Has your grass woken up yet? Winterkill? (West: house, live in)

[camelian]

Most of my front yard (west facing) was doing pretty good in the Fall. I have bermuda and with the exception of a few spots here and there, it was doing pretty well. After this past winter, most of it has yet to come back. It's rather weed filled, despite the pre-emergent I applied in February.

Did the harsh winter kill off the grass? I have St. Augustine on the north side of the house and most of that never came back. The south side seems to be doing fine. I live in 78754

[scm53]

My hybrid Bermuda is alive, green and growing. Today's rain will have it looking great by the w/e.

[RoadWarrior12]

My West facing side is taking much longer to come back this year than years past. Bermuda usually needs ground temps in the high 60's/70's to wake up all the way.

[atxcio]

St Augustine which is dormant looks different than St. Augustine which is dead.

Dormant is brown, but should have some green close to the roots. Dead is more gray and colorless. The cold we had shouldn't kill the grass (Bermuda or St Augustine); but the lack of water could. Even when dormant, it needs some water to survive. As far as not coming back yet, I think it's just coming in a little late. The soil just hasn't had enough time being truly warm yet to allow the grass to fully come back. But it won't be long now before it should be fully green -- days, maybe a week or two?

Cutting it might help, even if it's not growing -- mowing the weeds and sucking up any live oak leaves in the process should help.

[Komeht]

With any luck the winter killed off your St. Augustine dead and gone and you can replace it with something far more sensible for this area.

[RoadWarrior12]

Originally Posted by Komeht

With any luck the winter killed off your St. Augustine dead and gone and you can replace it with something far more sensible for this area.

Sadly, this winter wasn't nearly harsh enough to kill that stuff off. I'm not sure anything will!

[gpurcell]

Zoysia is perking up fine. I was beginning to wonder.

[JackGriffin]

It's not hot enough, certainly not for St. Augustine.

Are you sure your pre-emergent was applied properly? You may require post emergent treatment as well, but the best (not easiest) way is to keep pulling weeds by hand until you've got them under control.

[camelian]

Originally Posted by Komeht

With any luck the winter killed off your St. Augustine dead and gone and you can replace it with something far more sensible for this area.

I only have a small patch of St. Augustine and it is on the north side of my house. I think it's the only patch of grass that survived from the original sod when the house was built in 2006. Bermuda doesn't grow well there since it's always shaded. Otherwise most of the grass is Bermuda, which does pretty well with our watering restrictions.

Hopefully as the temps warm, the grass will come back. I think I still have a lot of winter weeds.