Grass After - Photo 1 and 2 (night pic)

Grass After - Photo 1 and 2 (night pic)

What's the winter like? Maybe it's not warm enough for it to grow?

Trying spreading 1/4" layer of compost followed by cornmeal that you can get at animal feed store at the rate of 20 lbs per 1000 sqft.

I've had Palmetto before. It apparently is susceptible to SADV. Good thing that I had Floratam and Sapphire to fill in huge area.

Can you post a picture taken when the sun is up like the first one. I'm having a hard time seeing what you have. I see brown but not sure what it is.

Normally flooding grass for 4 continual days or longer will change the soil biology. If it does not stay flooded continually, then the problem would be different. Do you have an easily drained sand soil?

You can post multiple photos in one post. Search "posting pictures" and learn how.

Lou: the winters aren't too cold at all - it is not uncommon to see thick, green yards of st. Augustine grass all throughout the winter down here.

Dchall: I added some more pics taken during the day below - I also included pics of what the healthy grass in my lawn looks like for comparison

Today I raked the area real well to get all of the dead grass out...

Flooded Area - Day Pic

This post was edited by acclu97 on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 11:09

Day Pic -Flooded Grass

Good Grass

Good Grass - larger pic

Although it is still not the best pic it does seem to be a disease. I would do what Lou suggested above. Little bit of compost and ordinary corn meal at 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Repeat the corn meal in 3 weeks. If it does not look like it is recovering at 4 weeks, then consider a chemical fungicide. Or you can do a chemical fungicide now. If you do it now, then I would do the compost in 3 weeks - after you see signs of recovery.

Is there any chance the swimming pool water got mixed in with your flood water?

nope, no swimming pool water, only well water. Going to give the corn meal a shot this weekend - ill keep everyone posted