helps to chemically bond fertilizer and chemicals to the organic matter in your lawn.
Many believe a lawn isn’t a nice-looking lawn unless it is short. But the opposite is true for a St Augustine lawn – the taller the lawn, the better it looks. Check your mowing height with this simple test.
A lawn spraying service is an easy inexpensive way to keep your lawn healthy without learning, buying and applying lawn chemicals and fertilizers
Growing a great St Augustine lawn is simple if you know where to focus your efforts. But many homeowners spend too much money and effort focused on urban lawn myths and other nonsense. This simple guide for growing a St Augustine lawn exposes the myths, eliminates the nonsense, and provides you the knowledge so you can focus your efforts on what is important and what works.
Perimeter sprays with free service calls provide an effective and safe way to keep the outdoor bugs, outdoors. Applied on the outside of the house, perimeter sprays eliminate pesticides inside the home. And should there be a problem indoors a very light touch directed at the problem will quickly solve the problem.
How good are the lawn chemicals, the weed killers, insecticides and fertilizers, sold at Home Depot or Lowes? Do they work on St Augustine grass lawns?
For the Pinellas County urban environment, a St Augustine lawn is the best. A healthy lawn is good for the environment and is good for you. A St Augustine lawn is a biological filter around your home that cleans, filters, cools and looks great
Organic Lawn Care Tip: Mow St Augustine grass at 3" or higher and you will your lawn will require less water, fertilizer, and pesticides to look great.
Are the chemicals – fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides - used for lawn care harmful to humans and pets? Learn more
Why does Pinellas County, FL have water restrictions when there is no shortage of well or reclaimed water? I wrote SWFWMD to find out why.
Lawn spraying that is owned and operated by a local expert is best. APL Lawn Spraying is owned and operated by Rick Orr, agronomist of St Petersburg, FL
Lawn Myth: A lawn isn’t a lawn unless it is short, like a golf course or it is just a hayfield. Not True! A lawn is a lawn when it looks good.