This occurred a few months ago, and I am still dealing with this annoying problem. MSMA seems to work, but the crabgrass is everywhere, probably being spreaded by my mower!!! It's so frustrating!! I just put a pre-emergent down, so hopefully I won't have to deal with this annoying problem after the last growth of plants die off.

The Sahara seeds were broadcast as overseed for a yard that was covered with beautiful dark-green bermudagrass. I just wanted thicker, greener grass. I don't want to openly blame the seed company because I didn't put down a pre-emergent for crabgrass in Feb/Mar, but if you and I are speaking of the same distributor...I'll be more cautious before purchasing anymore of their products!

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Originally posted by ted:
2 of the many reasons we don't seed warm weather grasses....post some pics.

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Originally posted by duanetjt:
I had that same problem after purchasing a 15lb bag of Sahara bermudagrass seeds (at a very popular home center) and broadcasting it over my year old Mohawk bermudagrass lawn. Sometime later, I noticed some very tightly growing light-green grass that seemed to be everywhere I broadcasted the seed. Imagine my surprize when a neighbor identified the grass growing in my yard as CRABGRASS!!! Pictures I pulled from the Internet confirmed his suspicion.

This occurred a few months ago, and I am still dealing with this annoying problem. MSMA seems to work, but the crabgrass is everywhere, probably being spreaded by my mower!!! It's so frustrating!! I just put a pre-emergent down, so hopefully I won't have to deal with this annoying problem after the last growth of plants die off.

The Sahara seeds were broadcast as overseed for a yard that was covered with beautiful dark-green bermudagrass. I just wanted thicker, greener grass. I don't want to openly blame the seed company because I didn't put down a pre-emergent for crabgrass in Feb/Mar, but if you and I are speaking of the same distributor...I'll be more cautious before purchasing anymore of their products!

All that to say, try MSMA. It's cheap, and it works well for getting rid of crabgrass which somehow is out competing my bermudagrass.

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Duane - Sorry to hear you are going through the same thing. It sounds like both you and I used the same seed (starts with a P). I have a neighbor who has sodded Centipede, my lawn looks exactly like his. I am going to try and post some pictures in the next couple of days.

I'm happy to hear that your exprience was not mine. Maybe we received bad batchs of seeds?

I'm a STRICT do-it-yourselfer and up until this incident was extremely proud of the work I did to rennovate my 3/4 acre lot. That's right, I killed the existing vegitation, took PH samples, rototilled and added amendments until the soil was prime for planting bermudagrass. My yard looked great until this happened! I can't tell you how many offers I received from my neighbors for me to do the same with their lots. Now, my wife and I joke about how the yard looks like the skin of a green leopard! (MSMA discolored the bermudagrass, but this effect is temporary.) Anyway I didn't want to seem as if I'm bashing the "P" company, but I put a lot of work into my yard last year only to watch helpless as this...this weed quickly overtook everything I worked so hard to cultivate! (It's same pit in my stomach feeling I get when I check to see how my 401k is doing.)

Seriously, I'll just let the existing rhizomes and stolons do their thing,... and NO MORE OVERSEEDING for me!

I overseeded my lawn with sahara bermuda a month or two ago because it was cheap and because the weeds were begining to take over. Now, I can clearly see where the Sahara is growing & it sticks straight up rather than the wiry, spread out look that the common bermuda has here. It looks more like Seashore Paspalum than common bermuda at this stage.