I'm concerned that you might not understand what corn gluten meal does, and that might really mess up your garden. Corn gluten meal inhibits germination. It's not something you want to use where you are seeding, and you also wouldn't put it where there are already overwhelming weeds. After transplanting, you can put it around your plants if you aren't planning on seeding anything else in that soil in the next three months. After your direct seeded plants are well established and you've removed the weeds that are already there, you can apply corn gluten meal. Be aware that it won't kill perennial weeds that spread by runners or stolons, it will only prevent the weed seeds from germinating. In some gardens, this may mean giving the bermuda grass (my hardest weed to eradicate) less competition from easier to pull annual weeds.

1. Black medic Spot spray with Weed-B-Gone if you don't want to pluck it out. 2. Horse herb Spot spray with Weed-B-Gone if you don't want to pluck it out. 3. Kyllinga Sedgehammer might work. 4. Dichondra Spot spray with Weed-B-Gone if you don't want to pluck it out. Bonus pictures: Oak limbs. Live Oaks grow more like a shrub than a tree. New limbs will sprout on any branch or trunk where there is sufficient sunlight. Numbers 1, 2, and 4 will choke out your St Augustine. Horse herb and black medic work quickly. Dichondra is much slower moving but will come back from seed for years. Get it as soon as you see it because it drops seeds before you know it. Don't use weed-n-feed products. It is much better to fertilize with a fertilizer and kill weeds with a weed killer. If something seems to good to be true, it probably is. Weed-n-feed is one of those deals.

I agree with mulching. I worry about extending my garden beds due to the wild violets. We managed to pull the bulk out of the front bed, but it took an entire summer. My in-laws were visiting and bored during the day so would go out and dig down to the roots. They are persistent buggers! I have followed up this year by putting a second layer of thick mulch and taking any foliage off in order to starve the roots. Beside the stray leaf and weeding a lot before the mulch was put down, I have barely needed to weed. Whatever does grow through is weakened by having to push through the mulch. My lawn is almost 100% weeds dispite reseeding every Spring and Fall. I am planning on reseeding the lawn soon for the fall and then placing the feed pellets as an organic preemergent in the Spring. Might help with the garden, too if the lawn stops being one huge weed.... :)

Those humongous beetle grubs really do help break down organic matter into compost! When I opened one plastic bag of leaves, which I had been saving since spring, I was surprised to find nothing but pure black evenly moist compost. What???? When I emptied the bag I found about about 18 huge rhinoceros beetle grubs in it . Evidently a mama beetle had laid her eggs in the leaves, rain water had leaked in to provide moisture and those guys went to work making wonderful rich compost. The 18 grubs went into my compost pile to finish their life cycle and the compost into the hole where I am transplanting some yellow cestrum ... :-) Isn't nature amazing! Oh, and I had enough leaves to thickly cover the barely emerging weeds, which will be enough to smother them.