Greetings. Ran across this forum while searching Google for some help with my St. Augustine grass. I'm in Fort Worth

I have St. Augustine in my yard, and the front is gorgeous and thriving. The backyard, which was sodded a year ago, and then partially resodded this spring, just is sickly. The color is okay, generally, but it is thin and doesn't seem to want to fill and get thick, like it's anemic or something.

I think the part I lost last year was because of grub worms, so this spring I treated it for that and resodded the area that I lost. But even the new stuff now seems really packed in like it's suffocating or drowing with a lot of dead growth laying heavily between the blades. It's a very small yard, btw, and mostly shaded. But so is the front, which gets NO sun ever. The back gets a bit.

I'm very new to keeping a yard so -- call me clueless in FW.

NancyB,

Glad you stopped by the DirtDoctor Site. Hope you join in since you are right in Fort Worth.

I am moving your question over to the Lawn Care Forum where you should receive more advice than in this forum.

Good luck and I know the help will be there for you.

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Hi Nancy. If you treated for grub worms and still have the problem, then the problem is likely fungus disease. Most fungus is beneficial but sometimes they get out of balance and the bad ones take over.

You can change that all around with a dose of ordinary corn meal. Corn meal is nature's fungus killer. Apply at a rate of 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet and give it 3 weeks to work. Dampen it when you put it down to get it started. After that it should just go with the flow of normal (infrequent but deep) watering.

Read the FAQ on the Lawns forum for more info about corn meal and where to get it in bulk.

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