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Centipede care calendar for zone 8

Warm winter with rare freezes, long hot summer. Warm-season grasses (bermuda, zoysia, centipede, bahia, St. Augustine) dominate; tall fescue persists in shade with irrigation. Lawns go dormant November–March and green up by April. Pre-emergent crabgrass control is the spring priority.

Centipede is the "lazy lawn" of the Coastal Plain South: low-fertility, low-mow, slow-growing, light-green. It is the grass for the homeowner who wants a real lawn but does not want to fertilize four times a year.