Btw it has Not been mowed since last wed ;)

No weeds, and Lol you can tell an OCD person lives here huh hahahahaha :( I hate that I have OCD but trying to work on that ..not easy!! anyways yeah its like different shades like a "kelly" Green and a darker Green... Perhaps just needs to balance out..may is a funny month here cooler nights and the days the last few have been 70 and windy which feels like 60 and had frost like a few weeks ago ..what height do you mow on??

I cut at about 3" right now, and will be raising due to summer heat. In PA you should be able to do 3" through summer no problem, especially with irrigation.

I think another round of fertilizer is due right about now in your area. Milorganite or anther slow release would be fine.

Keep an eye out for weeds. Last you posted you said you applied pre-emergent and then aerated a week later. Well, core aeration will destroy the pre-emergent barrier. It may not be a big deal if you've applied pre-emergent in previous years and the seed bank is depleted, but still, something to watch out for.

Speaking of which, most big box store pre-emergents only last about 3 months, so you may be due for another round. Check the label on the product you applied early spring.

lisa-marie, maybe you can help me with my yard. The neighbor's lawns all look better. See what I mean...

My last lawn I allowed to grow until it stopped growing. For the record, St Augustine seems to stop growing at 32 inches high. I cut it down with a string trimmer to 18 inches and it looked perfectly manicured from a distance. Later I cut it down to 12 inches and later to 9 inches. As long as it is all the same height it looks manicured.

As we have probably lectured you time and again, weed n feed is a poor product to use under any circumstances. For your lawn. with no weeds to begin with, it is a total waste of herbicide, not to mention an assault on your soil ecosystem.

As I recall you have also pooh-pooh'd the idea of deep and infrequent watering. How often are you watering now?

I haven't watered much because it rained SO much the last few weeks on and off and again tomorrow.. and I know NO weed and Feed Next Yr. but I will fertilize Obviously. ;)

I haven't watered much.

Here's an example of deep and infrequent watering. It's almost June in Texas and I've watered twice. We've had a dry and arid spring. It rained early and stopped, but we had high humidity and overcast skies which helped keep the evaporation low. More recently the skies have cleared and humidity dropped. I watered about 3 weeks ago and last weekend we got 1/2-inch of rain. I mowed yesterday. The prairie grass weeds were very dry but the St Aug was very lush.

Is there a photo gallery of posters lawns that we can look at? I'd be interested to see what others' lawns look like.

I don't think so. Start a thread on it.

Poa Triv and Annua have been a problem for this area this spring. (I am in NE Ohio.) Close up pictures will help.

Awww, Don. Where did you get that kind of practical suggestion. Lisa, have you checked real close to see if you might have a weed and not recognize it? Poa triv and annua look like your lawn grasses but they are a lighter color.

LOL Don. Poa triv and annua are a big problem every spring in NE Ohio!

Haha, I know it...but we have been pretty wet and they're an even bigger problem. I'm seeing triv everywhere.

My tips for triv? Don't irrigate in summer--let your lawn go dormant. Limit phosphorus, even if your soil test says it is low. Mow no highter than 2.5" until spring seedhead season has passed, then mow high. Hit it with Tenacity early and often from winter thaw out through early May. Triv and annua are the first to wake up from winter and easier to ID.