I used the Scotts Bonus S as you instructed in early june. My lawn is now amazing! Thanks. These instructions are easy and simple. Worked for me thanks. Yankees can be helpful sometimes. :-)

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

5 күн бұрын

Hey, that's great to hear. Just don't give it any more fertilizer during the summer or the fall because that one treatment of bonus s is good for the whole season. Also, don't forget to give your lawn granular insecticide treatment in July and early August since the bugs love to eat these lawns!! Thanks for watching. Thanks for leaving a comment and have a great summer. Cheers!

I picked up one key point from your video, if you do too much of anything to your centipede turf, you will, Kill It". Good video, really....

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

26 күн бұрын

Hey thanks. Having lived down here steady for now 4 years, The one treatment that seems to help the best is insect control. It seems that the bugs love to eat these Southern grasses and unless I put insect control in the granular form down twice each summer, the bugs have a field day. Especially the mole crickets that can really kill these lawns. Thanks for watching and thanks for leaving a comment. Cheers!

Don't forget the fire ant killer!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Күн бұрын

Yes, you are right! I've noticed that since using the granular insecticide on our lawn twice each summer fire ant hills have not been happening! Thanks for watching and for your input!

New homeowner here at 27 years but I hope to have the best lawn in the cul de sac. Thank you so much for this!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

Hey...good luck! Hope our tips help. I can tell you that after struggling with our lawn for 9 years, out lawn is now one the best in our neighborhood. I think the key is using insect control twice over the summer (July and August). The bugs love theses southern lawns! Thanks for watching!

Thank you. We had to replace our lawn with sod (HOA) after listening to 10 different tips from 10 different people (exaggerating a little). You have simplified the process for me and I appreciate it. Will let you know if we have any problems.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

4 ай бұрын

Good luck! Hope the video helps. Since posting this video our grass has continued to thrive. I think it was the bugs that were killing our lawn and since applying insecticide twice each summer (July & August) it has really helped! Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment!

Thanks! Great tips, very helpful. Actually moved from D.C. to S.C. last year. Centipede grass is very finicky and these tips I will definitely put into practice.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, welcome to SC! Before we moved here we spent hours coming up with plans on how to get around DC when driving from NJ to Myrtle Beach in the least amount of time! Hope our grass tips will help you....Centipede is a pain to grow!

Scott’s Bonus S is high in nitrogen….29! Centipede doesn’t like that much: but once a year seems to work. Love that it is zero phosphorus. Right amount potassium! You are spot on with having to change how you care for southern laws. I about all but killed my centipede and had to research as you did! Very eye opening! Thanks for the video!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for watching! You are right about the nitrogen in Bonus S but I find if I use it only once a year (after cutting the lawn for the 3rd time in the spring) it does a great job. This year it took away all the dollar weed that had grown over the winter in my backyard!

@p.b.sHUNTING

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god….please do not take this advice. Scott’s bonus S is the worst product for centipede. Waaaay too much N. Leave the applications to professionals in this area, who know the grasses and problems. Noticing your yard…you have entirely too much shade and centipede doesn’t like shade. Zoysia is a better option because it blends well with centipede.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

@@p.b.sHUNTING I have found that if I use it once in the late spring it keeps the centipede looking good all season and more importantly it removes all the weeds that grew over the winter (especially dollar weed). Also, in the shady areas of the lawn I've tried both plugs of Zoysia and St. Augustine and have found the St Augustine spread faster and its color blended well with the Centipede. But you are right a professional can often do the better job! Thanks for watching and leaving input!

Very helpful! Learning from your experience. Made careful notes and will follow your suggestions for my lawn. Thank you.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! It took me years to figure Centipede out and I think one of the biggest things that helped was using pesticides on the lawn twice each summer. (which I hate to do). I use more chemicals now on the lawn to keep it looking good than I ever had to do with our lawn in NJ! Thanks for watching and good luck!

So helpful; thank you so much!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! Glad that it helped! These southern lawns are a pain to keep looking good! Hope you have a good growing season!

Totally different taking care of the lawn in the south. Never heard of Centipede Grass. My favorite is St. Augustine Grass is my favorite. Those mole crickets sound nasty Glad you learned so much about centipede grass.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

So true...lawn care is totally different down here and a real challenge coming from the north!

Several great tips, especially about the shade issue. 2 weekends ago I bought some St, Augustine sod to place around several shady spots. Your tip gives me hope now that I did the right thing. Have you had any issues with the Centipede taking over the St Augustine or vice-versa. Both grasses are also the 2 main grasses here in South Mississippi. Thanks again my friend.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

So what I've found is the st Augustine grass did very well in the shade and filled in well since last year. It also seems to spread and fill in much faster than the centipede. The st Augustine is a more aggressive grass from what I have seen but only over ran the centipede where it was thin. For me, the sy Augustine looks better than the centipede and did better after the winter . (came back quicker in the spring and is greener) . Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching and good luck!

Great video and thanks for the info! I live in the Market Commons in MB and Im using your advice to do my backyard👍🏻 you should do videos of your spring prep.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Grass has stayed healthy for a second year in a row (summer 2021) by continuing to do what I did in the 2020 video. Of all the things I did however, I suspect that using pesticides (which I hate the idea of using) to kill lawn bugs may have made the biggest difference, so don't skip the insecticide treatments. Good luck and thanks for watching!

Great video thanks

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helped! Thanks for watching!

Excellent!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Finally after fighting with our lawn for 9 years it looks like it should! We are also getting a lot of rain this winter which is going to help.

Hopefully this works for us folks from Philly. So far what we've been doing has created a catastrophe!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

I know growing grass down here is hard. It was much easier when we lived up in South Jersey. I think what I found that really helps is applying granular insect killer twice each summer, early July and early August. My final conclusion was that it was the bugs, especially the mole crickets that were eating my grass from underneath

Pre emergent really stunts the early growth of my centipede. I deal with the weeks until late May then spot spray them. I'm in Fayetteville nc

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

19 күн бұрын

Interesting! I have not noticed it stunting my centipede but maybe next year I'll skip the pre-emergent in February and see if the centipede greens up faster in the spring. Thanks for the input, and thanks for watching! Cheers! (ps too hot too soon this year, my plants are not happy)

Good stuff. 👍🏼

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It took me 9 years to figure it out! I see you have lawn videos...will check it out!

@realJohnWare

3 жыл бұрын

Travel with NJ Steve I’ve made a few, but not super active on KZread. I spend most of my time at thelawnforum.com. Check it out if you aren’t already a member. 👍🏼

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

@@realJohnWare Thanks...will do!

@davidslabaugh5815

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you got the real @john ware to post on your video! He is a legend!!! Congrats!

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidslabaugh5815 Yes, we're honored!

Interesting stuff! Beautiful backyard, and is that prickly pear growing behind you at 10:32 by your a/c ?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it is or something close, but have never seen anything on it that looked edible!

IRONITE is excellent to use in late May or Early June.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

It is. Great way to give the grass some extra green without the risk of burning it like regular fertilizer sometimes can. Thanks for the comment!

replying 04/02/22 Great video I've had centipede for the last 7 years lot of learning curve. I'm in Georgia just south of Atlanta 2 years ago there was a fungus that was spreading that caused some lawns to brown not just mine to be affected. I grew up in Maryland with cool season tall fescue used to lawns being 4 in high .centipede however you want to cut to an inch and a half to 2 in. I spoon feed mine nitrogen in the form of malorganite several times a summer. Also watch videos on centipede from a man named Jason creel his channel is lawn Care life. Looks like atrazine (sp) is a good blanket weed kill /pre-emergent if done after greening up or while it's still dormant. Centipede and St Augustine are very similar and what is good for one will work for the other but check the labels always! Hand picking or spot spraying for weeds during the summer helps a lot. Hope this helps anyone with centipede grass

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for leaving a comment! Good info that will help others, I'm sure! Centipede is a hard grass to keep looking good. Now what I did was mixed the front lawn with some St Augustine grass (using plugs) and that has helped fill in the spots under the tree where the Centipede did not grow. Keeping the grass watered in the winter when dormant, and killing the lawn pests has made a big improvement in our lawn. Thanks for watching!

@sidneywhitaker9972

7 ай бұрын

Have to be careful with the milorganite on centipede due to the phosphorus content.

some good tips but bad as well. Scotts is too high in nitrogen!. October is getting late for pre-emergent, do by end of September as far north as you are. You are really far north for St. Augustine, even on coast. I say use Zoysia instead. It also does not like shade and will likely be thin but it is tough and sturdy and will survive that colder weather. However, again you will need to treat as two different grasses as when having St. Augustine and Centipede. But you will overcome soil pH difference since Zoysia likes a wide range of pH. Centipede like acid and St. Augustine likes alkaline making them incompatible. I don't know how you can compare St. Augustine to Centipede. They look very different if each is healthy. Maybe not as far north but here, islands east of Savannah, I got rid of St. Augustine because mid-summer with rains it would grow 8 inches a week requiring mowing twice a week so not to remove more than a third of the blade. That was too much work for six weeks. In the end I got rid of centipede also and had nothing but Zoysia. Cut at 1 inch it was like walking on a thick dense carpet. Because it grew so slowly most of the year I could skip weekly cuts without major impact. But it did take me longer to cut. Sharp blades were imperative. And I had to mow slowly because it took a lot of power to cut through that density. And to ensure even cut regardless of the grain with respect to sun I always took half swathes. (Frequently I was asked what kind of grass I had.)

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for your tips! I'm definitely going to try your suggestion of applying the pre-emergent in September instead of October since I have noticed that we still get winter weeds with the October application. As far as the grass is, I have tried zoysia centipede and St. Augustine and since the video so far, the St. Augustine is doing the best even in the shade and even despite the fact that it does get cool up here along the South Carolina coast in the winter. But I agree with you about the zoysia. We had that in New Jersey in our backyard and it really did well with little maintenance. Appreciate your comments. Thanks for watching. Hope you have a good summer!!

Hello, we’re in early April now. What step do you recommend I start? I trying to do anything to help my lawn. Today I, probably unnecessary, dethatched the lawn. And I was considering over seeding soon.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

If you are working with a Centipede lawn you should have applied Pre-emergent (lesco 0-0-7) in Feb. If you didn't, you can do it now. But don't do any fertilizer until May since you do not want to stimulate the grass to grow when it is still cool out (you can kill it!). Then I apply Bonus S in late June and Insect killer twice over the summer (that really helped my lawn last year!). Good luck and thanks for watching!

@saycheese1832

3 жыл бұрын

@@TravelwithNJSteveandSue thanks, I will do it today. I have 0-0-7.

I’m from East Orange…How high do you let it get before mowing? And what’s the ideal height to maintain for centipede?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

People down here cut it short, but I like to cut it to 2 to 2.5 inches high. Also, it does not grow as fast as the grasses up north so you can get away with cutting it every 10-14 days! Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!

I'm in NC with centipede and mine died.. I don't know how bc it was beautiful last year... I have a huge dead area of about 1000 Sq feet... How do you know if you have mole crickets?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

I have read that if you use too much fertilizer in one year that the centipede will die off the next year. But to answer your question, pour soapy water onto the grass and the mole crickets will come to the surface (like this guy did kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4t72daIcaqeh7w.html). When I look back at my lawn that was always in poor shape, I think that by applying insecticide twice last summer (July & August) is what really helped. I had mole crickets but have not seen them since. Good Luck! Thanks for watching!

Steve, what about Zoysia grass?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

Good question...It will grow down here in SC but likes light and more fertilizer than Centipede. I did also use it to plug open spots of my lawn but noticed it does not spread around as quickly as St Augustine grass. Some lawns down here are 100% Zoysia and look good! We had it in our lawn up north and it was very hardy, so if I was going to replace my entire lawn here in SC I would consider Zoysia! Thanks for watching!

Hello from Columbia

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

Hello from myrtle beach! Thanks for watching!!

@fudgeme5545

3 жыл бұрын

Irmo here, howdy!

@Brian1.

3 жыл бұрын

@@fudgeme5545 Howdy neighbor!

What flowers have you had the best success with?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

A big issue that we found was that the deer eat everything but they seem to stay away from Vinca which flower all summer and grow well down here. Pansys also grow well down here in the spring and fall but deer love to eat them!

@chrisscuderi6963

3 жыл бұрын

@@TravelwithNJSteveandSue can you make a video on flowers to grow in Myrtle Beach?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisscuderi6963 Good idea! Down here its not only the heat but the deer that one has to contend with!

Greetings from Lexington, SC. Great video. I moved down here from NJ and the centipede grass looks bad. The kids play in the backyard and it’s completely matted down. Any suggestions? It could be dead. Not greening up yet. 🤷‍♂️

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, centipede cannot take any foot traffic! All you can do is keep the kids off the grass and see if it comes back. If not you could try replacing it with Zoysia (that can take some foot traffic), or wait and give it fertilizer in May and see if it greens up. If so, then give it an application of insect killer in July and August, followed by Iron. I had found my lawn was bad because of insects. Good Luck! Hope you have success! Thanks for watching!

What about mowing? How high and how often?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Good question! No mowing needed in the spring since it takes a long time for centipede to green up and start growing! It really doesn't start to grow until temps are around 80 and grows best all summer. Then I cut it every ~10 days and cut it to 2 inches. I do not like to cut it too low since I feel it weakens the grass. Hope that helps!

Is it too late in SC to apply the pre-emergent from Lesco?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Its best to apply it mid-Feb but I say better late than never. Spring weeds and spring weed grass is going to start popping up since the weather is turning warm and even applying the pre-emergent now can help. Good luck with this lawn season! ps,,,,One conclusion that I've come to is that applying insecticide (which I really hate to do) really helped our lawn. Best to apply early July and early August. Thanks for watching and asking a question!

@travisfaircloth

2 жыл бұрын

Are you supposed to water that 0-0-7 Lesco in?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

@@travisfaircloth Yes, but I usually just apply it and let the rain take care of it. If you live in the coast of SC this week we are expecting showers for 3 days , so today or tomorrow would be an excellent time to apply it!

Murrells Inlet?

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the best place to live, at least in our opinion!

Good tips. Put the camera at normal height. It's uncomfortable looking down at someone.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful and thanks for the camera advice!

Bonus S is too high in nitrogen. A Centipede farmer told me to use a triple 13. I know you want that Atrazine, but it's said to be 100 times worse than Glyphosate. That St. Augustine will take over if you don't watch it.

@TravelwithNJSteveandSue

8 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for the tips!! I know they say that about the bonus s but we use it sparingly in the spring after things warm up and have not had any issues. And so far the St. Augustine , it has just grown in the areas where the centipede was weak and where the centipede is strong the Augustine seems to be staying away. Thanks for watching and thanks for leaving a comment!