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re: Establishing Bermudagrass over existing Centipede

Posted on 4/22/21 at 11:29 pm to
Posted by HighlyFavoredTiger
TexLaArk
Member since Jun 2018
880 posts
Posted on 4/22/21 at 11:29 pm to
The home we have now has centipede, previous owner had it sodded, it’s 8 years old now, first time I’ve ever dealt with it and Lord willing, it will be the last.
My 5 previous lawns have all been St. Augustine or Burmuda, I’ve never had a lawn grass that was as finicky and had to be babied like this centipede, which is a lot of babying when there’s 2 acres of it.

It has to be cut just the right height, if you cut too low, it’s bad, if you cut too high, it’s bad, it doesn’t tolerate mower wheel traffic even with normal mowing, you can see discoloration in the grass on every tire path. The soil has to be almost perfect pH, almost perfect water retention, almost perfect leveling and almost perfect soil content or the grass will die In spots, get Brown patch, get Large patch, get Take All Patch, get sod worms (webworms), if you water too much, it’ll do all that again, if you don’t water enough, it’ll do some of that stuff again. If you fertilize a little too much, it’s bad, if you don’t fertilize enough, it’s bad. If a spot dies, it takes months for the grass to fill back in even a 1 ft by 1ft area.
I have spent more time, money, work and worry on this 2 acres of centipede over the last 2 years than I have in all my lawns combined over the previous 30 years, it’s just too much of a hassle to maintain and if we knew we weren’t gonna get transferred, I’d pay ALOT of money to have it all cleared off and sod with something else, anything else except centipede.
This post was edited on 4/22/21 at 11:56 pm
Posted by good_2_geaux
Member since Feb 2015
741 posts
Posted on 4/23/21 at 4:36 pm to
I’d rent a rotary till lawn tractor and start over but with the crazy rains we get here, I worry it erodes the seed and fresh tilled soil.
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