Brown Patch and What To Do About It

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This is the time of year that we really start to see a lot of the Brown Patch fungus in St. Augustine in Southeast Texas.  It doesn't normally kill your grass but it can make for an ugly yard! Brown Patch, also known as Rhizoctonia blight, starts as small circular brown areas in your yard around 10" in diameter and can grow up to 10 feet.  I did a search today for information about Brown Patch and how to treat it and came across a good article on The Livingston Parish News website out of Livingston, LA and I thought I'd just link to this excellent article instead of trying to recreate the information here. We do talk about it on our own website in our FAQs if you want to talk a look at that also. Once we get a good hard freeze that normally stops Brown Patch from spreading but it can do a lot of damage before that happens.  Check out...
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Summer Maintenance on St. Augustine, Empire, and Celebration Bermuda

Summer Maintenance on St. Augustine, Empire, and Celebration Bermuda

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Below are some links to videos about how to get your grass through the coming summer months.  These are links to Sod Solutions website; they are the good people who we license several of our grasses from including Empire Turf, Palmetto St. Augustine, and Celebration Bermuda.  Clicking on one of the pictures below will take you to Sod Solutions website.  ...
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Spring Maintenance

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Here at Murff Turf we sell several varieties of grasses that were developed by Sod Solutions, Inc.  The last few years they've been putting together some excellent videos about lawn maintenance and getting your lawn ready for the Spring and Fall seasons. They have they're Spring 2013 videos up so I'm posting a link to their maintenance page here.  Once at the page just select the video that pertains to the type of sod you have to get some tips on getting your lawn ready for Spring.  Or you can watch all of them if you're so disposed!  They have videos for Empire Turf and Geo (zoysia grasses), Celebration Bermuda, and Palmetto St. Augustine. Thanks for checking out our site today!  Y'all try to stay warm over the next few days!  Supposed to have lows in the 30s for the next 2 or 3 days looks like....
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Another Frost

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We had another cold night last night. The temperature got down around 34 degrees. That's not a problem for the grass really except that we also had a frost on the ground! Frost is what takes the color out of the grass this time of year. Our grass was much greener until we got a couple of frosts on February 14th and 15th. Those two frosts really knocked a lot of the color out of our grass.  And then with the frost last night it just keeps the grass brown and dormant and will take longer for it to be real green. The grass will really start to grow once the temps at night can stay above 60 degrees. Just wanted to give an update on how the grass is coming along.  Thanks for checking in with us!...
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Winter is a Good Time To Plant

Winter is a Good Time To Plant

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Just a reminder that the winter months are a great time to plant grass.  Yes, the grass you purchase will probably be yellow or brown because the warm-season grasses we grow in Texas turn dormant in the winter; but the grass is alive and healthy and can put down roots now and be ready to take off once the temperatures warm up. And since the grass is dormant and we usually receive regular rains in the winter months the newly planted grass requires MUCH less water from you to get established!  Usually one good rain or watering from you right after you plant is all you will need to do this time of year. Here's a couple of pictures from grass we harvested on Thursday, January 31st.  You can see it has a little green color to it but it doesn't have the normal bright green of spring.  But it is healthy and ready to be planted. We sometimes get asked why...
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