AboutLong Island Gardener Expertise How to grow the Perfect Lawn? If you live in the Northeast/Atlantic Coast, I have intelligent answers on grass selection, fertilizers, soil care, weed control, and lawnmowers. Although I have degrees in related fields, a person's real gardening skills are learned from trial and error. More important, I am strict about not using chemicals in the garden. Organic gardening is not just earth friendly and healthier for you, your children and your pets. It's less expensive and easier. You read that right. Less expensive and easier.
Experience Homeowner for 15 years, 30 years of gardening for personal pleasure, college credits in horticulture and botany, volunteer docent at the local botanical gardens, and a whole library of gardening and landscaping books at home some 100 years old.
Question What is the best treatment for cinch bugs on St Augustine grass? I tried the coffee can trick - no bugs came up.
Can a put a treatment on even though I dont know if I have these bugs? Right now my grass is brown and in area completely gone. We are in a drought so its hard to tell what the cause of the problem is. Please advise.
Answer Most people are 10 steps behind you when they arrive at this website. I'm impressed, Sharon. You've already conducted your coffee can exercise.
You might consider it a message that this is not a Chinchbug problem. Of course you are probably doing that when you ask what else it could be. I can tell you right now that there are several Fungus diseases that could be to blame. They have different patterns of Yellowing and Browning. And usually occur on Lawns that have been heavily maintained with chemicals, either pesticides, or weedkillers, or some of each (the chemicals wipe out other creatures, and the leftover creatures are free to take over the world). rsvp
