Thanks for all of the replies. Q: In three years your lawn will be so bumpy you can't mow the grass without scalping it. The perfect start would not have included rototilling. Just out of curiosity, who told you to rototill? Re tilling, after raking up all of the dead weeds from the glyphosphate, my local landscaper told me I needed to till up the ground before spreading the centipede seeds, then roll it flat afterwards to get good contact. The lawn is already flattened out, so I'm not worried about scalping. I was watering a little every other day, so I will back off and water more heavily, and less frequently. Thanks for the tip on letting the weeds dry out. Q: Why did you pick Centipede? Is your soil acidic? Every other yard in the subdivision (50+ homes) has centipede so I didn't want to be the one yard that sticks out over the winter, when everyone else has a brown yard. I sent my soil off to UGA and it came back with a PH of 5.6. I guess I'm going to keep mowing everything frequently, weeds and all until May, at which point I will attack the weeds first with some herbicides. I kind of expected a few seasons until the centipede matured, so no surprise there. I will think about reseeding a little in July, but centipede seed is so damn expensive that I wish I would have just sodded and not have to deal with all of this hassle (since I'm not saving much anyways). Thanks again for the comments all. I'm a long time lurker that gets a lot of advice from searching the posts in this forum, as I hope this one helps someone else in the future.

It has been over 90 degrees for most of the day lately here, so unless we get a cold snap, it is probably too hot to apply herbicide for the Spring. It has not been spring since April. Welcome to Texas. What happens if I apply it when it is over the recommended temp? Is it just less effective, or a total loss? If its just weaker, it might make sense to try it...at least its less likely to do harm. If you apply when it is too hot, the grass dies. Also, I hadn't thought about keeping it short so the weeds are at a disadvantage. That totally makes sense. I don't know if I can mow two or three times per week, but I can at least try to keep it up as long as I can. With the starter fertilizer, it about needs mowing that often anyway. This could be your biggest problem. 2x to 3x per week is normal for a good looking bermuda lawn. If you mow less often it will be shaggy with seed heads before the week is up. Or, I might have the mower set too high. I've got it at 3", and I've been bagging the clippings because I don't want to be spreading weed seeds. Is that correct? You did not find the Bermuda Bible and memorize it, did you!? As you lower the mowing height you will find the lawn getting a scalped, stemmy look. That is normal. In fact when you get down to your mower's lowest setting, you might want to rent a mower that goes down even lower and get it down to 3/4 inch for at least one mowing/scalping. If you could take this to the limit and mow at about 1/4 inch, you would find the bermuda stems start to grow horizontally and you get a bunch of blades growing off the stem. That is nirvana for bermuda. You need a reel mower for that and you need to mow 2x to 3x per week. Also no need to bag clippings. The way this thread is going it doesn't sound like you have the huevos to really do the right thing with bermuda. It is a demanding grass to grow if you wan it to look nice. It needs deep weekly waterings, 2x weekly mowing and monthly feeding with a high nitrogen fertilizer. No other turf grass needs that much work. It looks good on the golf course and other sports venues but they can pay their employees to keep it up. If you want to deviate from that script, you can have an okay lawn but you will have poor color, poor density (and associated weeds), and a shaggy look. Can you post pictures of your weeds? I'm thinking your clover is not clover but oxalis or black medic. I'm thinking your crabgrass is St Augustine. And there are a couple possibilities for the weed with the little yellow flower but most popular is horse herb.

Redsox, When I moved here 7 years ago, my "lawn" was mostly weeds. The previous owner did not like to do yard work. He was happy when it didn't rain for long periods as it meant he didn't have to mow. I take pride in my lawn so I overseeded with a good grass seed and watered during dry periods. With all the dormant weed seeds in the soil my lawn never really looked good. I finally gave in and had a local lawn care outfit take on the fertilizing/herbicide responsibility. It began to look better after just one season. Now, two years latter, it's relatively weed free and was the first one in the neighborhood to green up this year. The lawn care people were here in mid March to apply pre emergence crabgrass killer and fertilizer. Once again, I'm proud of my lawn. I cut it high and often to promote healthy grass. When I see an occassional weed, I pull it. It's watered regularly. The lawn care outfit is not part of any national company. He's a local guy who takes a personal interest in his customer's lawns. He takes great care when applying anything to avoid my roses. If there is the slightest breeze he returns on a calm day. His prices are half of TruGreen and ChemLawn.

Esh, You make such good points! After reading your post, I wondered over to a conservation area which is in back of our woods---filled with the horrible weed!!! So even though we do not let the part in our yard go to seed, we still will get seeds. The group who owns the conservation lands has a "do not touch" policy, so I would not legally be able to pull up or weed wack the stilt grass there. Their phiosophy is that nature ultimately does the right thing. What do you think about this kind of policy? In my opinion, nature always does the right thing when we stay out of its way...However my town kills the natural preditors of the deer...So, in intervening to protect the deer, we are putting at risk all of the little creatures who depend on the native plants which the deer eat. We still have tons of frogs, but we are seeing fewer of the birds who depended on the native plants. For example, if you look at the bloom time of the Cardinal Flowers and the migration of the hummingbirds, you will be in awe of how it all fits together. However, since the deer have been eating the Cardinal Flowers, what are the hummers to do? I am upset at the moment because I put in some replacement Cardinal Flowers for the hummers the deer ate---and last night the deer ate the replacements. Do you think that in favoring one species over all others (deer), we may be throwing our whole enviornment out of wack?