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Originally Posted by tophcfa
The subcontractor that T&D used to re sod our lawn after a pool build told me they will only use Floratam sod. It is a St. Augustine hybrid jointly developed by the university’s of Florida and Texas A&M, hence the name Floratam.
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In our area they installed Scott's ProVista St Augustine. It supposedly grows slower than Floratam but the main benefit is that you can use glyphosate to kill weeds and it won't hurt the grass.
Our house backs up to a preserve and has a common area on one side so I get a whole variety of different weeds. The hardest ones to kill are torpedo grass and common bermuda which were a struggle. I thought I had Floratam but talking to a Greensmith tech who told me that I has ProVista. Once I found out I started using glyphosate once every couple months and it kills everything but the ProVista.
When we had our pool built I specified that they use provista.