To Much Milo?
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2.5k Front - 2k back - Transitioning from St Aug to Bermuda via seed and plugging
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I've got St. Augustine as well. I read somewhere in the past, hitting St. Augustine with too much Nitrogen can cause disease. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. If this is the case, I'd like to know how that would happen.Sam23 said:
-Stellar P
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I think it is because too much of the available energy is spent on new growth instead of the established part of the grass and root system leaving it more susceptible to drought and disease. I am still trying to learn so don't take that as gospel. LOL
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Ive put milo down at 4x the rate last summer and there was not burning, just lots of green up 
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If I can be honest, do you have money to burn? Because there are quite a few other options that will supply N to your bermuda for substantially less cost. You can get a bag of 28-0-0 and spoon feed your lawn multiple times for the cost of 1 bag of milo.
Agree with @Colonel K0rn here.
Wasting effort money easily doing milo that much and often.
Grab some quick release and you'll see better results anyways.
Wasting effort money easily doing milo that much and often.
Grab some quick release and you'll see better results anyways.
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Milo is a great St. Augustine fertilizer IMO. I'd like to see a cleaner feed stock formula but it works well. Can't really use too much. You'd wear yourself out trying to push enough N to cause problems. If you have problems with St. Augustine and all you are using is Milo, the problems are being caused by something else.
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In my experience, the only issue with putting down so much Milo in such a short amount of time is that it still takes time for your soil microorganisms to break down the material and convert it to N for your grass. I would wait 30 days to see how the last few applications change your lawn and adjust from there.
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