Fertilizing newly seeded Bermuda

You can put down any “starter” fertilizer. Something around 20-20-10 would be good. As far as weeds, you’ll have to live with them for now unless you want to hand weed. Don’t spray any herbicide until next year at the earliest.

Enjoy watching it grow!

Yes, definitely nuke everything. Even the Bermuda, it’s better looking to have just the La Prima than a mixture of Bermudas. Although I bet the common will find its way back eventually.

Read the bottle, but I think the new Round-Up concentrate formula says like 3 days or something. I’d wait a week though.

When the nukes come and it's all roasted, all that will be left are roaches, kudzu, and bermuda. Fertilize if you want. All I do is try to keep it out of places I don't want it to grow.

Is it ok to seed Bermuda mid-summer?

I did a hydro-seed a few months ago and it's come in fine, but need to fill out a bunch of areas.

You can but the germination rate will be lower than normal. What I would do is look at the radar and pick the rainiest and cloudiest 2 weeks to do it. Futurecasts aren't always accurate though.

I don’t have an answer on the %, but my average soil temperature yesterday was 98 degrees so that’ll be one of your biggest problems. You want it more around 65-80, but by the time it gets to that then you don’t have much time for it to grow and establish before winter.

I’d still try sometime in the next few weeks, but just note that if you put excess seed thinking you’ll increase the amounts of seed that germinates, you also run the risk of cannibalization where the fastest seeds to germinate will starve the others of nutrients and sunlight.

The Bermuda is starting to come in. Went ahead and put fertilizer out as recommended.

Now I’m questioning this “weed” coming in. A bunch single shoots of whatever it is. Hoping it’s not torpedo. Any idea? Maybe nutsedge?

When I first seeded some areas I felt like I had more nutsedge than Bermuda. Like ronk said, get the Bermuda healthy and thriving and don’t worry about the nutsedge yet. Give the new growth a few months before treating it.

When you do put down regular lawn fertilizer I highly recommend Sta-Green Performance Max. I used it this year and my lawn is the best it has ever looked.