The Kingwood Edition — Houston, Texas
The Kingwood St. Augustine Lawn Year — 2027 Edition
The Kingwood St. Augustine Lawn Year tells you exactly what your St. Augustine lawn needs — and the week it needs it — written for Kingwood's established lawns, under the Livable Forest canopy.
A 29-page calendar book (PDF), delivered by email. Not a national schedule with a Texas label on it — a program timed by soil temperature and the way St. Augustine actually behaves here: wide blades, runners on the surface, and shade that isn't a problem to fix but the condition the whole year is built around.
First, confirm: this is your lawn
St. Augustine shows itself: broad, blunt blades, a spongy mat three to four inches deep, and runners — stolons — that travel on top of the soil, never under it. That one fact drives the book's first rule: never scalp it. Cut the runners and you've cut the lawn itself. If your lawn is honestly Bermuda or zoysia, this isn't your book — editions are written per grass as well as per community, and The Highlands edition covers Bermuda.
What's inside
- All twelve months, in order, each with a Do list, a Skip list, and a Watch list
- The six rules the calendar runs on — mowing height, the shade split, feeding windows, and diagnose-before-you-treat
- The Forest Is the Landlord — the shade program: mow higher, feed less, water less often, and honest answers for the corners where grass simply can't hold
- Know Your Village and Section — how Kingwood's two layers of rules work, with the Kings Point rules in full. In every village whose documents we've read, the covenants regulate the condition of a lawn, not the species — your own village and section documents control, and the book shows you how to read them
- You Just Bought a Kingwood Lawn — the new-resident chapter: the upkeep duty that starts at closing, the tree rules that surprise people, and what to check before you plant
- The Usual Suspects — chinch bugs, large patch, take-all root rot, gray leaf spot, grubs, and fire ants: how to confirm each one before you spend a dollar treating it
- Every treatment named by its active ingredient — never by brand
The year turns on triggers — not on dates
Spring pre-emergent waits for soil to hold at 55° — the lawn's calendar, not the store's.
Fall pre-emergent fires on the five-day rule: five straight days with soil never above 70°.
The last nitrogen of the year. After that, potassium is the fall feed that carries the lawn into winter.
Chinch bugs get counted before they get treated — a soap flush over a square yard tells you whether treatment is worth it at all.
Get the calendar
$49
Delivered by email after checkout — usually within a few hours. One price, paid once — no subscription, nothing to renew.
Get the calendarSecure checkout through Stripe — pay by card or bank (ACH). One flat price.
Want the year on the garage wall? Add the printed 11×17 Garage Sheet at checkout for $12.99, hand-delivered locally in Kingwood. It comes only as a printed sheet — that's the point of it.
Or go all in: Flowers & Garden Beds for Your Home is $295 all-in — your lawn calendar plus a complete plan for your flower and garden beds, built from the exact species you have. One integrated plan for the whole yard.
One thing more, for owners. When something goes wrong anyway — a patch the calendar can't explain, a pest that isn't in the book — Kingwood calendar owners can buy a lawn consult: email photos and a description of the one issue, and a written plan comes back within 24 hours, Monday through Saturday. The details arrive with your book. The program is owners-only — the answer is written for your lawn, from your edition's ground rules, not for the average yard.
Keeping Bermuda in The Highlands instead? Your edition is here → Somewhere else entirely? Your edition starts here →