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A catechism for Dan Gill: I accept about a division acre of ahead sodded centipede grass. It has been developing a edger botheration and now the edger has taken over best of the yard. It additionally looks like a bane botheration in a atom area the grass aloof will not grow. It becomes disordered and weeds booty over. What you would advise? -- Vincent Tonagel
Answer: First, be abiding to booty a attending at the LSU AgCenter online backyard affliction advertisement "Louisiana Lawns Best Management Practices." Pay absorption to mowing height, fertilizer (don't amplify it), watering and annoyance control.
You may administer edger killers now. Atrazine is accepted this time of year as it is able on abounding of the cool-season weeds alpha to abound now. Make two applications afterward characterization directions. Centipede lawns that break wet over the winter due to common rain and poor arising are generally damaged. That's what may be activity on with the asleep spot. If you apprehension areas that were blooming the year afore not greening up in spring, that is generally the cause. Improving arising may help. Fertilize the backyard in backward March. If you accept to administer a edger analgesic like Edger Free Zone, Edger B Gon, Speed Zone or others, do so in April. Evaluate the backyard in backward April or May. If areas are dead, abolish the asleep grass/weeds and lay new sod. Or, you can advance centipede seeds over the absolute backyard to ample in and thicken it up.
Dan Gill is a agriculturalist with the LSU AgCenter. Email questions to dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu or add them to the animadversion area below. Follow his belief at www.nola.com/homegarden, on Facebook and @nolahomegardenon Instagram.
