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Venice insect control in your lawn is a tough thing to control, even a healthy lawn can get harmfull insects, pest control has become more dificult each year because the insects become imune to the active ingredient, and the state and federal autorities control the industry a little more each year to keep polution in check.  Keeping your Venice lawn insect free has many compomnents, first of all keep your lawn from getting stressed, even walking too much on St augustine grass can stress it, too much water, too little water, make sure to fertilize every ninety days, make sure to use a slow release fertilizer or better yet install a EZ Flow fertigation system, this will insure each watering that all plants and turf are getting nutrients without polluting our water ways, granule fertilizer is hard to keep on your property, make sure to water in all granule fertilizer, this will activate it as soon as its applied.  Never apply too much, its better to apply smaller amounts more often than alot at once.  When watering through and automatic sprinkler system make sure you have a rain sensor that works, set times to run untill the water starts to run off the property, as soon as you see it puddling in the gutter, set start times to run about ten minutes per zone wait on hr, run ten more minutes, no more than three ten minute run times should be needed, this will cut your water consumption for lawns in Venice by about 66%  this is a significant savings in our ground water.  Just because its been raining does not mean we have to stop conserving water, water is very preciouse and not one drop should be wasted.  For more information on a healthy lawn in Venice visit www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com