What time of year should I seed my bermuda grass lawn? I live in Georgia.?

Answer 1

Spring, after any possibility of a final freeze/thaw. I live in central FL and Bermuda while popular is a high maintenace, delicate grass. Certainly it's rooted differently than St. Augustine, but not so hardy as other grasses that root more deeply, and aren't as "fine" in the blades. It is a fickle but beautiful grass when it's working.

Steven Wolf

Answer 2

Bermuda loves Georgia and is easy to grow in her clay soils. Select an improved Bermudagrass seed like Sahara or Cimmaron to provide a more fine-textured lawn-like appearance. Common Bermudagrass is much cheaper, but it will not fill in as tightly-knit as you would probably like. In Georgia most of the Bermudagrass lawns are grown from sod, and are very fine-textured. You can also "plug" a Bermudagrass lawn to get that same look. That means cutting sod into 2"x2" squares and planting them in a triangular (offset or diagonal) pattern in the desired lawn area. Well-fertilized plugged lawns can fill in nicely in as little as one growing season. Bermuda is very aggressive in Georgia.
As to the very best time for seeding, plugging, or sodding: May into June.