Control/Kill Bermuda Grass in Fescue Lawn

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VolNRaleighNC said:
Entire lawn was sodded with Fescue when we built in 2014-2015 but patches started creeping within that 1st year. It's still 85-90% Fescue with patches of Bermuda here and there. Problem is person on one side of me has straight weeds in the front yard and 100% Bermuda in the back. The person on the other side of me has about 50/50 Fescue/Bermuda. It's on both sides of me so I can try to get rid of what is currently in my yard but my next battle is going to be what's creeping on either side of me.

I guess I should take the advice from earlier and just move...😂
#Fightingalosingbattle
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Who cuts your grass?
 
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#27
Winter is coming so the won't the burmuda die off. Spray with a preemergent in the fall and right before things start growing in the spring.
I realized lawns are a full time job. Once I had my daughter I quit that job. At the end of the day if you water and cut, once a week in the summer, your lawn will look nice, even with a few weeds.
 
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ruger1234 said:
Priorities in the the right place. A green lawn is a happy lawn.
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I fully appreciate a beautiful, uniform lawn. I just don't have the willingness to invest the time and money right now to get there. It's an uphill battle, and even moreso when your neighbors aren't on the same page.

We keep the grass green, mowed nicely, and relatively weed free, the beds weeded, shrubs trimmed, and rotate some seasonal flowers. I can't fret about a few other local grass species intermingling. Plus, the Bermuda *seems* more tolerant of my Boxer-Pit's personal irrigation.
 
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I know it's a different question, but any ideas on killing off grass that has invaded a knockout rose bush or two? I can pull it out around it, but there are long strands growing up through the middle of it.
 
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Coug said:
Yeah, I think on the bottle it says a full treatment requires multiple applications.
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You are correct. I think it says something like a max of 7 applications in a 12 month period. I guess I wanted to see if there was something more powerful to knock out the Bermuda while still allowing the Fescue to survive. Not that the Bayer product was harmful on my Fescue.
 
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Obsessed said:
Oh no.

What did you do?
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The people I bought the house from hadn't none anything to the yard in 20+ years. I tried to till in a little sand and compost, but the soil is so hard pan that even a heavy duty tiller couldn't go hit a couple inches deep. So now I have too much sand and compost, and also the thatch was so think that everything is very lumpy.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I know it's a different question, but any ideas on killing off grass that has invaded a knockout rose bush or two? I can pull it out around it, but there are long strands growing up through the middle of it.
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Over the top. It's a chemical used for this type of problem.
It's a high yield product. 8-10 bucks for a quart.
 
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golfballs said:
The people I bought the house from hadn't none anything to the yard in 20+ years. I tried to till in a little sand and compost, but the soil is so hard pan that even a heavy duty tiller couldn't go hit a couple inches deep. So now I have too much sand and compost, and also the thatch was so think that everything is very lumpy.
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Damn.

I mah have tried some chemicals first, but sounds like you need some fine grading and sod.
 
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Me. I typically bag my grass as well.

Do I need to change something up?
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Just wondering because me and my neighbor have fescue and he kept getting Bermuda and we figured out it was because the guys mowing his grass were bringing it in on there equipment. If you cut your own it should be okay. The Bermuda is probably coming from one of your neighbors.
 
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golfballs said:
The people I bought the house from hadn't none anything to the yard in 20+ years. I tried to till in a little sand and compost, but the soil is so hard pan that even a heavy duty tiller couldn't go hit a couple inches deep. So now I have too much sand and compost, and also the thatch was so think that everything is very lumpy.
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I recall the soil in K-town had a high clay content... my yard did not till well, had to go to a plugger type machine to get deeper into the ground, and then was able to amend the soil... but with limited success.

My garden was tough as well, and wore out a tiller... so I fixed the soil by getting a couple truck loads of mushroom compost from the factory in Loudon. That was like gold, it tilled the soil into a fine structure and gave me the best of class veggies in my neighborhood. So, every 2 years I would just add more of that black gold compost to keep the soil right. Have to say the smell will get to you until it is worked into the soil... the key to this is the compost has a lot of peat moss mixed in with the horse stable manure. You even get a few horse shoes when you get a load.
 
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I keep a pretty stable fescue / bermuda mix in the front yard by over-seeding in the fall, which keeps it green year round. The front is the only thing that can be seen from the street.

In the back yard I'm content with more bermuda since it repairs itself and I like to hit the golf ball around constantly during the warmer months. I'd have divots everywhere if it was fescue. In the winter I don't really care if the back turns dormant / brown. Nobody can see it but me and my next door neighbors.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I know it's a different question, but any ideas on killing off grass that has invaded a knockout rose bush or two? I can pull it out around it, but there are long strands growing up through the middle of it.
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That's Bermuda grass.
 
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Roustabout said:
It's called zoysia you dumb ****s.
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What does that mean? You prefer zoysia over fescue or bermuda? You think people have mis-identified their grass as fescue or bermuda when it's actually zoysia? Or somebody challenged you to put zoysia and ****s in a sentence together?
 
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larjoranj said:
What does that mean? You prefer zoysia over fescue or bermuda? You think people have mis-identified their grass as fescue or bermuda when it's actually zoysia? Or somebody challenged you to put zoysia and ****s in a sentence together?
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There is no other grass. Fescue is for rich ****s who want to continually water, overseed and pay lawn services. Bermuda is for golf courses and people that want to mow three times a week.

Zoysia is it. Plug it, and be done.
 
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Roustabout said:
There is no other grass. Fescue is for rich ****s who want to continually water, overseed and pay lawn services. Bermuda is for golf courses and people that want to mow three times a week.

Zoysia is it. Plug it, and be done.
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I can't argue with that.
 
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Roustabout said:
There is no other grass. Fescue is for rich ****s who want to continually water, overseed and pay lawn services. Bermuda is for golf courses and people that want to mow three times a week.

Zoysia is it. Plug it, and be done.
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Sounds like wonder grass. Could you post some pics of your yard?
 
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larjoranj said:
Sounds like wonder grass. Could you post some pics of your yard?
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Lol.

Zoysia is an extraordinarily invasive species of grass. You'd better really like it before you put ANY in your yard because you aren't getting rid of it without some extraordinary effort.
 
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Coug said:
Lol.

Zoysia is an extraordinarily invasive species of grass. You'd better really like it before you put ANY in your yard because you aren't getting rid of it without some extraordinary effort.
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There's nothing wrong with zoysia. It requires less maintenance but is more expensive to purchase.
 
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