Carpetgrass is a stoloniferous creeping warm season grass adapted to the gulf coast s warm temperatures and heavy rainfall.
St augustine carpet grass.
The lime will not harm most other grasses.
Each stolon forms its own root ball and blade set.
It has an alternating arrangement of leaves on the stolon as does centipede but not the opposite arrangement of st.
This grass tolerates high soil moisture and low soil fertility.
The recommended depth to water st.
Augustine grass is 4 6 inches.
Augustine grass spreads rapidly and aggressively via above ground stolons or runners.
Augustine grass should only be watered once it is dry and showing signs of drought typically every 5 10 days.
Many southern homeowners choose st.
The stolons runners will quickly grow and fill in bare patches of grass to form a thick carpet of turf.
Moderate levels of maintenance and mowing.
However it is a high maintenance turfgrass requiring monthly fertilizer during the growing season on.
Water in the lime immediately after spreading.
Hello all the problem i am having here in south florida is carpetgrass when we moved in to this house we spent 800 on sod laid it down and the lawn looked freakin great.
Augustine is a warm season turfgrass that s hardy growing in usda zones 8 through 10.
Creates a thick carpet like surface that competes well against weeds and other grasses.
Augustine grass stenotaphrum secundatum spreads with stolons often called runners using a process called vegetative propagation.
Carpet grass does not grow at a ph of greater than 7 5 so a good dose of lime is usually all that is needed to kill your carpet grass.
Then the carpet grass came out of know where it killed all of the sod we put down i got really mad and got down on my knees and ripped up all the carpetgrass out of what was left.
Forming a dense carpet of green to bluish green blades st.
Toughguy5 posted 02 march 2006 14 10.
Does well in full sun and also tolerates shade.
Augustine grass as their lawn covering because of its ability to thrive in tropical and sub tropical climates.
Let s go back to basics and look at some of the pros and cons of st.
Augustine grass is semi drought tolerant and does best when watering is done only as needed.