WHY MY YARD DIED; a working theory

For you yard enthusiasts out there!

IF: you grow Seashore Paspalum on your lawn;

and IF: you leave the cuttings to bleed out nitrogen after you mow it (that is, you don't collect them in a bag, but leave them to "recycle" or "rot");

and IF: you buy a lot of lawn fertilizer and don't read the rate of application;

THEN: like me, you are guaranteed of causing what's called "scalping", or in extreme cases, "balding," formal name, LAWNUS ALOPECIA.

Grasses like Seashore Paspalum DO like nitrogen, but they can easily be overfed. Leaving grass cuttings bleeds nitrogen back into the soil. Lawn fertilizer spread indiscriminately also does the same. Too much of a "good thing" can cause your apparently healthy lawn to suddenly die as though touched by blight, with all manner of invasive weeds taking advantage (my case, clover, and the DREADED [can't hate it enough] NUT GRASS!!!! ARGH!).

So heed my advice... Be spare in the nitrogen. It could save your lawn- AND your life.