Amazing What One Good Rain Can Do

[wood714]

My yard has good grass everywhere except this area. Past 3 years all the grass would die off. I've put hundreds of St. Augustine grass plugs in over the years. Water them, and they'd grow great only to die off late summer.

Last year I finally figured out the problem. It was Doveweed, it's almost like a green carpet that will take over anything in it's path. After mass research I found Celsius WG Herbicide. It kills just about any weed, but won't harm St. Augustine grass, even if you spray it when it's in the 90's.

Over this past winter, I super fertilized just this area. I hooked a hose to my irrigation well and 2 impact sprinklers to water just this area. I haven't had any rain for at least 6 weeks.

The night of the 14th we had some serious rain. The well water had it growing OK, but that one rain made it go nuts.

05-14-24

05-16-24

 

[Rustyt1953]

It has been raining on and off for almost two weeks.

My back yard looks like a Tarzan set.

 

[mckenney99]

Like Rusty, I am having a hard time keeping up with the mowing due to it raining just about every day for the past couple of weeks. I've been trying to mow every 3 days just to keep ahead of it. Occasionally I have had to mow through standing water, just to keep the grass from getting ahead of me. We need several dry days in a row to let the farmers get into their fields, they are starting to get behind on planting already.

 

[steelslaver]

I seldom more, the deer, pheasants and other wildlife spend time on my place

 

[soFlaNative]

Suniland brand atrazine worked great for a lot of years until it went from 8 to 4%. Celsius worked well until I couldn't find it some years back plus the nutsedge popped up everywhere. Blindside works on the sedge plus the garden variety weed such as the one you mentioned. Very expensive but the bottle last for years if I stash it indoors. I still have to dig up or generic brand Roundup the dallisgrass and crow's foot.
Rained hard yesterday for 5 minutes yesterday, first precip in weeks.

 

[hivel37]

My Mother said well water will keep plants alive,
but rain water makes them jump.