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Best type of Bermuda seed?

Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:06 am
Posted by TechDawg2007
Bawville
Member since Nov 2007
32249 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:06 am
Figured I’d get better answers here. What the best type of Bermuda seed for the money to put down? Live in middle Tennessee. Also, best type of start up fertilizer to use after I put down the Bermuda seed? Thanks guys
Posted by TechDawg2007
Bawville
Member since Nov 2007
32249 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 9:31 am to
bump
Posted by bayou choupique
the banks of bayou choupique
Member since Oct 2014
1818 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:25 am to
i'd like to know as well
Posted by dfintlyHmmrd
Jigga City
Member since Dec 2016
1408 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:31 am to
Does it have to be a seed? Celebration is the best bermuda grass.
Posted by bootlegger
Ponchatoula
Member since Dec 2012
5337 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:37 am to
Haven't dealt in seed much, but when I did I used Sahara. Ready available, and (as the name suggests) is very drought tolerant.
Posted by I B Freeman
Member since Oct 2009
27843 posts
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:43 am to
Do not buy "coated" seed. That is snake oil. Get all natural seed with no coatings 95-98% pure. There will be a statement of purity and germination on the bag. A bag of coated seed with 50% coating has one half the seed in the bag as uncoated seed does. Coatings are cheap and seed is expensive. Buy seed. (Basically all the stuff you find at the home centers and Wal Mart is coated. Go to an independent and ask specifically for "uncoated" seed.)

No true hybrids are available from seed. Sahara is a variety of common and really is not much different from common. Plant the common, fertilize well every year and keep your mower blades sharp and you will be happy.

Hybrids like Champion are bred to take close mowing and will look like a golf course if you mow it properly---preferable very close with a reel mower. Realistically you are probably going to use a regular mower and will not be able to mow it as close and as often as it needs to be mowed to look like a golf course so just go with common and use high nitrogen fertilizer like 34-0-0 or 33-0-0 a couple of times a year and you will be happy.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 10:52 am
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