Do you guys think I should rent a dethatcher and detach the lawn, then aerate the lawn and over seed it with centipede seeds? Or just dethatch the lawn.
Any suggestions would help.
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In the pictures the lawn is very wet because of a very heavy rain not because of the sprinklers. so I'm cutting the sprinklers off until next week. How would I go about fixing the drainage issue?imafan26 wrote:I limit grass myself. I have St Augustine now because it was the only option after my tenants killed my grass and the nut sedge invaded the area. I had emerald zoysia. It was not a grass for walking on but it grew thick and slow. It required regular dethatching to keep it from getting lumpy, but I loved that the bugs did not like it and it grew so slow that I only had to mow once every three months with a power reel mower.
St. Augustine grew faster; could compete with the nut sedge and it disguised the nut sedge better. But it grows much faster and is a pain since it invades my borders. I had to take one border out because it was mostly grass. To keep it under control, I feed it a lot less. Pretty much I only feed it when I feel sorry for it. Last year, I fed it and it doubled the weed whacking requirement so I skipped the fall feeding. I still had to aerate, dethatch and topdress twice a year. My grass occupies only a small area so I use a dethatching rake, but I may soon have to use the vertical mower since I can't get that deep with a rake.
I think the centipede grass is being watered too much. 15 minutes a day is shallow watering and will encourage shallow rooting. Once, you get the lawn dethatched and the drainage issue resolved, it would be better to water the grass once or twice a week but water it deeply instead. I do 20 minutes twice a week, it is the equivalent of an inch of rain. If it rains for several days, I turn the sprinkler off until it dries up again.
I'm wondering about this part.I always cut it about 2in and never bagged the clippings