[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by CTgolfer

We too have St. Augustine. Winter 2009, we had considerable problems caused by winter freeze and chinch bugs. Winter 2010, my husband took a different approach. On the months that the landscaping company does not fertilize, he fertilzes and the same for the lawn pests. In other words, we are fertilizing and doing lawn pest control 12 months out of the year rather than 6. Yes, this may cost more, but we aren't replacing our lawn this year and it is absolutely beautiful. His theory is that if the lawn is not healthy, it can't recover from the problems we are encountering, and keeping it healthy requires more service than we are getting from the landscaping companies.

As long as you're already doing it 6 moths why not just do it all 12 and save some money? All let them do it all 12?