Avoid Overwatering Your Lawn
Did you know overwatering can actually damage your Florida lawn? Fortunately, help is at your fingertips!
Overwatering your lawn causes:
- Shallow Root Systems.
- Dollarweed.
- Chinch Bug Damage.
- Excessive Thatch in St. Augustine Grass.
Healthy Lawn Tips
There is a way to control pests, weeds and other lawn diseases without investing in expensive lawn rehabilitation. Instead of using pesticides, fungicides or herbicides, you can follow this healthy lawn prescription:
- Once plants are established, irrigate only as needed.
- Establish a deep, drought-tolerant root system.
- Don鈥檛 throw water on a drowning plant.
- Do NOT irrigate a lawn wet from rainfall.
- Use mulch and fertilizer properly.
- Select the right plant for the right place.
Additional Information
To get more information, call (727) 464-4000, press 鈥�0鈥� and tell the representative, 鈥淚 want a healthy lawn.鈥� You can also check out the .
This information was cooperatively funded by the Pinellas-Anclote River Basin Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District and 新澳门六合彩 and provided by the Environmental Horticulture Department and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension Service.