Tag: St. Augustinegrass

Chinch bug challenges continue in 2025

by Adam Dale
August 6, 2025

2024 was arguably the most challenging year in the past decade for Florida chinch bug management. Phone call after email after meeting, I was hearing pest control professionals describe their struggles to control chinch bugs in lawns. None of ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Lawn, Pest Control, Resistance, Southern Chinch Bug, St. Augustinegrass, Turf

February 7: Free UF/IFAS Extension webinar to provide updates on silent killer of St. Augustinegrass

by Lourdes Mederos
January 18, 2023

Florida’s most popular lawn is St. Augustinegrass – a favorite for producing a lush green to dense blue-green turf well-adapted to most soils and regions throughout the state. But in South Florida, a silent killer known as Lethal ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Henry Mayer, Lethal Viral Necrosis, Phil Harmon, St. Augustinegrass, Turf, UF/IFAS Extension Broward County, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County, UF/IFAS Extension Palm Beach County, Urban Lawns

St. Augustinegrass Seed? Can’t buy that.

by Wayne Hobbs
November 16, 2022

Turfgrass can be tricky in Florida and at times, you may find some thin spots in your yard that you would like to improve. Originally coming from the Northeast, I remember throwing out some Tall Fescue or Kentucky Bluegrass seed to accomplish ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Tags: Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Landscaping, Lawn, Seed, St. Augustinegrass, Turf

Crabgrass in St. Augustinegrass Lawns

by Wayne Hobbs
February 4, 2022

One of the most common summer weeds we see in lawns in Florida is crabgrass. This grass really stands out with its spreading habit away from a center point, growing over the lawn, and is often hairy. There are actually a few different varieties ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Lawn
Tags: Clay County, Crabgrass, Florida, Florida Friendly, Landscaping, Lawn, Pesticide, St. Augustine, St. Augustinegrass, Turf, Weed

Overfertilizing St. Augustinegrass Could Encourage Chinch Bugs, UF Researcher Warns

by BLOGS.IFAS
February 2, 2022

By: Tom Nordlie - (352) 273-3567 Sources: Eileen Buss - (352) 392-0400 Fred Baxendale - fbaxendale1@unl.edu, (402) 472-8699 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A little fertilizer can perk up a St. Augustinegrass lawn as spring arrives, but ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, Work & Life
Tags: Archive, Chinch Bugs, Eileen Buss, Entomology And Nematology, Fred Baxendale, St. Augustinegrass
Brown St. Augustinegrass

Q: In my neighborhood I have noticed some lawns are already totally brown and dead while others are still green. All of the lawns are St. Augustinegrass so how do you account for the differences?

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 3, 2017

A: First, simply because the grass blade is brown, does not necessarily mean the grass is totally dead. It is important for the stolon, which is the above ground stem, and roots to be kept alive during the winter months. If the stolon is still ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Lawn
Tags: Archive, St. Augustinegrass

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