Bermuda grass

[Scottish Research]

If you have this type, please feel free to list your preferred type of weed and feed or just feed.

Trying to save this grass from one of my properties. It comes out of hibernation late causing problems, but it is drought resistant.

Thanks!

 

[unregistered190]

In my neck of the woods, Scott's Weed be Gone for Southern Lawns works great....feeding separately w/ 32-0-0 or something similar. But....I am tired of the upkeep of Bermuda so next year it is being replaced with Myers Zosia.

Interesting there is a new Bermuda on the market...."Discovery" which is supposed to require 75% less watering / maintenance

 

[Skinny Leaf]

Supplying your lawn with a good lawn fertilizer should be all you need. I would stay away from the weed and feeds. Once the bermuda grass is growing well then it will choke out the weeds growing with it.

I prefer St. Augustine grass, fwiw.

 

[unclefishstick]

you can have the bermuda grass in my yard,im trying to get rid of the crap,stuff is all but unkillable...

 

[HempKat]

I don't know much about Bermuda Grass myself but I have a neighbor that lives across from me who is a retired greenskeeper and he was telling me about it after I complimented him on how nice his yard looked. Anyway during the course of him telling me about it he mentioned that it's really only suited for places that get a lot of sun. His yard is pretty much all open and he gets pretty much constant sun all day long. I live just across the street from him but have several trees in my yard that creates a lot of shade throughout the day. He told me that because of that shade it would be pointless for me to try to grow Bermuda grass in my yard. So if you have a yard that has a lot of shaded spots it's probably not worth trying to save. If your yard is open though and you take good care of it it is good stuff that can stay nice and healthy looking without a lot of watering and it does get thick enough to choke the weeds out. The only bad thing is that like it has already been stated it is slow getting started and typically doesn't wake up until like late May, at least that's how my neighbor's is. The good thing though is that in the summer when everyone else's grass is going brown due to lack or rain/watering his lawn is a nice deep green.

 

[Scottish Research]

Filled 6 trash bags of weeds this season. Nuked the yard 3 times with weed killer.

 

[HempKat]

Filled 6 trash bags of weeds this season. Nuked the yard 3 times with weed killer.

My advice would be see if you can find a greenskeeper for advice. They keep acres and acres of grass covered land in prime condition and the best ones don't have to use a ton of fertilizer or "nuke" the hell out of it with weed killer and pesticides.

 

[KONY]

Supplying your lawn with a good lawn fertilizer should be all you need. I would stay away from the weed and feeds. Once the bermuda grass is growing well then it will choke out the weeds growing with it.

I prefer St. Augustine grass, fwiw.

This could not be more far from the truth.

On a unrelated note, love the thread subject. Bit more of a cool weather grass man myself.

I think bluegrass. I grew up inthe land of bermuda and st augustine though.

Filled 6 trash bags of weeds this season. Nuked the yard 3 times with weed killer.

You should be using something in the spring before the weeds emerge, then something in the summer for control of the ones that made it. I don't know which products to recommend, but I know there are 2 main types.

 

[zoor]

This is my favorite grass, it takes about 15 days to germinate and it's easy to grow: https://happyygarden.com/how-long-does-it-take-grass-to-grow/

 

[flylowgethigh]

There are different kinds of Bermuda grass. I have some of the "lawn" style and it can easily get over-run with weeds, especially crabgrass. In other spots I have wild bermuda and that stuff gets thick and will choke out all weeds and good grass. Very tough, drought and heat resistant. I encourage it to grow because fighting it is pointless.

 

[Tudo]

where? ( geographically speaking ) I've had really nice lawns in Ft Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Wellington. Takes a few bucks or a lot of work to get bahama grass really nice ( It can be done ) or else it looks just mediocre.


Had these long long weeds in Boca and a 1/3 of an acre. Would never ever have a great lawn if those weeds remained and some of them if you gently pulled them up and followed them would go a couple of feet! So what's a homeowner to do who has a hood full of kids? Hire them all that's what and one weekend I had more than a dozen kids de-weeding. Had the nicest lawn in the hood. That was a long time ago when I was in my middle ages. I don't take it so seriously now but then again I'm on the left coast and it seems that nobody takes it seriously here.


Have you sanded it? Do you have a sprinkler system?