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With more maintenance, St. Augustine can provide a very desirable lawn with a thick, dark green, lush turf capable of crowding out weeds. The mowing height for St. Augustine is 2.5 to 4 inches. Shady lawns should be mowed at 3â to 4â. Generally, the lower you mow it, the more frequently you will have to mow, but the result will be a higher quality turf. St. Augustine grass should NOT be scalped in the spring like other warm season grasses.
St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) prefers the warm, humid climate and grows in a wide variety of soils. Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 8 through 11, St. Augustine grass is prized as a green to blue-green turf that grows densely and establishes rapidly.hinch Bugs. Chinch bugs are a major pest of St. Augustine grass, producing several generations per year. Immature chinch bugs are tiny, bright red insects with a white band over their back. The winged adults are black and about 1/5 inch long.