My lawn is full of Bermuda grass. HELP! Do I have to kill the whole lawn?
2006-08-23 09:40:29 · 4 answers · asked by linda c 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Bermuda propagates itself with stolons underground. Unless you can afford to remove the top 8" of soil from your yard, replace the soil and re-sod you are gonna eventually have a Bermuda grass lawn. If you leave so much as just one stolon under the walk or driveway, the Bermuda will return. If your neighbors have any Bermuda, it is hopeless.
Bermuda actually makes a good lawn carpet. On the down side the stuff itches like crazy when you get it on you, but for some reason chiggers don't like it and won't live in it. here in Arizona it is the summer lawn of choice, come fall we simply cut it as low as our mowers will allow and over-seed with a cool weather annual grass. When the Bermuda returns from dormancy in the spring it will again green up and take back over the yard.
2006-08-23 09:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by h2odog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move. Bermuda grass is nearly impossible to get rid of, and spreads easily. Round-up will kill some of it, but as mentioned, if there is a little life left in the roots, they will return. I have a nice bermuda-covered flowerbed to prove it. It has almost totally covered the state of Oklahoma, and the transportation department continues to plant it, spreading the plague.
Damn whoever brought it from Bermuda!
2006-08-23 17:06:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
kill the grass when it comes up again kill it a second time. if it comes up again kill it for the third and plant new. if you have irrigation water, it's hopeless... the seeds are in the water.
2006-08-23 16:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the only way and yu will still most likely have some come back
2006-08-23 16:44:24 · answer #4 · answered by aussie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋