Posted on 08/11/2024 9:09:39 AM PDT by TermLimits4All
So I have common Bermuda grass (not sure exactly what kind)here in the burbs of hotlanta. I have a crabgrass and clover issue that has been frustrating to control. I’d been using bioadvanced previously and it didn’t control the weeds like I thought it would. My grass is pretty green though. Any recommendations for my lawn that’ll help. My back will appreciate any feedback. Pulling those weeds are a pain.
Cement
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I let wild Bermuda take over my fescue yard because I like it. All the neighbors consider it to be a weed. I like it because it sinks 20-foot roots and I never have to water it. For years I weeded and herbicided it because of weeds, then one year I quit. It has lots of weeds in the spring, but I cut it as high as my mower will go (4””) and by June all the weeds are gone, squeezed out by the fescue. The Bermuda turns brown and looks pretty ugly during the winter, but it is the best lawn in the neighborhood in the summer.
I meant squeezed out by the Bermuda.
Bermuda IS A WEED all on its own!! Try with your life to get rid of Bermuda for a different grass!!!
Adopt some moles.
I have a real nut sedge problem. It looks good but dies early, too early.
You can grow fescue in GA? It is a hard grow in VA. I can’t imagine GA.
I live in an undisclosed location.
Same problem. If your soil is rocky and worn out, it is almost impossible to control the crabgrass, creeping charlie and other weeds. Only solution is to dig out the rocks, add fresh soil. Tedious and hard.
Fescue seems to die when the heat gets over 85 degrees in Georgia. I have Bermuda and Zoysia based upon the amount of direct sunlight.
Alternatively, hire some master gardener type to nurture your clover into a full-coverage clover lawn.
Also each state has a Land Grant University whose mission is, among other things, to support a county extension system to provide answers to questions like this. Here in Oklahoma that would be Oklahoma State, in Georgia I wouldn't know although I do happen to know that UGA DOES have a horticulture department, made famous by Coach Dooley's Garden. Consult with your local county extension for more answers, (although honestly you'll have less angst just paying a pro and being done with it.)
I wouldn’t even try to grow fesue down there. Do they even sell fescue seed in GA? If so it’s crimnal.
Roto-till or bobcat with a few dumptrucks full of dirt.
Pretty sure that’s why the Romans perfected cement in the first place
Up north, in Eastern WA State, our cool season grasses survive -20° to 120°F (with plenty of water in the latter). We do get Bermuda Grass infestations in less-well watered areas — I hate it and regularly conduct exorcisms to get rid of the Devil Grass.
a really great read is the history of the American lawn. the three most prominent leaders in the American lawn if today... Pennington, Scott’s and the United States Golf association. that’s history. before that anything that was green and could be cut short was in fact a “lawn”. including Bermuda grass. live well and may your grass be green.
The culture is aerate, overseed and fertilize in the autumn just in advance of the cool germinating temperature, nurture with water in the winter normally using a lawn sprinkler system equipped with a rain 'n freeze sensor to prevent ice sculptures, and then a careful fertilizer regimen in the growing season.
Done correctly (and with good, well drained soil), a shady fescue lawn can be green from St. Patrick's day to Christmas.
Oh yeah, also professional weed control in accordance to guidelines published by State Land Grant U. No preemergent in the autumn... think it thru.
It's a lot of work, but people like their green lawns.
Can you name the species of grass please?
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