Bermuda grass questions

[albatros43]

I like having a good looking green yard, doesn't have to be a putting green. I will try the lime thing and continue to mow at the current height. Even though I don't work I can't imagine mowing my yard every other day, maybe next year I'll cut it lower.

A couple of times a week is usually a good idea, but that's hard to do for most. I cut every 6 days with a reel. I should cut more frequently, but I just can't do it. Try aeration as well.

 

[zesty]

I water every other day, mow once a week at about 3 inches high, and used lesco fertilizer. Why are some areas not filling in, why some areas not green, and why do I have dollar spots?

I didn't read the whole thread but nobody said this in the first two pages... I think 3 inches high is way too high. I cut my bermuda more like 1.5 in. A low spot I filled in was overgrown in a few weeks. It's trying to grow across my concrete sidewalk also. I use a service for fertilizer (7 times a year or something). Rain is the only water it gets.

Don't go straight from 3" to 1.5" height, you'll kill it all. Drop it slowly. At low height, Bermuda becomes a thick carpet that searches out area to spread to.

I'm no expert, just my experience with my own yard and a baseball field. Grass expert that sanded the field said the bermuda should be kept at 1.0".

 

[Glocksmith]

I didn't read the whole thread but nobody said this in the first two pages... I think 3 inches high is way too high. I cut my bermuda more like 1.5 in. A low spot I filled in was overgrown in a few weeks. It's trying to grow across my concrete sidewalk also. I use a service for fertilizer (7 times a year or something). Rain is the only water it gets.

Don't go straight from 3" to 1.5" height, you'll kill it all. Drop it slowly. At low height, Bermuda becomes a thick carpet that searches out area to spread to.

I'm no expert, just my experience with my own yard and a baseball field. Grass expert that sanded the field said the bermuda should be kept at 1.0".

What does it matter how high you cut a bare spot?

 

[blake]

All I know is my Bermuda looked like brown crap at 2" and looks lush and beautiful at 3".

 

[albatros43]

All I know is my Bermuda looked like brown crap at 2" and looks lush and beautiful at 3".

http://www.walterreeves.com/lawn-care/bermuda-mowing/

 

[clever name]

I didn't read the whole thread but nobody said this in the first two pages... I think 3 inches high is way too high. I cut my bermuda more like 1.5 in. A low spot I filled in was overgrown in a few weeks. It's trying to grow across my concrete sidewalk also. I use a service for fertilizer (7 times a year or something). Rain is the only water it gets.

Don't go straight from 3" to 1.5" height, you'll kill it all. Drop it slowly. At low height, Bermuda becomes a thick carpet that searches out area to spread to.

I'm no expert, just my experience with my own yard and a baseball field. Grass expert that sanded the field said the bermuda should be kept at 1.0".

Please post pics.

 

[Tskinne3]

THIS IS SO OBVIOUS! It's your soil!

First off, Bermuda grass is drought resistant. It only needs 1/2" per week of water. It can withstand eight (8) weeks of dry weather and still take care of itself. That's right, TAKE CARE OF ITS SELF. If you're doing all the work for it it won't fix itself.

Focus on the soil and that will take care of the grass. If you keep treating the grass and not the soil you'll have the results that you have now.

Aeration, Lime, and Milorganite will fix it. Fix your soil to fix your grass.

Learning the signs of what your grass/lawn is telling you what it needs is how to act on it. This is a constantly changing during each season month to month, week to week, day to day. That's just the facts about getting the lawn you want and putting in the work. No work no results- learn this and you will have great grass/lawn. You have to go with the changes THAT'S THE FACT!

Never , ever, never never use round up on Bermuda grass, ever for any type of growth.

Only use on Bermuda grass is to destroy.

Nitrogen is only good for the color green. You can't green a bare spot of clay.

You couldn't change your mowing height on any mower in the world to fix a bare dead spot.

Most likely you're watering with "city water" or "tap water" from your spigot. That water is treated to kill germs/bacteria and such. Then you put it in your soil and over water; so now your killing the stuff in the soil that it needs to promote health soil: healthy grass.

Rain water is pure water. It can't be counted on for regular watering so we use water that we have access to and than your counterproductive! I use filters and everything thrives!

Keep in mind the OP. We are talking to someone who asked a specific question, don't answer general questions off typic.

First off there are so many different types of Bermuda that you saying it's drought resistant is not true. You don't know what variety he has. It looks like 419 Bermuda but you don't know and can't be sure unless you look at it in person and even then you cant be 100% sure unless you know where it came from. And if it is 419 it requires more than a 1/2" or irrigation in the mid summer heat. And secondly you have no idea if it's his soil unless you do a soil analysis, which I've recommended earlier in this thread. So you probably shouldn't be spewing misinformation until you have hard evidence and know what you're talking about.

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[clever name]

Just cut it yesterday.

 

[albatros43]

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Just cut it yesterday.

Looks good but lots of half moons/circles. That's part of the reason I went with a reel. Those circles drive me nuts.

 

[Glocksmith]

First off there are so many different types of Bermuda that you saying it's drought resistant is not true. You don't know what variety he has. It looks like 419 Bermuda but you don't know and can't be sure unless you look at it in person and even then you cant be 100% sure unless you know where it came from. And if it is 419 it requires more than a 1/2" or irrigation in the mid summer heat. And secondly you have no idea if it's his soil unless you do a soil analysis, which I've recommended earlier in this thread. So you probably shouldn't be spewing misinformation until you have hard evidence and know what you're talking about.

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I'm PMing with the OP so we are on the same page.