If you are experiencing heat like we are in southwest AR and lots of Texas then you better not go below 3 inches right now. Keep it watered. Bald spots will fill in eventually. Maybe next year when it comes back the spots will fill in. Also next year expect some winter kill of your first year Bermuda and plan to fight the invasion of weeds. Creating a perfect lawn takes continuous work, patience, and good weather, among other things. The quick solution would have been solid sod with an irrigation system but that is expensive. I'm a fanatic and have a 3 acre Bermuda lawn that is 5 years old. As much as I love the lawn I can't compete with 2 or 3 months of 100 degree heat everyday and virtually no rain. Forget the "beautiful" lawn for now. I'm just trying to keep it alive and I'm slowly losing ground. Hopefully rain will come and the temps will drop.......patience my friend, patience.

"Autek you moron, every golf course around Raleigh, heck all NC golf courses has Bermuda fairways/tees bent grass greens, and even some have Bermuda greens. I know I have a daughter in Raleigh who works at RTP, and I visit once a year and an avid golfer." Now down to personal insults... That shows what a low class citizen you are. Just because you visit RTP it doesn't translate into "heck all NC golf courses has Bermuda fairways/tees bent grass greens, and even some have Bermuda greens." You couldn't be more wrong. The western part of the state, zone 6 with VERY MILD summers use mostly Rye and Bluegrass. I know, I own a cabin there and play golf there as well and I've yet to see a bermuda fairway or tees even. The average high temeperature in the month of July (the hottes month) is only 76 degrees F with lows in the 50 s at night. No bermuda will ever thrive with those temperatures, but bluegrass and rye will; easely. You need to understand that NC is NOT Texas, and what grows in Texas does NOT translate it will grow in NC. Get that through your head if you can... "Sod farms don't do Yukon, it is a common variety from seed developed in Northwest Oklahoma for colder climates, where they measure snow in feet, not inches. Last time I was in Raleigh when it snowed 1/2 inch the whole city closed down and went into massive panic. So don't go blowing smoke how cold it gets there, I am not buying it." You're wrong here again. Sod farmers are going to grow what customers want (demand) wether seed or hybrid, IF is stays green for 11 months in Raleigh, sod farmers will grow bermuda from seed. Homeowners can care less if is seeded or hybrid, they want green, golf courses want green, so no, I'm not buying your hybrid story - maybe you can sell it in Texas, not here in NC. As far as Yukon being for Oklahoma and they measure snow in feet not inches, even better for grasses to have a thick coat of snow to protect them against cold temperatures. We don't have consistant snow here to protect any grass during the winter months, which actually makes it worst if you didn't know. Last time it snowed here in Raleigh was February 12, 2008. That's this year, not 10 or 20 years ago like you are playing down. I've live here 7 year and I have seen snow fall here every single year without fail. Schools might shot down because of safety reasons, but business operate as usual. I've never missed a day of work because of 1/2 of snow, maybe in Texas. We also get ICE wich is far worst than snow when it comes to driving, and you can't plow that. "Fescue and the cool season grasses are popular there for one main reason, all the darn trees. Heck you cannot find one thing in the area for all the trees blocking your vision. I hate the road system there, not one single straight road in the area. They just followed old deer and wagon trails though the forest." For me is perfect, just like Germany or many other beautiful roads found in many European countries. I can't stant dessert-like places with little to no flora, it's very deppresing to say the least. Fescue is the best adapted grass in Raleigh, extensive research will prove that, hense its domination. Trees, rainfall, temperatures, disease, etc, are part of what defines Raleigh's weather, and no other grass can handle those obstacles as well as fescue. Like it or not, fescue is king here in Raleigh. "When a poster wants to grow a specific variety I try to help them out, not convince them otherwise. Bermuda and Zoysia grow just fine in your area providing they get sunlight. All anyone has to do to find out what grows in any region is look at the local universities and product list of the sod farms." And if you do that, you will find that Fescue is what grows in this area and is the best adapted grass, not Zoysia or Bermuda. Zoysia and Bermuda, both suffer winter damage here every year, and if you really wanted to help some one, you would tell them othwerwise. But you seem to forget that NC is not Texas, and what grows in Texas does not necessarely grow here in NC. I hope you get this one day... "You seem to forget I am a sod farmer. We have networks and communicate through all 50 states. I know sod farmers in all the lower 48 and have met a lot of them in person via conventions and work shops. So I don't have to live in a particular state to know what can be grown there. Raleigh is the same USDA zone I am in which tells me right away what will work and will not. Sure the cool season grasses work there and are favored, but that is only because of the milder Summers and shade issue with all the trees." You making a fool of yourself once again. You said, "sure the cool season grasses work ther and are favored, but that is only because of the milder summer and shade issue with all the trees." Of course, what else. It's part of the climate here in NC. This is a very lush state where flora grows very well. It's one of the characteristics that defines NC's weather, therefore it must be taken to account. It's like saying, sure the warm season grasses work there and are favorate, but that is only because hot summers and no shade issues with NO trees. Dah, of course!!. It's no fluke that warm season grasses dominate the landscape in the deep south... "You are not fooling me or anyone else, so can it youngster." I think you better chose your words more wisely and read your posts before posting them so you don't end up looking like a fool once again and now a lier!!! Well done. Auteck

Bermuda seeds are very small. It's easy to sow them too thickly. I've always blended them with corn meal (4 or 5 parts corn meal to one part seed)to make spreading easier. The yellow color also helps to see where you've been. You don't need to do much more than scratch the ground before planting. I have a slit aerator which is a lousy aerator but it does a great job of making small trenches for the seeds to wash into.

It is unfortunate that misinformation continues to be repeated about glyphosate. Denmark has not banned glyphosate, nor have "many European countries". Denmark at one point thought that some of the monitoring they were doing showed that glyphosate could move into agricultural field drainage water in autumn but once they looked at their data and related it to the methodology they used, they enacted no ban whatsoever. As the Danish Environmental Protection Agency specifically stated: http://www.egeis.org/home/main/Evaluation-GlyphosateDEPA.PDF "Against this background, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency believes that no unacceptable risk of pollution of the groundwater is associated with the currently approved agricultural use of glyphosate. The Agency thus does not consider that the updated state of our knowledge provides any technical grounds for the imposition of restrictions on the autumn application of glyphosate." Used properly, glyphosate will not pollute drinking water nor will it have adverse effects on humans. Once applied, it binds tightly to soil particles and is not herbicidally active. If it is applied to hard surfaces such as sidewalks it can move offsite of course. It can also move if there is active soil erosion carrying soil off site. It is of very low toxicity, and breaks down completely into natural constituents over time. It is of equal or lower toxicity than most household products such as detergent, soaps, shampoos, cleaners etc. and far less toxic than some of the "alternatives" often discussed such as bleach, kerosene, high strength vinegars and so on. There is so much misinformation being repeated on the web that it is difficult to get reliable information. This link provides an published overview of the available literature. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 117-165 Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1401479