blueridge – posted 30 July 2003 08:22
Is there anything available to the homeownerover the counter for Bermudagrass suppression?Acclaim is about $300 a gallon here. I formerly held a turfgrass and ornamentalapllicator license, but now I’m in another field and cannot buy the restricted products.
ThanksRandy
Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 31 July 2003 10:53
If you are trying to grow anything but bentgrass or centipede, then you can set your mower to the highest setting and shade out most of the bermuda. Bermuda needs so much sun that it almost shades itself out when it grows tall (afraid of its own shadow!). Add in a serious tall grass and the shade gets intolerable for the bermuda. It won’t disappear this season, but it will be tolerable and will eventually leave by itself (or you can start to pull it out when it gets real thin).
blueridge – posted 31 July 2003 17:31
Thanks
I agree with you on the mower height, it does help in several ways. Even with a minimu height after mowing of about 4-5″ the what we in VA call wiregrass still comes on pretty strong especially when we get plenty of rain during the fescue summer dormancy.
Pulling it does help along borders, and when we get our nice cool season of about 6-10 weeks in the fall, the fescue comes back and the wiregrass can’t tolerate the cool conditions.