A shady yard and soaring temperatures may make you wonder what grass is best to grow. This drought-tolerant option may be ...

What can I do? ANSWER: Spongy lawns are due to vigorous growth of the St. Augustine grass. The shoots grow out of control and leave large, open spaces between the runners, which produces the ...

St. Augustine grass is a very shade tolerant grass that ... Thatch is the dead stolons (runners) and roots that collected between the leaf blades and the soil. Reducing thatch can be done with ...

Q: Why is my St. Augustine ... the runners. They will reappear in the same parts of your yard year after year, even though you may successfully treat for them each summer. First symptoms: grass ...

Dear Neil: This spring I reseeded my lawn with Bermuda grass over St. Augustine ... couple of years that after we mow our St. Augustine there are runners that are on top of the lawn.

A: In chronological order, the problems you're likely to encounter with St. Augustine turf ... blades pull loose from runners). Grub damage may show up in the fall. Grass will pull loose easily ...

Q: We started to notice these spots in the St. Augustine in late summer ... news is that it won’t kill the grass. It does weaken it, but the roots and runners remain healthy.

Q: Along with most in Texas, our St. Augustine lawn is burning up. That grass that gets some shade is faring better. There are bare spots where there once was grass, but we see dead runners.

DEAR NEIL: I’m concerned about my backyard. The photo with the tennis ball is St. Augustine (“carpet grass”), while the other photo is a mix of St. Augustine and Bermuda. Runners of much of ...