New Bermuda Sod care

Bermuda is pretty damn hard to kill. Especially common bermuda.

It's all about the roots right now. It's always about the roots, for any plant. Roots die, plant dies.

Give a couple quick tugs on some of the sod squares, you'll know if its rooting down or not.

Don't worry about the color right now. Warmer soil temps, will begin microbial activity in the soil and will allow nutrients to be move readily available to the roots.

As far as fertilizer, you have 3 values. NPK(Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium) a bag will say 24-16-8 for instance. Thats the analysis.

To gain color, high Nitrogen values. To gain roots, high phosphorus and potassium values. Id try to find something that is a 1x2x2 ratio, 8-16-16 to gain more roots immediately.

Overwatering is as bad as underwatering, remember as well.

still could be in dormancy stage...also love loves loves sand. Make sure to sprinkle some sand out there from time to time. you have to get the ratios right with the fertilizer as other poster stated.

In my case, i just opted for a lawn care company. I've got too much other crap on my plate.

That’s not dead. Grassgets stressed when transplanted. Never let new sod dry out. Once it’s gets to 50% green up on its own you can fert it. Bermuda loves fert so use a high nitrogen feet. I use 33-3-6 on mine at a rate of 4lbs per thousand.

Do you know if you have common or tif 419?