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Thanks for saying anything but glyphosate. Cheers.

It's clear you guys run a good business. And I understand you are trying to help here, and it is always important to fix drainage issues, along with cultural practices being the MOST important; but the some of this information is outdated or lacks the requisite detail. #1 TARR is not cureable. You can suppress it (in some circumstances) but not eradicate it. #2 Neil Sperry FINALLY disavowed peat moss for TARR in 2023. It is posted on his Blog. It was never a cure, it was only like treating an illness for the side-effect: being acidic. The primary property of peat moss is water retention. "Top Dressing" on top of black clay with peat moss = holding moisture in the surface of the soil and around the stolons. We NEVER want to hold moisture on the surface, we want to hold moisture several inches down (or in subsoil). It is why we water long and deep, not shallow and infrequently. "Amending" soil via aeration with sandy loam and peat moss is fine. Top dressing with it won't cure TARR, can cause other diseases, and raises your soil height. It drives me nuts seeing these houses where the grass is 3-6 inches above the sidewalk because people keep resodding and peatmossing constantly. #3 There are different strains of TARR same as there are different strains of the flu. #4 There are over 40 varieties of St. Augustine scattered around DFW and TARR affects some of them worse than others. And the old Home Depot varieties are worthless. #5 Lack of photosynthesis causes TARR to be exponentially worse for every hour of DLI under 6 hours. It is far worse a factor than drainage issues (which is more linked to other grass based diseases like brown patches, blights, etc). Separately (unrelated to what you indicated), bad lawn crews are weed eating St. Augustine down to the dirt and throwing Zoysia on top of the diseased roots and stubble. This is malpractice but nearly all of them are doing it, as most customers want an immediate fix (which it is not a real fix, just lipstick on a pig) and refuse to pay to what it costs to have sod replacement done properly. Zoysia is a great grass and has benefits over St. Augustine, but you can't hide from TARR by switching to Zoysia. Half of the lab reports I get back each month are from people who resodded with Zoysia in the last 1-2 years. And I'm also finding TAP (Take all Patch) in lots of Bermuda properties. Bermuda in full sun will bounce back fast from Take All Patch, soon as cultural practices are fixed and fungicide rotations are in place. Why? Bermuda can regenerate underground from rhizomes, St. Augustine can't. Sun and photosynthesis are the key to all plant life. There is no getting around it.

Brilliant, this is far better than the paintbrush. Been battling this weed for years in my lawn. Neighbors on both sides have it, and previous owner let it take over. I'm getting it to where it's individual plants throughout the yard, with Bermuda under it taking over slowly. I'll keep this method in mind for the ones that get past my pre-emergant in the future!

How about chinch bugs?

Rake out dead grass fix drainage replant areas where needed top dress with peat moss

How long before you can plant sod again? Will st Augustine ever take again?

Not every blade. About half I would say

Whatever you have locally is fine

What brand peat moss do you use or recommend?

Great idea. When you treated the crabgrass did you hit every blade or just until you had even coverage from all sides?

Can't wait for the results! #productreview

Implement elemental sulfur

Interested in the pH experiment -- I'm trying to lower my pH in North Dallas...not due to fungus, just want a darker green in my bermuda. I'm using AMS, but I haven't tried citric acid.

can you pull up the st augustine as it dies and resod with bermuda or do you have to wait a while?

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I have tall fescue in Fort Worth Texas and it stays green year round.

Sounds like a good plan

Aaron I live in the Keller area. My st Augustine has some spots of lime yellowish leaves. I'm leaning towards what you just described, TARR. I'm gonna try the peat moss method. Do you think I should wait a few days to put it down since we will be having lots of rain in the coming days?

This guy told us that this virus completely killed every blade of st Augustin in our yard, so thick a self-propelled mower wouldn't push through it, died. 30 years in our home & in 1 year of them treating our yard........dead.

Plant in the fall. Fescue will struggle in the summer. You can over seed your ST Augustine with fescue but I only recommend fescue in rare occasions. Watch our video on shade fixes

Perfect timing with valuable information. Best wishes this season.

Thanks 🙏 Very helpful video.

Fescue won’t survive in the summer correct? Can I over seed st agustine with fescue?

It’s fescue . I have a lot of shade

Truth hurts.

Thanks for this video! I live in South Fort Worth Summer Creek area and we bought our house four years ago. The previous owner rented it for an unknown number of years before we bought it. My St Augustine has been slowly disappearing and I didn't know why. I have been gone for the last two years on a deployment and when I came home last fall half my yard was gone. I bet this is what happened to mine. Likely he had a service mow when it was rented or one of the tennants did. My neighbors yard is amazing but I can't get mine to stop disappearing. I have Bermuda in the back yard and it is coming around nicely. If I didn't have so much shade in my front yard I would consider putting Bermuda in the front as well.

Bluestem is the worst. I have neighbors that just let it go to seed every year and it blows into my yard. It’s infested the whole neighborhood. When do you apply pre-emergent to cut down on KRB germination?

How are you supposed to dethatch st Augustine? If you use a dethstcher or verticut you’re going to rip stolens out of the yard and destroy it further?

Just came across your video and wondered if the products used to kill aster weeds, or any of the weeds these products kill, are harmful to dogs? I’ve had 2 dogs die of cancer and I haven’t fertilized (ie weed and feed) since. I’m not blaming their cancer on any products, I just wanted to eliminate anything I can to keep my current “kids” healthy. Since I stopped fertilizing, about 5 years ago, I’ve been overrun with dallisgrass, aster weeds, dandelions, you name it. I dislike them all very much!!

No weeds when follow a pre-M schedule in the fall and early spring in SE Texas👍🏽😎

I thought SA was supposed to be cut at 4 inches in the summer.

Hey brother. Right here in Desoto. I need one of my sprinkler heads repaired. How much for a service call? Got a few Dallis grass spots in the back yard.

Does this apply to West texas

Did it all come back? Trying to get bluestem out of my yard. I think it’s impossible. Lol

I do that in the fall or winter.

How do you get rid of crab grass in Saint Augustin during the growing season.

How do gat my lawn dack

#power #wateringguide #howtowateryourlawnintexas

Can you make a video on how you use the digital microscope?

Will peat moss make my compaction problems worse or is fine ? I heard it absorbs water so nervous about that

Will Celsius take down the Dalisgrass?

Looks just like my St Augustine. I started using Microlife organic fertilizers and their other soil health products. We will see.

Ive heard of bermuda decline(the take all root rot fod bermuda). Is st augustine decline a version of take all root rot? the difference between the two?

Is it true that you can never get rid of TARR just keep it at bay with like the work you did?

Thanks for the info. I’m in Robinson, TX, just outside of Waco. I have a lot of dead grass. I had chinch bugs last year, and couldn’t afford to water since it’s so expensive here. I thought the damage was from those things, but may it was disease. How can I tell if it was disease and not chinch bugs and drought issues from last year? If the damages already occurred from disease, do I need to put down some thing for fungus now in the spring?

My yard looks like this I’m In Dallas

Have you noticed any difference in efficacy between Fendona CS and Demand CS?

Too much yaking. Stick to the subject matter.

the Dallisgrass is DRIVING ME CRAZY

Spurge used to be my biggest headache, my nemesis, even. I discovered Spectracide wipes it out. It has been a lifesaver.