Brown Bermuda

ndcoach29 – posted 06 July 2006 10:06

Hi, My whole neighborhood has brown lawn this year and I am assuming it is due to lack of rain. It was looking good until the company that has always done our fertilization did an application and it just went downhill. The guy that cuts the grass said that was the problem. We have an irrigation system and hadn’t turned it on because we needed some repairs but the grass looks like december grass. Will watering it a lot make it better? I don’t want to water it thinking it will help if it doesn’t.

Grassguy – posted 16 July 2006 19:52

fertilizing a drought stressed lawn and then not watering it in just makes matters worse.The only way to know if irrigation will help would be to irrigate it. Turf grass is a living organisim and does require water to survive. An inch a week is good if you do it at 4 or 5 am.this allows the moisture to infiltrate and percolate thru the soil as much as it can(depending on soil type) before transpiration kicks into overdrive when the sun comes up. You want that moisture in the root zone, 4 to 6 inchs, this is achieved with proper irrigation practices.

ndcoach29 – posted 17 July 2006 06:43

Thanks a lot. I have been watering it and there has been a drastic greening in spots, like the outline of where all the spriklers hit. it has only been a couple of weeks,but i think i will water earlier right now i have it starting at 8a which much be too late. thanks again for the advice.

DThigpen – posted 07 August 2006 07:21

We laid @ 2000sf of Bermuda sod this past Friday on a baseball infield. We have been watering all weekend. Now this morning when I went to the park, most of the sod has turned brown. What do I need to do?

tommy – posted 08 August 2006 13:04

Lift up some pieces of sod and observe whats going on. You may not be watering enough to get good penetration…….or, you may be watering too much and rotting out the turf.

ndcoach29 – posted 08 August 2006 14:38

Hi, I read a few other posts when i first located this board and saw that watering was key, so i had my system scheduled to water three times a day and have had a complete turnaround. i have been able to make it just twice now and that daily except for saturday because that is when the lawn care professional comes. it is unusually dry this year and we had not had rain in what seemed to be a month or two.

all that said, i don’t think you can water too much when it is this hot. i felt that i would be watering it too much until i read over and over that with this type of grass you really need good saturation.

im no pro, but just giving my testimony. hth

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