I don know what you are calling carpet grass, that is what we have always called St. Augustine.
I don’t know what you are calling carpet grass, that is what we have always called St. Augustine. I put carpet grass in my search engine, and apparently that is what they are now calling a type of grass that looks like centipede grass. I read some pretty wild ideas of curbing it, most of which siad it also damaged the St. augustine and Floratam ( which is another vaqriety of St. Augustine). I went to another site with a lot of grasses. It describes carpet grass as a shallow rooted grass that requires a lot of water. I water deeply to encourage a deep root system. This protects against out North Texas hot summers, and droughts. I water once a week, and when the top two or three inches are dry, there is still some moisture down where the roots are. Seems to me if you water deeply and get your St. Augustine roots to grow deep, then next summer, watering deep ( to a depth of at least 6 inches, and lettine the top few inches dry well will kill out the carpet grass. As soon as it looks like
