You may be right about the water to the grass, but not the methods and how
much water. I've tried every imaginable method of watering, soaking to high
frequency light watering. Sod placed on topsoil brought from elsewhere.
The native ground is typical hill country, rock, gravel like, poor soil.
Front yard has steep downgrade to front. The grass only extends 10 feet
beyond the house on the brought in topsoil that's all around the house.

My brother, who lives on the north side of Canyon Lake has two lemon trees
that do well. Don't know the exact species. That's where I got the seed
for the seedlings growing now, lemons he gave to me that came from one of
those trees.
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Jonny
"Jangchub" wrote in message
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St Augustine works perfectly in full sun. You are not watering deep
enough, so that's your problem. Not to waste water, the areas where
my St Augustine crisps up I place concentric circles of drip hoses and
let them run for several hours, or till the soil is moist to about 8
inches.

Lemons are not hardy here in Austin. I have two Meyers lemon trees.
A variegated and a plain green. Every year I have to prune out
braches growing from the base, growing in toward the center, and
anything smaller than a pencil lead. They require shaping to look
like a tree.

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:15:15 GMT, "Jonny"
wrote:

Wanna try some lemon tree growing. My grandma had a good sized orange
tree
out in her backyard. Do remember it had alot of surface runners, but not
as
bad as pecan trees. 3 lemon trees growing from seed now in a planter.

On a related topic, I sod planted some St Augustine last April. I
specificed high sun tolerant variety (don't remember the exact species).
Well, as noted by last year and this year, it kinda dries up and looks
like
its gonna die after an all days' exposure to the sun. The highly shaded
areas, it does well. Cloudy days, seems okay in most of it. Sold product
I
didn't specify, but now I'm stuck with it.

Want to plant lemon trees for long term growth to eventually shade the
house, grass, and front yard from the southern sun exposure. This is
where
the St. Augustine is having most of the sun exposure problems. One side
of
the yard has the primary sanitary drain pipe to the septic tank around 20
feet away from where I want to plant one lemon tree. Pipe is between 4 to
8
feet in depth within the yard as it goes downhill to the septic tank.
Drain
pipe is rigid PVC schedule 40. Will this be problem in the future?

The other side of the yard is no problem, too far away from the piping.