F...I am glad it is working for you now! Your mother is right. Floor dry is an absorbent product. Along with material like grass that breaks down quickly....you will have a mucky mess in the future. Aeriation in soil is critical. For now.....enjoy!

He he he... Now you know why they tell you never to seed into a sodded Bermuda.... It's like Dogs... Tell your buddy you want a Dog - and he shows up with something that looks NOTHING like the dog you already have.... Yes... It's true that it's a dog - just not the same kind... Same for Bermuda... Most of the cheap, box store varieties are what I like to call "Cow field" Bermuda.. That stuff is only a step away from the wild Bermuda they call "Wire grass"... The Turfgrass supply companies sell different varieties that are improved, darker green, lower growing, green up earlier and go dormant later... You will probably see names like Yukon, Princess77, and LaPrima.... but there are others too... Bermuda spreads like mad... If you want a consistent yard - and you already have *Some* bermuda... all you gotta do is fertilize the stuffing out of it all summer long starting after your 2nd mow. Check out the Garden guide on caring for Bermuda grass... It's incredibly simple... It's commonly referred to as "The Bermuda Bible"... This season - err on the side of More fertilizer rather than less and you will do better... (2+ lbs N/month won't hurt anything) You could also ask Mr. Builder what actual type of Bermuda he used and where he bought it... Buy some sod and lay it out in strips - 1 full strip, 1 blank strip, etc... With proper care - it will easily fill in by the end of the season... thus saving you a pile 'O money... Thanks

It's tough enough to get a new lawn to make it through the summer if you can water regularly. With watering restrictions, I'm afraid that if you put a lawn in now, you're almost sure to be doing it again late summer/early fall after the heat breaks. If I were you, I'd hold off and put up with what you've got until the fall. You might be able to make it with a small sodded area.

The key words are "natural base." What they did was take their regular synthetic fertilizer and add some chicken compost. Then the marketing guys had a dilemma: How to sell the stuff. Do they say, "Our same powerhouse of proven chemicals PLUS compost," or do they switch it around to appeal the the organic people and say, "We started with a 'base' of natural ingredients and bumped up the effectiveness by adding just the tiniest smidge of our tried-and-true synthetics." If you look carefully at the ingredients, it has all the synthetic chemicals in it that regular synthetic fertilizer has.