I spread Scotts weed and feed southern turf builder on my grass last week and and saw lines in my grass where I must have over lapped. It looked good and in some areas where I must have overlapped it looked great. An LCO told me to keep watering it and let it really sink in. My grass was only watered when it would rain here in Houston. I wasn't around and mamma never watered. It didn't look bad but needed love. Anyhow, over the last few days I started to see areas where my lawn in burning. The areas are growing larger but not crazy yet. YET. I think I might be in trouble. Any help for me here guys. PLEASE. I worked to hard to kill my grass
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Personally, I think if it isn't completely dead yet then I would keep watering. As I understand it, the excess Nitrogen is what does the damage, and it is fairly easy to water it until it is dispersed enough not to kill the grass.
OK. That makes sense right now. Here is where I am. Last week I fertilized it. I gave HEAVY water for 4 days, more on the side of my yard where the grass was dry and just not green as green should be. OK, So I stopped watering it 3 days ago because we had a light rain and I thought ok, lets just do this every other day and see. That was when I started to see a little burn in the areas that didn't get the HEAVY water. I stopped and thought I might be over-watering. Well the area that got ALOT of water is OK and looks great. he areas that didn't are burning and moving honestly into some patches with two of them being about 3ft x 3ft. All shriveled up and dead but it does have some green strong sprouts here and there in some of the dead areas. I just started to water so i will see what happens. I tried to take a picture but my brand new camera wont open the lens cover.
When it got this hot even straight fertilize with high nigrogen will burn the grass but don't use that weed and feed it isn't any good. Much easier to spray weeds with weed-b-gon. I assume this is St Augustine? Keep watering it....and chinch bugs start about this time so put something down if you got them.
More than likly you have injured the turf with the atrazine not the nitrogen. It is WAY TOO HOToutside to put that stuff down now!
I think the more you water it in the more uptake that will happen in the plant but it is about the only way to push it through.
If the damage you are seeing is in specfic spots and moving in clumps, it may be chinch bugs and not the weed/feed you did.
Personally I would call out a professional fertilization and pest control applicator and pay them for advice and help. You don't have to hire them for regular service but diagnosis and treatment is important if you are going to save the lawn.
Good Luck
I think the more you water it in the more uptake that will happen in the plant but it is about the only way to push it through.
If the damage you are seeing is in specfic spots and moving in clumps, it may be chinch bugs and not the weed/feed you did.
Personally I would call out a professional fertilization and pest control applicator and pay them for advice and help. You don't have to hire them for regular service but diagnosis and treatment is important if you are going to save the lawn.
Good Luck
That I did. It was a drop spreader and MAN was it a mistake. So just to make sure I am doing the right thing, I have continued to water again, ALOT! I did notice today that some leafy weeds were making there way through in just one un affected area where I was watering tons. It is St Augustine grass. How long should I continue to water for? Should I drown it or just water it for a couple of minutes? I have be drowning it.
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