Hi people. I have used the search button but didn't find quite the answer I was looking for so apologies in advance. I know little about lawn care but I am here now :)

I live in Savannah, GA which is a hot and humid climate.
. When I moved to this house the centipede grass lawn was ok.

The soil has slowly dissapeared leaving sand and the grass is dying. I have been told that the magnolia and bradford pear trees have slowly sucked the nutrients out of the ground.

As you can see from the photo there is still grass towards the roadside of the lawn so it did exist once!

We don't have the money to resod with St. Augustine and install a sprinkler system. Are there are more cost effective cheaper solution? Someone mentioned more soil, digging a trench around the trees and then reseeding with centipede?

I imagine it would take a long time to get it back looking fine but I am not going anywhere.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

This post was edited by surfjabroni on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 21:50