Fertilizing your lawn before the soil temperature is adequately warm results in waste of fertilizer and possible lawn injury. Close up of cold injured lawn grass blades Lawn cold injury from too early fertilizer application Despite the fact that you can easily force your lawn to turn green early with many of the high nitrogen …
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Consider Re-doing Old Weedy Lawn
Larry L Williams Horticulture Agent Okaloosa County Extension lwilliams@co.okaloosa.fl.us I’ve seen people use herbicides to control weeds in an old, declining lawn. Then, with all the weeds gone, the lawn’s owner suddenly realized that he or she had no lawn left. Sometimes the best solution is to start over. Many older, thinning, declining, weedy lawns …
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Summer Lawn Insects beginning to Show-up
Theresa Friday Horticulture Agent Santa Rosa County Extension tlfriday@ufl.edu The long, hot days of summer means they you are likely to encounter greater insect populations. Careful routine scouting and recognizing damaging insects and their beneficial predators can help reduce the need for applying insecticides. Chinch bugs Chinch bugs love St. Augustinegrass lawns. The adults of …
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