El, Not knowing your house water system layout and how you have done your irrigation take off from it, I could only makes a guess as to what is happening. The refrigerator ice maker is usually tapped onto a copper waterline stub coming from the wall behind the refrigerator. It should be part of the line that your outside house faucet line comes from. Are your front yard and backyard on two different water sources. I would expect you to have problems with other appliances and faucets in your house. Are you experiencing more air in your water? My recommendation at his point is to have a plumber/irrigation installer or anyone that can troubleshoot your water system. I would end up recommending something they would do very quickly but you may find difficult. I would take pressure readings at different points in your system. You may have a defective pressure regulator. Has the pressure at at your indoor faucets and washing machine gone down? Remove your irrigation connection and test the pressure and flow from that point. Remove the closest head to the each front yard zone valve and turn on each front zones. Listen and observe what happens at those removed irrigation heads. A slight hissing noise can either be a suction or too much air in the water. Either way it bodes that there may be a leak before the valves. The main idea I am trying to say is to check your water mainline sources. Your house is not old enough to have serious constriction of your waterlines from calcium build up. Hope you solve your problem and have a Happy New Year. JMHO Aloha

I suspect that's too much shade under the trees. Bermuda will not be the best for that spot. Ideally you would have seeded the bermuda in mid June to have the warmest conditions, but this year was not cooperating with the rain and overcast. Still you should have fit it in in the heat of summer for best results. That is crazy about the tree. Is the tree on her property or yours or smack in the middle? Are you renting or do you own the property? I would suggest taking down the chain link at this point, but don't waste the money if you're renting. It is amazing how much difference the deep and infrequent watering process makes. Also if you have not fertilized recently, you might try organic. I use alfalfa pellets or corn meal from Ful-o-Pep on Roland east of WW White. 50 pounds should be under $15 or $10. Application rate is 15 pounds per 1,000 square feet, and it takes 21 days to see the results. With this cold front it might take a few days longer if you were to put it down this weekend. If you buy it now and don't use it all, go ahead and use it all anyway. You cannot hurt anything by overdoing these products. If you leave it in the garage over the winter it will be buggy in the spring. It's still fine to use, but just a little icky. So next April is the time to evaluate what you want to do with the back yard. I think it could be too shady for bermuda. If it seems slow to awaken and turns thin, then shade is the problem. The best place to get St Augustine is Milberger's Nursery at 1604 and Bulverde Rd inside the loop. They sell 14 pallets of St Aug every day, so it's always fresh. Lowe's and HD sell 1-2 pallets per week, and it always looks diseased. Milberger's is also about 1/3 the price of Lowe's.

I've also seen on here that Roundup, a tiller, time and patience will also get rid of the bermuda grass. I'm pretty sure you didn't see that here. The only way I know that works to kill off bermuda is shade. You might be able to get it out with Round Up, time, Round Up, time, and Round Up. It has to be growing for the Round Up to work, so that limits you to spring, summer, and early fall to kill it. For the average home owner, seeding rye for winter green will weaken the bermuda the following year. Why? Remember the shade mentioned above? The tall rye in the spring provides enough shade to prolong the sleep time for the bermuda. In many cases the bermuda will have died back (not died out) and will be thin and weedy the rest of the season. The reason golf courses and some other sports fields overseed with rye and get away with it is they have access to an herbicide that home owners cannot buy. They kill off the rye before the bermuda awakens leaving a brown yard for a couple of weeks, but then the bermuda is not weakened. Sodded bermuda is one of the best lawns you can have. The secret to keeping bermuda immaculate is to mow at the mower's lowest setting 2x per week, water deeply and infrequently, and fertilize monthly during the growing season with a high N fertilizer like urea.

I used to live in Atlanta & had fescue. I think you'd be able to grow it but would require watering it to get through summers. Still, there may be a period during the summers where at least some of it it browns out even if irrigated. It's difficult to start it in the spring. Fall much better. No experience seeding zoysia but I heard it's a slow process ... which invites a weed fight. Seeding it is not going to achieve the same texture as sod because sods are vegetatively propagated cultivars. That is not to say a seeded zoysia lawn would not look good. I don't know what it would look like. I always thought the zoysia lawns were the prettiest in winter if people kept them weed free. Green weeds destroy the look. If you go the zoysia route, report back as to how the seeding & growing process went.