Palisades and Bermunda

dehrle – posted 25 August 2007 11:50

I live in Houston and have Palisades front and back. In the front yard the Palisades has grown thick and the Bermuda in the vacant lot next to our can not make any headway and is very easily removed. The backyard is a different story. Bermuda has sprung up in spots and spread. The Palisades did not do well this spring in the back yard with the almost 60 days of hard rain (only a couple of days without) and thinned. The backyard Palisades is getting thicker again, but I just remove a square foot of Bermuda (hard to tell apart from the Palisades) – I am concerned. Any suggestions?

dehrle – posted 29 August 2007 09:15

Actually, there seems to be a simple solution – get the Palisades to cover. I have a strip beside an open field with Bermuda and I put down a herbicide that was suppose to kill grass and not allow growth for 4 months. Well it killed the Bermuda. But the Bermuda grass now has runners into the area and so does the Palisades (actually it is going to town in that area). Palisades is over running the Bermuda in that area.

However, elsewhere in the yard the Palisades may be thick but it is due to a large density of stocks of grass (needles) reaching upward (and downward). Once an area is damaged/killed it does not seem to recover (no growth into the area by the zoysia). This can be a very small area that gets ground down when the soil is wet, or a weak area that the dogs urinate on.

HELP!