I don't know what you mean about growing a tree.

I've been mowing at the highest setting since before summer.

I don't usually water my lawn even once a week, just when it hasn't rained for a while and the heat is extreme.

I live in North Carolina, near Charlotte.

My neighbor's son killed her lawn with Roundup last fall. It looked like a desert for a while. But when Spring arrived, she had the best lawn in the neighborhood. The Bermuda grass, and Creeping Charlie didn't come back. I believe he used Kentucky 31.. We are in Greensboro NC.

"The bermuda grass will die and turn yellow when cooler weather hits here in NC, but will return next summer. "

Actually the bermuda just goes dormant through the winter. Come spring, it breaks out of it's domancy and spreads even further. Getting rid of the stuff is nearly impossible without killing everything and unfortunately it's just about too late to start that process now.

wvu,

The reason for the tree is Bermuda hates shade. It will really stop it in it's tracks if you provide shade over the heaviest infiltrated areas. Then you can over seed with a shade tolerant grass seed, even further inhibiting the bermuda grass.

That is about all you can really do, short of digging out every inch of dirt from the lawn with a back hoe and replacing it with fresh soil. Even then, the Bermuda may come back. It is hard to kill, but you can try to stop it from getting worse.

Go pick out a nice shade tree for your back yard, and plant it away from the house, but where the most bermuda grass is. Then over seed this fall with a good shade tolerant grass seed for your area.

Once you have Bermuda, you will always have Bermuda. LOL

Yes, Bermuda hates shade, but even if you plant that tree, the Bermuda grass just heads on out towards the sun. "SurPRIZE!" It says.

I have it here. Every now and then I launch a new attack. Every then and now I come back to my senses. Only to launch another, some months or years later.

I do believe that newspaper and/or cardboard, covered with mulch to keep it in place, will work over time. But you have to cover the whole lot. The WHOLE lot. I have covered some, and did this over Winter, so the Burmuda grass thanked me for buffering it from the frost. What was I thinking? Cold doesn't kill it, it just goes turns beige and goes dormant. Heat doesn't kill it. Nor drought. Digging it up and leaving it in the sun for an aeon won't kill it. I hear that composting it kills it, but I would need to see that to really, truly believe it. If you were to grow six foot shrubs over your entire block, that would probably kill it. And live among a short forest.

That might be my next plan.