how to kill bermuda grass?
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Eliminating patches of bermuda in a fescue lawn
Comments (6)I had the same situation at my home in Southern California, primarily fescue but some patches of bermuda. After treating bermuda with Roundup for a year and it coming up next season I chose to dig out the soil with the bermuda including areas beyond where bermuda was figuring roots were there. I dug out probably 18" deep of soil. Guess what? Next season bermuda back. I think once bermuda gets in a lawn you're screwed....See MoreWinter kill dead Bermuda grass - how can I revitalize it?
Comments (1)There are many approaches. One is to let the grass you have grow in to fill. That might take all season. Another is to pull up the occasional piece of dead sod and replace it with new sod. That will speed up the process of filling in. Another is to pull up the sod and living grass and apply seed on the bare soil. You should know that bermuda seed is all based on common bermuda. Bermuda sod is based on a hybrid bermuda. They don't look alike when you have them together. Sodded bermuda is a clearly superior turf. They don't look very good together, but if you have mostly seeded varieties, then you won't really see the hybrid mixed in. Another possible way is to stolonize. That will be a lot of work. Search this forum for that topic. A guy from Australia wrote in and described it. Once you have grass established, you should not ever need to aerate or add sand - that is if you are taking care of it properly. Aerating would not hurt anything, but adding sand can be a problem. Someone else might write in with other ideas. I would suggest doing a little more reading and make a decision. We'd be glad to help you do whatever you decide to do....See MoreCan never kill burmuda grass!!
Comments (13)Yeah, I agree with the "it'll come back" opinion above. I had a side yard with alot of bermuda in it when I moved into this house in 2000. I sprayed it three times, cut out the top with a sod cutter as deep as it would cut and hand dug the tillers that came up in the fescue from the roots for a couple of years. Got rid of 99.98% of it. And still have a couple of spots I need to spot treat 9 years later. Sigh. I did eradicate it in the front yard and the other side yard by the same method and then... growing the trees there. Good luck with the battle....See MoreSolarizering to kill bermuda?
Comments (10)solarizing is removing plant growth, tilling the soil (VERY BAD when it comes to bermuda grass!), wetting the soil thoroughly, and using clear plastic...no thicker than 4 mil, for at least four weeks in the HEAT of summer. you need to have the plastic as close to the soil as possible and you hold it down my digging a trench and burying the plastic into the trench. i'm solarizing one of my raised beds right now for nematodes and on just the edges of this raised bed there are a few sprigs of bermuda grass that have somehow found thier way into this bed....i thought "cool, they'll die with this solarization!" because i've been pulling them for a few years now. no such luck. they're growing under the plastic like there's no tomorrow. this plastic has been down for four weeks now and i've had nothing but 90+ degree days...and i'm in the middle of a heatwave of over 100 degree days! this raised bed is in FULL SUN all day! so...if solarization can't even kill a few sprigs, i doubt it will kill a whole patch!...See Morejkochan
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