Without good irrigation and resources to do so, allowing your turf to go dormant during extended summer drought may be the best management practice.

Many wonder if newly laid sod should be quickly fertilized to help speed establishment.

Fall is not a time to do much to your Louisiana lawn – mow, remove fallen leaves and irrigate as needed. Warm-season grasses are slowing down and trying to go dormant. "We must let them do so," says LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dr. Tom Koske.

It is called the “lazy man’s grass” because it thrives with less care and requires less mowing than many other grasses.

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Grass clippings are a constant in yard maintenance, but fall introduces leaves into the mix. This year the nuisance is worse because hurricanes and storms have defoliated more trees.

Fall is the time to treat for brown patch, the most common disease on warm-season turfgrasses.

(Distributed 08/29/07) To winterize Southern, warm-season lawns, apply a fertilizer with more potash than nitrogren. Potash is represented by the third number on a fertilizer bag, while nitrogen is shown as the first.

Weeding and feeding are two different operations. Sometimes they can be done in combination, but not always and not for best results.

Zoysias can be the most beautiful and slow growing lawns, but they can also be big problems. These lawns are very dense and uniform in appearance.