Definitely sounds like fungus and heat killed your grass. Watering at night is a no no when it's hot and humid. The prolonged moisture is an ideal enviroment for fungal disease. Tall fescue is one of the more heat tolerant cool season grasses, but not the heat you have. Also, you really can't successfully seed a cool season grass in summer in OK. I think the only cool season grass you could have success with is hybrid bluegrass. For your area a warm season grass like Bermuda, St. Augustine, or Zoysia would be the better choice.

whats the big deal??? that is what we call WINTER in MI ... lol ... it is amazing at their normal resilience ... the bigger problems is when it hangs on for many days or even weeks... consider yourself lucky that it was gone as fast as it was ... it is also a function of joining the WEIRDER THE BETTER CLUB ... so when you are done pruning.. let me know.. i am the founder.. and a charter member .... never forget ... mother nature is a cruel mistress ... you are not as beautiful as i thought .. rotf ... and i am impressed you had the snow gear for what you call an abnormal event ... right behind you on that pic .. whats that totem pole all about ... pruning with whiskey??? and why havent you been posting pix of your plants ... with the rest of us???? ... you show many i never heard of .... nor seen.. here in MI .... and how come you recognize the foreign guys .... i cant keep track of all these web names ... and reality ... thx for the pix .... you look like a kid in a candy shop ... ken

Oh, you're right, it is on the box. But who ever looks on the FRONT of the box for the ingredient list? 3.25% metaldehyde versus 5% sodium ferric. (If I'm remembering names and amounts correctly.) Doesn't sodium ferric sound like iron salts? Sounds like some sort of rust. Well, whatever it is, it is hopefully killing slugs. I don't usually like putting out poisons unless there's a need so just putting some out every month isn't probably going to happen. It also means I'd need to pay attention to a schedule and that doesn't work well for me. Probably what will happen is I will just wait until I see slug damage or slug trails again before reapplying any Corry's of any variety. I've also ordered some diatomacious earth which is supposed to deter slugs. The area being protected from slugs is a raised bed garden made of three layers of concrete blocks stacked and filled with soil. If a circle of diatomacious earth was applied around the base of the raised bed gardens and the Corry's killed off all the slugs in the gardens, would the diatomacious earth keep any new slugs from coming in? Do slugs lay eggs or somehow do something to propagate before they got killed off by the Corry's? If I put the circle of the diatomacious earth around the garden and new slugs hatch, they'd not be able to get out, although one hopes residual Corry's would do them in before they did much damage. Would a line of hydrated lime around the edge of the raised bed garden deter slugs? Hydrated lime on frogs will kill them and frogs and slugs seem somewhat similar?

Thanks turquoise & datdog-- My garden is on a hill and the terraces were there when my partner and I bought the property about 7 years ago. The terraces make the space easier to use but they were done at least 20 years ago, not very professionally, and the landscape timbers are sagging and rotting. I'm dreading the day in the not-too-distant future when they will need to be replaced! BTW I grew up and first learned to garden in upstate New York, and I don't miss those long winters one bit! Datdog, if you're in a solid zone 7 you should be able to grow fatsias. Mine have taken single digits (6 & 7 degrees) without leaf damage. They are generally rated as hardy to zone 8 but they are tougher than people think. In zone 7 they do need to be in a fairly sheltered location, mulched well in the winter and should be placed where they won't receive direct sun in winter. Being in the city, I'm fortunate to have some buffering against the really cold temperatures because of the urban heat island--we haven't had temperatures below zero since 1994. But I also know people who live outside the city and have even bigger fatsias than mine.