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    Repairing Your Lawn

    Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute
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    Episode #302 | Original Air Date: April 27, 2021

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    Transcript

    When there are dead areas in your lawn, it’s easy to repair them yourself.

    First, try to determine what killed these areas. Check your irrigation for missed or overwatered areas, and look for insects or disease symptoms.

    In most cases to repair patches of turf, you’ll need to use either plugs or sod.

    Plugs are two- to four-inch pieces of sod planted at six- to twelve-inch intervals. Plugs can be purchased from a garden center or cut from pieces of sod.

    To fill bare patches immediately, use sod.

    Keep your soil moist until the new patches of grass are established. Wait 30 to 60 days after planting to fertilize your new sod and until there is good cover to fertilize plugs.


    Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute is a production of the University of Florida’s Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program, IFAS Extension, and WUFT-FM in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.


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