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| 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. 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
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| I'll leave the specifics to the warm weather experts, but I doubt that it's that the trees are sucking up the nuitients as much as they are sucking up the water. |
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| "but I doubt that it's that the trees are sucking up the nuitients as much as they are sucking up the water." And sun. |
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- Posted by texas-weed 7A (My Page) on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 20:54
| Not enough water. Centiweed does not need nutrients. It needs very acidic sand where nothing can grow and lots of water. You fertilize Centiweed once a year in spring after green up by dragging an empty bag of fertilizer around the yard and keep it watered. Mow once a month. |
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