Lawn Treatment: Weed Control & Fertilization

A healthy South Florida lawn takes more than mowing. It needs the right fertilization, weed control, and pest and fungus treatment on a consistent schedule. Palm Beach Lawn & Pest keeps lawns green and thick from Boca Raton to Jupiter with recurring treatment programs tailored to our climate and grass types.

St. Augustine, Zoysia, or Bahia. We treat the grasses common to Palm Beach County and the specific weeds, chinch bugs, and fungus that attack them here.

Why South Florida lawns need a program

Our year-round growing season means weeds, pests, and fungus never really stop, a one-time treatment won't hold. A recurring program keeps the lawn ahead of problems instead of reacting after damage shows.

South Florida grasses like St. Augustine are prone to chinch bugs and fungus, especially in the hot, wet summer months. Timed treatments prevent the brown patches and thinning those cause.

The heavy summer rain leaches nutrients from the soil, so lawns here need regular, properly-timed fertilization to stay green, too much or at the wrong time does more harm than good, which is why a managed program matters.

Weed control for Palm Beach County lawns

Most lawn weed control near me searches in Palm Beach County come down to a handful of culprits. Dollarweed, nutsedge and torpedograss show up first in the wet spots: low corners, along the irrigation line, anywhere the lawn stays soggy from over-watering. Crabgrass, Florida pusley and chamberbitter are the summer annuals that fill in thin, sun-baked areas once the rains start. Broadleaf, sedge and grassy weeds each need a different product, so we identify before we treat rather than spraying one thing everywhere.

Timing matters more here than in most of the country. St. Augustine, the grass on most Palm Beach lawns, has no selective post-emergent herbicide for crabgrass that will not injure the turf, so the only real defense is pre-emergent put down before the seed germinates. In South Florida that window opens around the first of February, once daytime temperatures hold in the mid-60s, with a second application about 60 days later. Chamberbitter germinates later and gets its own round in April. Miss the window and you are pulling weeds by hand until next year.

Weed pressure is also a symptom. A lawn that is mowed too short, watered too often or starved of nutrients opens up and lets weeds in, so the weed program only holds if the fertilization, mowing height and irrigation are right too. We adjust all three on every visit and schedule fertilizer around the county's summer blackout; see when you can fertilize in Palm Beach County and our month-by-month lawn calendar.

Lawn care and pest control on one visit

Chinch bugs, sod webworms, mole crickets and grubs are lawn pests, not weeds, but they cause the same brown patches and thinning that weeds then exploit. Our lawn program treats them on the same schedule, and if you also want the house protected, recurring pest control rides along on the same route. Cities we treat: