Dandai
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There are a lot of factors that go into recommending grass types since it’s a ton of work to do a full renovation even for a relatively small yard. I believe I could get a fescue/KBG lawn like the one i posted above to thrive here, but it would be significantly more effort because any lapse in preemergent or preventative fungicide would be a disaster. Not to mention maintaining a very particular watering schedule to make sure the blades weren’t wet at night but the plant got at least 1 1/2” of irrigation per week.
Aesthetically, I think St Aug looks pretty good. It’s probably the tallest of all warm season grasses, but the blades are crunchy and have sharp edge so it’s not as enjoyable as cool season grasses on bare feet (of course in Florida fire ants are also not enjoyable on bare feet). I don’t know a lot about warm season grasses, but it seems to me that St Aug is vulnerable to some fungus problems more so than Bermuda and centipede.
One thing I really like about the centipede I’ve got is that I’ve never seen it go yellow and dormant (and I’ve been here just over two years now). It’s super low maintenance (practically none) and actually doesn’t respond well to fertilization. My biggest complaint with my centipede is that it spreads very slowly. When I first moved here a couple years ago I found an area of centipede thriving in an open clearing among hundreds of pine saplings. It was about the size of a dining room table. That summer I cleared the property of the saplings and gave the centipede plenty of room to stretch out. It’s now two years later and that patch is about the size of a 2 car garage.
