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What’s the downside on Bermuda grass?
Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:47 pm
I want my backyard to be fairway like and I’ve been recommended to get Bermuda grass. Who’s got something like this? I wouldn’t actually mind getting a reel mower to keep up with it. Thoughts?
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Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:51 pm to BengalBlood81
Hard to control, if you have landscaping.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:57 pm to FlyinTiger93
Just planted some seed about 1 1/2 weeks ago in some newly cleared property. Have Zoysia and St Aug at my current house. Hopefully this rain will help!
Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:58 pm to BengalBlood81
Use the tiffway 419 variety. Bermuda spreads easily and can get into planting beds but that also makes it a good lawn grass.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 3:59 pm to BengalBlood81
Won't tolerate any shade is the biggest downside.
It can be as maintenance free or intensive as you want it to be.
It can be as maintenance free or intensive as you want it to be.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 4:03 pm to Puffoluffagus
I saw the tiffway variety on Woerner’s website and looks to be what I need. And how much shade are we talking? The backyard gets sun for 5ish midday hours but there are times where the house blocks the morning sun and the trees in the neighbors yard blocks the late afternoon sun
Posted on 6/18/21 at 4:04 pm to BengalBlood81
I had it at my old house, and hated walking on it barefooted. It grows VERY quickly, so I was always fighting it along the edge of flowerbeds.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 4:05 pm to BengalBlood81
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The backyard gets sun for 5ish midday hours but there are times where the house blocks the morning sun and the trees in the neighbors yard blocks the late afternoon sun
It will live but not be fairway-like. It really needs full sun. Consider other varieties for partial shade areas.
ETA- if I wasn't lazy I would snap some pics of my nieghbors bermuda around their crape myrtle where it only gets 4ish hours of sun a day, and compare to a spot 10 feet away that gets full sun, and make my point, but like I said, I'm lazy. You just need to take my word for it.
Maybe try some fescue shade blend in your shady areas and sod the rest with bermuda, and let the grasses fight it out and determine their own boundaries long term.
This post was edited on 6/18/21 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 6/18/21 at 4:09 pm to Shexter
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It grows VERY quickly, so I was always fighting it along the edge of flowerbeds.
This is why God invented edgers.
It's also why Satan invented Roundup and green landscape paint.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 5:32 pm to Zappas Stache
Man, I find mine to spread really slow. I am doing a bit of a science project, trying to convert a carpetgrass lawn to Bermuda. There’s sparse Bermuda spread throughout. I’ll hit a spot of carpetgrass with Celsius, it’ll brown up and be that way for weeks, while the Bermuda in there stays green but just sits there. I figured it’d more aggressively overtake, once I remove the competition.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 6:48 pm to BengalBlood81
It does not tolerate shade. Have a tree? Pick a different grass.
Posted on 6/18/21 at 6:58 pm to turkish
Are you feeding it nitrogen?
Posted on 6/18/21 at 9:52 pm to Verdi
I could probably stand to do more.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 7:30 am to BengalBlood81
Mowing it twice a day.
In all seriousness, that shite does grow fast but stay super green. I neighbors a few house down had their entire front yard switched from Daytona to Bermuda and it looks like a golf course. They have a Yard Crew the maintains it but it fricking looks fricking fantastic when they arrive. I will walk down a take a pic.
Not sure what is up with the Greek statue that has been crooked for five years, but all that said their grass remains immaculate.
In all seriousness, that shite does grow fast but stay super green. I neighbors a few house down had their entire front yard switched from Daytona to Bermuda and it looks like a golf course. They have a Yard Crew the maintains it but it fricking looks fricking fantastic when they arrive. I will walk down a take a pic.
Not sure what is up with the Greek statue that has been crooked for five years, but all that said their grass remains immaculate.
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