WHAT KIND OF YARD GRASS IS THAT?

When we bought our place 12 years ago we didn’t hardly have any grass growing in our yard. The previous owners had planted a few squares of Carpet grass in the backyard. Over the years those four little squares started taking off, especially since I had started watering our Big Oak Tree in the backyard that was looking a little stressed with the heat.
After a few weeks of watering Stace asked me if I had noticed the grass in the
backyard, I told him that I had noticed that the carpet grass is finally spreading (I
​grew up calling it carpet grass). Well the real name for it is Saint Augustine.

My sweet husband always pulls on my heartstrings, he was so excited about our yard having carpet grass. He said he has never lived where they had carpet grass, when he was growing up. He said “Most Farmers and Ranchers didn’t really have time to think about landscaping, life was about the livestock”.
When you look out our back door you see the backyard and you also see the Deer, Horses, and Goats.
So when I look up and see him looking out the back door, you would think he is checking on the livestock, but I can tell he is actually looking at the yard. Isn’t that the sweetest thing ever?
All this got me to thinking how to care and maintain Saint Augustine grass, so I started checking into it.
Saint Augustine grass is a coarse-textured, spreading grass that is popular throughout warmer regions of the Southern United States. It will turn brown with fall freezes and will be slow to green in the spring. It is the least cold tolerant of the warm-season turf grasses. 
After all the researching, all I can say is WOW! You have to be a scientist to grow this stuff!! Reading everything you’re supposed to do for this grass makes my head hurt! All we have done over the last few years is water and use our compost pile, we just spread it out on the yard and let it do it’s thing.
With that said here is the link to Texas A&M site and you can read what they say about how to care for your Saint Augustine (carpet grass) in your yard.
Stace’s mom, Claudia was told to contact her local County Ag Extension Office about her yard. She found out they will come out for free and tell you what needs to be done to your yard, Isn’t that great!? Claudia said they came out and told her what was wrong with the yard and was very nice about it. So if you are having a problem with you Carpet Grass Contact your local County Ag Extension Office if you have questions about your yard.
Hope this helps you who have this kind of yard.

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Blessings,
​Margarita & Stace