If it is St Augustine, daily water will lead to disease and dead lawn. 1. does look like crabgrass taken through a lens with Vasoline on it. 2. don't know 3. horse herb. This stuff will take over in St Augustine. 4. if the blade tips are blunt, then St Augustine. If they are pointed, then either zoysia or centipede. Centipede only grows under very bad conditions, so to get that dense it would have to be pretty neglected. If it responds well to fertilizer and water, then it is not centipede. 5. dunno 6. sand and thin St Aug - at least it looks like it from that altitude and focus level. If that is St Augustine or centipede, the herbicide I would suggest is this one. Read the directions carefully. This stuff is not something you want to get on you. You can only apply once a year. If it is too hot now, then wait until it cools off in the fall - read the directions. If you apply the chemical fert that lou suggested, you could go ahead and apply alfalfa pellets at the same time. App rate for YOU, first app of alfalfa, is 10 pounds per 1,000 square feet. That is because your soil has no nuthin in it. Wait 3 weeks and then you could apply at 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet thereafter. If you want it to improve at record speed, apply the alfalfa monthly for the rest of the season. Put some cat food or tuna cans out and time how long it takes your sprinkler to fill them. That is your target time for watering. The day you do that test is day 1. Then watch the grass carefully to see how long it goes before ANY part of it looks wilted. Then water a full inch again that day. Watch to see if it goes a day or two longer before wilting. As the grass matures it should go longer and longer between watering. Mow at your mower's highest setting.

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Find a lawn maintenance company that also provides there own internal weed control and fertilizer service and is licensed by the TDA as a commercial applicator. Commercial applicators are required to carry 100K/100K or 200K combined insurance as a condition to being licensed as a chemical applicator in the state of TX. Being a licensed applicator and not carrying the required insurance carries stiff administrative and/or civil penalties. I find Rick's comments about the state of DFW services to be particularly humorous and short sighted. "....all of the landscape people, are basically immigrant, and if anyone can even speak broken English, you are lucky, much less get someone who actually knows anything about plants." It is this way and this way in many other communities because we don't want undocumented workers in out country unless or course, it is going to be a benefit to my bottom line. Then it is okay. So you want a company like the company I run. Yes, my company is insured beyond the minimum state requirements. I spent over $500.00 dollars to become a licensed irrigator so my company is in compliance with the new 2010 TCEQ regulations when we repair your sprinkler system. I can repair it, modify it and install it. I know how to match precipitation rates in zones, I understand infiltration rates, slope, run times, cycle times and how to program/override the new ET controllers to ensure that your microclimate on the SW corner of your property remains green and lush in mid summer. I am a licensed chemical applicator. Not only can I take care of your turf and landscape at your home, I am also licensed to provide weed and pest control for your pasture and range land if you also own a hobby farm and I am also licensed to provide aquatic weed and pest control on any of your ponds you may have on that hobby farm. I need to attend a minimum of 16hrs of CEUs every year to maintain my professional certification which cost nearly $1000.00 to renew annually. On top of that, I am certified by the National Swimming Pool Foundation as a Certified Pool Operator. Add to that, if you would like me to landscape your area with native TX plants and or adapted plants with low evapotranspiration rates, I'll give you a landscape to die for. I collect and submit my sales tax to Austin on a monthly basis. My employees receive W-2s because they have legit SSNs. Because I collect and submit sales tax, my revenue/income is reported to the IRS. Over 38% of the time I'm working for the government. I offer credit card billing, no charge consults, my trucks are insured and my drivers have real TX driver's licenses. I also can use a computer and answer your emails. Now lets see, you can have that all for $20.00 a week and a couple of burritos every once in a while. In your dreams. The state of the lawn and landscape maintenance in the DFW area is the direct result of the customer and the customer's wallet. The customer has decided this is the standard of service they want. The customer directly supports the market they are complaining about. The customer can't have it both ways. If the customer wants better service; the customer needs to raise their level of expectations both in the service standards and what they are willing to pay for that service. I will now step off of my soap box and stop preaching.

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