True Dave - it is amazing where things will grow - usually where you don’t want them! Down here we have to fertilize a few times a year because the heat is so tough on the lawn. Usually in august we need the nutrients just to keep the lawn from going into distress due to the heat and lack of rain. I hate to waste water but don’t want to have to put in a whole lawn next spring if this one dies. HOA’s are pretty strict about lawns down here - and no one wants to be the one house on the street that has a crappy looking lawn.
I decided long ago that mandatory HOAs are an invention of the devil-they encourage planting non-native species, the use of chemicals and the waste of natural resources-like water...