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re: Can I mix other grasses with Bermuda?

Posted on 7/7/23 at 2:44 pm to
Posted by Tifway419
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 2:44 pm to
If you have the time, push it with nitrogen and cut low/often. That’ll help the grass use its energy to grow laterally and establish more roots instead of just up (if that makes sense).

Just be careful in this heat. Don’t really want to stress it out by cutting too low
Posted by Earthquake 88
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 4:06 pm to
I’ve been cutting on the 2” setting which is a little high and I know it. I’m trying to kill the remaining weeds with Celsius and Sedgehammer. I think I’m down to one or two more sprays and I should be relatively weed free. By allowing it to grow taller with this rain I can get the weeds to show themselves better. When I drop to say 1” or 1.5” I’m having trouble getting that nutsedge to show itself. I’m almost there. Words cannot describe how weedy these yards are over here. Seems like that hurricane we had over here a few years ago really made entire neighborhoods yards look awful. Factor in cold snaps late into spring and a lot of these yards were weakened badly. It would help if a lot of these neighbors actually tried to kill their weeds. A large portion just don’t care and it spreads back and forth with shifting winds, birds, etc. from yard to yard. I’m making a serious effort to get all the weeds gone right now.

Would fertilizer would you recommend. I have been using up the last of my Lesco 15-0-15 with 3% iron. I know that’s not ideally what you feed bermuda, but what I have is bought and paid for so I have been using it. When I lived in Arkansas we utilized heavy nitrogen fertilizers but I’d appreciate any insight you might can offer especially with this heat.
Posted by Tifway419
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 4:47 pm to
Wait about 2 days after you cut to spray the herbicides and at least 2 days after you spray until you cut again. That gives the weeds enough time to grow before you spray and enough time for the herbicide to work before you chop the leaves with poison off and away from the root.

As far as fert, this is how I remember the macronutrients: Nitrogen pushes growth, Phosphorus helps establish the roots (somewhat what you’re trying to do), and Potassium helps overall health.

Use up whatever fert you have, the high potassium is actually great right now for the summer heat and drought. I’d move to a more high N and P content next. Probably some kind of “starter” fert. Once the Bermuda is well established then back off of the phosphorus which could cause excessive thatch buildup over time.
Posted by Earthquake 88
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 5:31 pm to
That goes along with how I think too. I tell you what I have got to get done is get this yard leveled off better. This was farmland and pecan orchards at one time. Over the course of 6 years this yard has kind of sunk in some spots. I know how to fix it properly, but I need a good bit of some dirt sand type mix to top dress it off. My guess half a dump truck load or more would do the trick. While I’m going through a complete change in cultivar I might as well do it right.
Posted by ronk
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 7:56 pm to
I am neither Ron Henry nor Ron Strahan. And npk is up, down, all around.
Posted by Hopeful Doc
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Posted on 7/7/23 at 11:19 pm to
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Just popping in to say that I really enjoy the vast depth of knowledge you drop free of charge here. It’s helped my yard a lot.
Posted by RetiredSaintsLsuFan
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Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 7/8/23 at 6:14 am to
My Bermuda lawn is three years old this year. I did not do anything the first year except to water some. The second year I used Scott's weed and feed and it did not do very good. This past fall I put down some Lesco pre-emergent and in the spring I put down some Sta-Green Performance Max. My grass is getting thicker and I have to mow it every 4 to 5 days now. It has never looked this good and it is seeding constantly. Getting rain or watering it helps a lot. I mow mine at 2.5". I just put down a second application of Sta-Green.
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