You will need to start trying to kill the bermuda now. Waiting until the fall to try and kill it will be a huge problem
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Did you see my answers? I would appreciate your advice. You seem knowledgeable. Thanks.
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For the first couple of mows this spring, I would lower your mower a notch or 2. After that, I'd keep mowing at the absolute highest setting until fall. This should help keep the soil moist longer as the temps rise.
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Why is that? Wouldn't it be better to kill it off while dormant as opposed to when it's at its peak?
Ok I'm seeing now multiple articles talking about how much of a bitch it is to remove Bermuda grass. Any recommendations for what I can do to kill off the bermuda but somehow still maintain the fescue so I can possibly save a little bit on seed & soil?
You will have two problems if you wait to long to kill off the bermuda. One is timing.
Bermuda is a beautiful grass and makes great turf grass but it is basically a weed because of its aggressive nature. What makes it so aggressive is that it spreads through runners above the ground and ones below the ground. So eradicating it in a lawn typically takes several treatments. Now about "time" I mentioned earlier.
To plant fescue you must start either mid July or no later than the first day after labor day. Here is why. Fescue needs soil temperatures around 65 to 75 degrees to germinate quickly. It takes about 7 to 15 days to germinate. Once the grass is established it needs another 3 weeks to develop a good rooting system to survive the winter. So if you started on labor day by mid September you should have grass sprouting. Which would give you about 3 or for weeks for the grass to develop a root system.
If you wait to late to plant, depending on when the first winter frost, your grass may not be mature enough to handle the cold weather and die. Also waiting to late will cause slow seed germination which is not a good thing.
Let's say you wait until the fall to kill the bermuda, you would have to wait at least two weeks but 3 weeks to be on the safe side to seed any new grass and that would probably put you to close to that first winter seed of lower temperatures that would cause slow germination
The guy has a wonderful youtube channel The lawn care nut. He moved to Florida this past December so he has warm season grass now. But he has tons of videos when he had cools season grasses which was Fescue. I learned so much from him. Check out his older fescue videos and he will have your fescue looking right. Watch his maintenance videos also.
He also got vids showing him seeding a fescue yard from scratch and what to do
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Thank you very much. I'm seeing how up & down the weather can be here in NC. All 4 seasons but nothing too extreme for any of them
The lawn care nut should get you right
Starting to reconsider going with fescue grass. I was coming back from taking my dog out to use the bathroom and I noticed that she deposited some shit in the fescue area of the grass at some time when my girl was watching her. If I wasn't paying attention, either I or someone else would've easily stepped on a dog shit landmine. It was so well hidden due to the grass height and even more of a pain in the ass to scoop because of that grass height as well. The area where I usually take my dog to shit is all bermuda and it's much easier to tell where she's been shitting on that lower grass as well. Time to research how to difficult it is to get rid of fescue and start prepping to seed some bermuda. I'd rather deal with dormant grass during the fall & winter here in NC than worry about stepping in dog shit landmines all year round.
Dammit I can't win. Just read that tall fescue might be one of the best types of grass to have since I have a dog as it can resist the toxicity of dog urine much better that other grass types.
Any one got any good tips on Mulch? How not to go that "dog vomit" after it rains?
Gas!
Snapper lawn mowers all day long.
I recently had to retire my last one after 30 years of service.
Btw, if you want make your small engine equipment last longer, stop using gas with ethanol. It eats up seals and the aluminum the engine is made out of.
Non-ethanol gas is sometimes called 'recreational fuel'.
Snapper lawn mowers all day long.
I recently had to retire my last one after 30 years of service.
Btw, if you want make your small engine equipment last longer, stop using gas with ethanol. It eats up seals and the aluminum the engine is made out of.
Non-ethanol gas is sometimes called 'recreational fuel'.
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This is the cheapest site online that has them
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