Bermuda grass question

You should have applied a pre emergent in mid February. Go online and order either barricade or dimension. Since you didn't I would go to a co op and buy msma. Msma and 24d are the only post emergent you'll need for bermuda grass. Msma will kill crabgrass and most grassy weeds and of course 24d for your broadleafs.

Mid February even in Birmingham? My grass is still completely dormant now.

Thanks for the info.

Am I going to hurt or help anything by putting it out this weekend?

Isn't that the one that will kill the grass too? So spot spray I'm guessing.

No it will not kill your bermuda. Now if you had centipede or st Aug it would kill it. It will cause slight yellowing to bermuda that only last about 5 days. It absolutely smokes crabgrass and most all grassy weeds.

The annual bluegrass you have will die when temps get up. I would wait until mid April and blanket spray your whole yard. Like I said your lawn will yellow for about a week but trust me it will come back. At that time hit it with a high nitrogen fertilizer I use 35-0-0, water it good and prepare to have a beautiful lawn. In the heat of summer make sure it's getting a minimum of 1 inch of water a week. You're welcome

You the man. Thanks again sir.

This is full strength surflan---a very good pre-emergence herbicide that gets crabgrass and some small seeded broadleaf. Not only it is good on bermuda grass, it is great in flower beds and such. It is packaged in Louisiana too and is guaranteed. I used it last year--great of crabgrass on any established grass even centipede and St. Augustine.

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While it is best to put pre-emergent herbicides down when all grass seed is dormant and not trying to germinate it does the work of keep grass seed from germinating anytime you put it down. It will control crabgrass applied now unless you see green growing crabgrass already.

It will also keep bermuda grass from coming up in your flower beds from seed applied anytime.

MSMA is no longer available for turf applications.

MSMA is still labeled for golf courses, roadways, and home lawns. No more sports turf.

It can be sold until existing inventories are gone.

The only labeled use now is cotton, golf courses, sod farms and highway right of ways. It is more than likely only cotton will be left after 2019.

You can read more here LINK

If you happen to like MSMA and know where a supply is you should buy it and hoard it.

I assure you residential use of MSMA is over once the supply of previously labeled (before 2013) is gone.

It is an arsenical product and would not be allowed on any turf now if the EPA hadn't backed up in 2013 and agreed to retest until 2019. Nobody expects it to last on anything but perhaps professional turf and cotton.

Any person spraying for hire MSMA outside the labeled uses is taking a very big risk.

I would not want to be found spraying landscapes with an arsenical product that was not labeled for that use.