Floratam St. Augustine grass sod is considered the most drouth tolerant St. Augustine grass for Corpus Christi and it’s surrounding areas.

Floratam St. Augustine Grass Sod

If St. Augustine Grass Sod is what you are considering then Floratam St. Augustine sod comes highly recommended for Corpus Christi, Texas.

Corpus Christi has a semi tropical climate and for that reason Floratam St. Augustine grass will flourish. You will find that of all the varieties of St. Augustine grass, Floratam St. Augustine grass sod does the best. It is truly the St. Augustine grass for Corpus Christi.

You can think of your landscape as tall palm trees blowing in the ocean breeze, beautiful beds of tropical shrubbery across and around the front of your home. And a plush Floratam St. Augustine grass front yard.

Floratam St. Augustine Grass Sod – Disease Resistant

In the early 1970’s the Florida and Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations developed and released Floratam St. Augustine grass. This type of St. Augustine grass sod is resistant to SAD (St. Augustine Decline) Virus. Floratam is also Chinchbug resistant.

Floratam St. Augustine grass is a little coarser than other varieties of St. Augustine grass. It has a deep red purplish color St.olons. The nodes average about 3″ in length. The leaves on Floratam are wider and longer than common St. Augustine grass but overall Floratam St. Augustine turf grass is more drought tolerant than the other varieties of St. Augustine grass.

Floratam St. Augustine Grass Sod and Cold Tolerance

The one drawback to Floratam St. Augustine grass sod is that it is not as cold hardy as some of the other varieties of St. Augustine turf grass. For this reason it is recommended that it not be planted north of IH-10 or Hwy 90, which Corpus Christi is more than one hundred miles south of IH-10. To help prevent cold damage you can use a preconditioning winterizer fertilizer on your Floratam St. Augustine grass. Use a 3-1-2 or 4-1-2 ratio at the beginning of the fall weather around the first part of October.

Floratam St. Augustine grass sod is highly competitive against weeds. The main reason for this is that it grows so thick that it shades the seedlings them so they get no sunlight and can’t grow. Floratam St. Augustine grass is also so thick that it smothers most other weeds that might get past the germination stage.

Floratam St. Augustine Grass Sod and Corpus Christi Soil Conditions

In Corpus Christi we have mostly black gumbo soil. Where on Padre Island the soil is sandy. Floratam St. Augustine grass sod does well in both of these soil types. In fact Floratam does well in a wide diversity of soils. It also does well under salt stress, which we experience here in the Corpus Christi coastal climate.

So all in all for our Corpus Christi, often dry yet, semi tropical climate Floratam St. Augustine grass is considered the best St. Augustine for our area. It was in the early and middle 1980’s Coastal Sod began selling Floratam St. Augustine grass. In fact we were the primary supplier of Floratam in the Corpus Christi area.