Bermuda grass questions

[albatros43]

I had Scotts last year and things were good, i started to use them this year and things went bad so I fired them. My neighbor uses tru green and his yard looks like crap, so I'm trying to do it myself.

I understand. Tru-Green does too many applications. We use Baco now and they do a pretty good job. It's just near impossible to time it right yourself and you don't save that much money honestly. Find a yard in the sub that looks good and ask who they use.

 

[emortensen]

It may not be a good idea to just cut back to watering once per week immediately. I would 100% cut back to 2 times a week unless you have just put out seed. Then as the temps cool down transistion to once per week and never look back. I just increase water duration in the summer and decrease it again for Fall and Spring.

Does your irrigation system provide good coverage? Properly spaced heads should provide that every point in the yard gets double coverage (i.e. gets hit by more than one head) Many of the yards I see are overwatering some areas while others are underwatered

I don't have inground sprinklers, so I spend about an hour each morning hand watering each yard. That's why the yard gets watered every other day. As for the lime, it looks like Pennington has some at home depot. Good enough? Do I add it to the regular fertilizer or do I just put it down by itself?

 

[emortensen]

I understand. Tru-Green does too many applications. We use Baco now and they do a pretty good job. It's just near impossible to time it right yourself and you don't save that much money honestly. Find a yard in the sub that looks good and ask who they use.

The best yard doesn't use anyone, she just mows and waters every day (sometimes twice) with her inground sprinklers. I don't have inground plus my yard is probably 5 times larger. She's the only one with inground, so the rest of my neighbors barley water. The 2nd best is mine and I feel it looks like crap, maybe not to other people.

 

[albatros43]

The best yard doesn't use anyone, she just mows and waters every day (sometimes twice) with her inground sprinklers. I don't have inground plus my yard is probably 5 times larger. She's the only one with inground, so the rest of my neighbors barley water. The 2nd best is mine and I feel it looks like crap, maybe not to other people.

I hate to be a pessimist, but hand-watering is awful and a system is worth the price. I did it before, and I'll never do it again. The bottom line is having a green line is expensive and time-consuming.

 

[emortensen]

I hate to be a pessimist, but hand-watering is awful and a system is worth the price. I did it before, and I'll never do it again. The bottom line is having a green line is expensive and time-consuming.

I don't work so I got plenty of time, it's a 3k job for someone to install sprinklers. I should have taken my wife's offer earlier this year to get a sprinkler system but since I don't work I was hoping to put the money into a pool. So far no pool, but we still have the 3k set aside. Maybe next summer if we don't get a pool.

 

[blake]

I'm fighting lots of weeds and crab grass in my Bermuda right now. A few weeks ago I doubled my mower deck height and upped my watering to 4x weekly (1" total, 0.25"/hr heads) and the whole lawn is very rich and green, but the weeds/crab grass are going crazy. I use King Green for lawn treatments and they tell me there's nothing to do this time of year.

A buddy told me to cut water way back while keeping the height tall and let the weeds dry out. I'm thinking about running two cycles per day once a week, 12:30 and 3am, which should put down 0.5" of water. I was also told that once the winter sets in and the Bermuda goes dormant I can broadcast with glyphosate (Round Up) which will kill everything but allow the Bermuda to come back.

 

[Hayata]

OMG I HATE CRABGRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

[emortensen]

I'm fighting lots of weeds and crab grass in my Bermuda right now. A few weeks ago I doubled my mower deck height and upped my watering to 4x weekly (1" total, 0.25"/hr heads) and the whole lawn is very rich and green, but the weeds/crab grass are going crazy. I use King Green for lawn treatments and they tell me there's nothing to do this time of year.

A buddy told me to cut water way back while keeping the height tall and let the weeds dry out. I'm thinking about running two cycles per day once a week, 12:30 and 3am, which should put down 0.5" of water. I was also told that once the winter sets in and the Bermuda goes dormant I can broadcast with glyphosate (Round Up) which will kill everything but allow the Bermuda to come back.

As far as i know the crab grass will dye off during winter, but you need to put down the crabgrass preventer in the spring. I would not spray it with weed killer as it will leave a giant dead spot, I would pull some of the stuff out of the ground. Little by little. I think you're probably better off waiting till early spring. Besides the crabgrass, the bermuda looks healthy!

 

[Rzr570]

With this heat, not possible.

I disagree

 

[emortensen]

I disagree

What's your advice? I have heard to water more, raise the mower, and lime.