Simple follow the Bermuda Bible.

It will take hard work mowing twice a week, keep it watered, and fertilize once every 30 days.

Get religious and honest on it, and the enemy crabgrass will not stand a chance. No compromises.

Thanks, TW. Are you saying not to bother trying to re-seed the bare areas and let the bermuda do it's thing? Will these areas fill-in over the summer?

Appreciate all your input! Will be following your guidance in the Bermuda Bible this year.

Get you some pr-emergence like Barricade or Dimension down for this season, then do proper maintenance this year on the Bermuda. The Bermuda should recover and get really thick and healthy.

What height are you maintaining at? If you maintain the Bermuda too high it thins and allows weeds to invade. Keep it short, watered, and fed and it will form a dense carpet. Once you have really healthy Bermuda, weeds do not stand much of a chance. For weeds to cycle, they must reach maturity to develop seed heads. Keeping the Bermuda short, and you keep chopping the weeds heads off. That weakens them and prevent them from maturing. They eventually die off and that is the last you will see of them.

If you pound the lawn with Nitrogen all summer long - it will spread and fill in all the crabgrass spots...

As TW says - be prepared to mow.... a lot...

Also - be prepared to be chopping Bermuda out of the lake, your dock, and off your house when it hits it's growth.... ;)

Thanks

Jeeze, John! You make it sound like kudzu. Oh wait. Nevermind.