I just need some landscaper’s opinion on my Bermuda lawn. We live in newly built subdivisions and my neighbor has a beautiful yard. Her Bermuda thrived so well and she didn’t do absolutely anything to it. It has that beautiful turf life green. My yard isn’t the worst but the grass is thriving as well in only certain areas. I see the turf like green only in certain areas of my lawn. I’ve tried aerating the lawn and spreading around compost all over (3 weeks ago) fertilized and also I only cut it once every 3 weeks because it grows very slow (I never cut it lower than 1.5 inches). We all have clay soil so I’m just asking for advice. Anyone had this problem before? I’ve researched constantly but cannot find anyone who has the same problem. I live in South Carolina, here are pictures of my lawn!
by Just-Armadillo-6811
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We just bought this house with a bermuda lawn and that looks exactly like my front yard.
It is growing, because I have some dead spots that are filling in, but very slowly. When I mow it, it’s barely taking anything off because it doesn’t seem like it’s growing upwards like it should. There are a lot of dead stalks that seem like they are left over dormant bits. I mowed it as low as I could a few months ago to try and get rid of that. Everything says they’ll just get covered over with green, but at this rate it will take months.
There is a patch in my backyard that is bright green and grows upwards and outwards which I have not treated any differently.
How many inches/wk are you putting down in water? You need between 1-1.5″ of water per week. Also, its still pretty early in the year, in SC it could still be waking up a bit from dormancy depending on soil temps.
Was your neighbor’s Bermuda put down before yours? Its also possible that it came from different growers and hers just started out healthier. Its also possible she has better soil for some reason or the sod was laid better….many possible reasons.
Be careful with compost, depending on the type it could send your Phosphorous levels too high and take years to come back down.
It’s because you aren’t mowing often enough.
Bermuda has green leaves but brown stems. If you let it go to long between mowing, you’ll cut the leaves off and reveal more stem.
The best way to avoid this is to mow often enough so that you never have to remove more than 1/3 of the length at a time. So if you maintain at 1.5″, you need to mow before the grass reaches 2.25″.
But you’ll need to do a HOC reset to get past all the existing brown stems. That means scalping it before letting it grow back to a new lower maintenance height.
Yeah. You need to cut 1xweek.
https://thebermudabible.com/
I started spraying DEF this year and it has greened like crazy. Google uric acid on lawn.
Water