Thin patches near the driveway. Blades that crisped and never came back. A section by the sidewalk that keeps spreading brown no matter how much you water it.
That last detail is the interesting one.
Here’s the trap in a Texas September. Four completely different problems produce nearly identical symptoms, and the wrong response makes several of them worse.
Drought stress looks like insect damage. Insect damage looks like disease. Disease looks like a lawn that needs fertilizer.
Reaching for the sprinkler or the fertilizer bag without knowing which situation you’re in is how people spend a whole fall fixing nothing.
The good news is that St. Augustine recovers well when conditions cooperate, and September conditions usually do.
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