Bermuda Seed for Oklahoma

10 years ago

I am looking for the a cheap Bermuda seed to put down on an acre of land. I bought 2.5 acres last year and the builder sodded right around the house and the drainage ditch. He then seeded the rest of the yard (no idea what variety). That was around July of last year. The seed sprouted and the yard was growing well but the plants were still young when the grass went dormant. This year I have huge patches of dead grass with no new berumda grass coming up. Most of the sod has come back, but the seeded areas are hit or (mostly) miss. I have read that young berumda grass can sometimes die in the first winter if it hasn't established well enough. I am going to reseed the entire acre around the house and have been researching the variety. I wanted to use Yukon, but it is 300 dollars per 25 lbs, and I would probally need almost 1k worth in seed. Is there something cheaper that would work good? It does not have to be golf grade turf, It just needs to be a usable lawn which is low maintenance. Something to keep the kids from becoming muddy messes after every rain.

I live west of Oklahoma City near El Reno, OK.

Thanks

William

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dchall_san_antonio
10 years ago
OMG! Bermuda is one of the highest maintenance lawns there is. I suppose you can just let it go without much maintenance, but you should not expect it to look much better than a city park. When I say it is high maintenance, if you want it to be dense enough to fight off weeds, and green all the time, then you would be watering it once per week, mowing it twice per week, and fertilizing it once per month. To me that's a lot of maintenance. If you just water and mow once per week, and fertilize twice per year, it will be a little thin and yellowish most of the time, but it will keep the dust and mud down.

The good news is your bermuda is probably just slow coming in. That's because it wasn't well established before dormancy, but it will come back. Furthermore, the sod your builder used around the house is a hybrid type of bermuda which is completely different from the seeded variety he used away from the house. If you mix seed in with the sod, you will have a permanent weedy look to the sod. As it is, the seeded variety will invade the sod slowly anyway giving you a weedy look eventually. I know, I'm full of good news '-)

The other good news is you wrote in here in April. You have at least 6 more weeks of winter as far as bermuda is concerned. Bermuda seed needs hot soil before it will sprout. If you seed now, nothing will happen and you'll be very disappointed. If you seed in June, it will sprout nicely. But by June the bermuda will be all the way in and you'll look back and wonder why you ever thought about reseeding. Yukon is definitely not golf grade grass. Golf courses work to keep those seeded varieties of bermuda out of their greens.

If you still need seed in June, then write back.
wlburgess
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks for the information, would the U-3 seed look like the hybrid, they sell that type of seed around here. I am guessing the builder seeded with the cheapest seed he could buy.

Also, my back porch only gets sun until noon, Should I seed that with some tall fescue? Or is that enough sun for bermuda?

Thanks for all the information!
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