Help Me Save My Lawn

[gatt40]

I’m loosing the battle. I have an armadillo that is tearing up my lawn I believe lookin for grub worms. I have found a few worms and sure that is the biggest part of it. Also my Saint Augustine virtually has no root system. People have said that’s a sign the worms are eating the roots. I’ve tried broadcasting insecticide twice but it calls for watering it in. I can’t depend on rain. I’m in Corpus and our combined reservoir capacity is less than 19% and we’ve entered stage 3 water restrictions, so now all irrigation is prohibited. There must be some type of liquid insecticide that will kill grubs. I’m asking for recommendations. Please help. Thanks

[Death from Above]

Live trap and pellet rifle.

[Calrob]

Top Choice is a granular insecticide, it needs to be watered in to kill anything, but, animals hate the smell of it and will quit digging where its applied. Acelepryn liquid insecticide for grubs works well if you have the ability to spray it.

[tpack]

Take All Root Rot (TARR) is a fungus that you might be having issues with as well. Even healthy lawns can have grubs and no harm is done. It`s the number of grubs you have per square foot that is important. Lots of information on YT and several lawn forums about TARR. I had it about 10 or so years ago and it can be hard to get rid of. I used Peat Moss with pretty good results with a good fertilizer and watering program. I don`t know of anything that will kill grubs without watering it into the ground to get to the grubs.

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Take all root rot is what I was thinking. It is a PITA. I started over 100% on my yard years ago. I treated the grass every 60-90 days for prevention of it afterwards. If you stop the prevention I bet it will come back.

[Sasqy]

Corn meal !

[RMW]

Wrangler at 14 oz per acre in the spring and another 14 oz in the summer, and another 14 0z in fall you have to kill the June bug, grub cycle not just the grubs. This stuff works, I use on my turf farms where infestations are bad.

[RMW]

Here is the generic on Amazon

[tpack]

Here is the generic on Amazon

I bought this after I bought a backpack sprayer. Great price and it works good.

[Greenheadless]

Go to Turner’s and have them fix you up. Do exactly as they say.

They worked wonders for me when I lived down there. Corpus tap water is HIGHLY alkaline as well.

[dbaio1]

Has your St Augustine sod been aerated ? If not that is step one. You can pour all the chemicals and organics and will just burn money. For a good root system you need proper moisture control. Me and a neighbor rented a machine and did both our St. Austine lawns after both fighting one thing after another for almost 7 years. Within a year it was a game changer.

As far as the dillo. Remove or terminate.

Good luck.

[RMW]

Post some pictures if possible

[gatt40]

Thanks.

[locolobo]

Fancy lawns are over-rated!