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Bermuda Grass seeding crabshell 04-20-2007
Posted by crabshell on April 20, 2007, 9:02 pm
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 An area of my St Augustine lawn cooked last summer and died. I raked the
dead grass up and planted Bermuda seed. How long does it take to show
evidence of growth? It's been a week and nothing much has happened. Yes,
between rain and watering the soil has been kept moist.

Thanks for any advice,
crabshell

Posted by Dave on April 21, 2007, 1:40 am
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> An area of my St Augustine lawn cooked last summer and died. I raked the
> dead grass up and planted Bermuda seed. How long does it take to show
> evidence of growth? It's been a week and nothing much has happened. Yes,
> between rain and watering the soil has been kept moist.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> crabshell

Lucky day for you. I've been working on getting Bermuda (Sahara version)
grass from seed since middle of March. Here's what I've seen:
Ten days or so, have to look along the bare soil almost a ground level to
see some "needles" popping from the soil. Overhead, will see nothing.
Obvious sprouts around 3 weeks. Not all seed will sprout at the same time.
Some slower than others. My take of what's going on is there must be a "dry
spell" of a few days for germination to occur. Then, feast and famine water
afterwards. Don't keep it drowned. Promotes root growth letting up on the
water a day or two. Water the grass in the evening around the time the sun
goes down.

How do you rake up St. Augustine? Hopefully you meant a bow rake.

My St. Augustine was miserable last year. Thought all was dead. Its
finally making a comeback last week or so.

Bermuda grass here is on virgin soil I brought in. Front yard was primarily
rock and caliche. 6" of soil seems to have done wonders.
--
Dave

Apathy and denial are close cousins



Posted by Bud on April 21, 2007, 7:50 am
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> Lucky day for you. I've been working on getting Bermuda (Sahara version)
> grass from seed since middle of March. Here's what I've seen:
> Ten days or so, have to look along the bare soil almost a ground level to
> see some "needles" popping from the soil. Overhead, will see nothing.
> Obvious sprouts around 3 weeks. Not all seed will sprout at the same
> time. Some slower than others. My take of what's going on is there must
> be a "dry spell" of a few days for germination to occur. Then, feast and
> famine water afterwards. Don't keep it drowned. Promotes root growth
> letting up on the water a day or two. Water the grass in the evening
> around the time the sun goes down.

bad idea, promotes fungus and algea and mold etc. water in the morning.
you want your grass dry at nite so thatbad stuff won't grow. keep it wet by
watering lightly 2 -3 times a day till it sprouts then 1 inch a week.




Posted by Eggs Zachtly on April 21, 2007, 2:36 pm
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Bud said:


[...]

>> Water the grass in the evening around the time the sun goes down.
>
> bad idea, promotes fungus and algea and mold etc. water in the morning.
> you want your grass dry at nite so thatbad stuff won't grow. keep it wet by
> watering lightly 2 -3 times a day till it sprouts then 1 inch a week.

Yup. Good catch. The "water in the evening" was awful advice.

--

Eggs

Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?

Posted by Bud on April 21, 2007, 2:15 pm
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>>> Water the grass in the evening around the time the sun goes down.
>>
>> bad idea, promotes fungus and algea and mold etc. water in the morning.
>> you want your grass dry at nite so thatbad stuff won't grow. keep it wet
>> by
>> watering lightly 2 -3 times a day till it sprouts then 1 inch a week.
>
> Yup. Good catch. The "water in the evening" was awful advice.

learned that one the hard way.:(



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