When is it too late to plant bermuda grass
Planting Bermuda Grass Seed
man I hate loggin saying hey guys doc
I'm gonna do a video on the second phase
of my putting green but it also relates
to seeding Bermuda so I figured I'd tie
it into the seeding of Bermuda why do
you guys have questions on that so I
think it'll work
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she's after the frogs uh uh no ma'am
you leave those frogs alone last week I
showed you kind of how to make sort of a
chipping green and this week what I'm
doing is I'm taking account to the next
level and what I'm doing is I'm adding
some different material and then I'm
seating and then doing a bunch of
different stuff but I figured I'd show
that because it relates to seating of
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understand is in the description below
I'm gonna link to a page and on that
website page I'm gonna put this video
but I'm also gonna put a couple other
videos I'm gonna embed them about
seating other videos I did in those
videos I discussed the difference
between common Vernita hybrid Bermuda
and saw low-quality seeds and
high-quality seeds and why you should
not over seed an existing sod lon there
are so many things that you have to
understand so I'm gonna put those other
videos on this page rather than cover
all that stuff again remember the the
see that you go to a big box store like
home
Loes all those Bermuda seeds are cheap
common Bermuda they are not the
high-quality Bermuda that you buy I've
got a little bag about this big inside
on the kitchen counter
I used maybe about a third of it and
it's like $40 for that little bag
quality Bermuda seat is not cheap it's
expensive and that's what replicates
that really fine golf course or sod type
Bermuda do not go by common cheap
Bermuda if you're paying ten bag ten
dollars for a bag of Bermuda you throw
over your shoulder it's kind of it's
gonna be common it's gonna be big and
gnarly it's not what you want okay I'm
gonna walk you down here real quick but
I want you to remember the Bermuda lawn
guide has an entire section on seating
Bermuda and if you have not gone and
book bar to Bermuda lawn guide get it
because it has a Bermuda calendar on
there and it walks you through every
single subject that you could possibly
want and it has product links in there
everything so it's free has everything
about Bermuda that you want to know use
the Bermuda long guide there's a section
on seating in there as well too
okay so I'm over here with the new golf
green that we're putting in and let me
give you a couple rules real quick for
planning for me to see number one make
sure you're not grabbing common Bermuda
you have to go online in the description
below I'll link to some seeds UConn
princess Black Jack there's a bunch of
them and all this quality seeds they're
expensive twenty to sixty dollars a
pound is what you're gonna pay for good
quality that replicates sod it's a very
fine grass so make sure you get the
right seed and it's hard to get because
it's limited availability rule number
two make sure you do not have
pre-emergent down if you do not if you
have put down pre-emergent you really
have to give it 90 days so 90 days for
your pre-emergent if you have put down
weed killer I want you to make sure that
it's been at least two weeks since you
put down weed killer and that you've had
good rain if you haven't had good rain
over those two week periods make sure
your water really well number three if
you're going to be putting it on
raw bear soil last year we did a video
where we seated across the street and
any time you're gonna see Bermuda you
really should get a dethatching machine
run a dethatcher and that dethatcher
will will stir up all that ground and
you don't have to till it necessarily
but you really have to get about a half
inch into the ground bermuda sea likes
to be buried about a quarter of an inch
as what we found over the years the best
success is when Bermuda seed is about a
quarter of an inch down so you're gonna
have to disturb the surface in some way
if you're gonna plant for me this next
let's talk about watering you have to
keep that seed way it's a it's a project
I will come out here and I will keep
this damp and wet I'll show you my
sprinkler system here in a minute but I
also come out in hand water if it's like
today where it's gonna be 81 82 degrees
I'll come out several times in the
afternoon and just wet this or hit my
sprinkler system and let my sprinkler
system run I want to keep it wet keep it
wet keep away right before the night
time I usually come out here and I wet
it right right at sunset so it's damp
all night
most Bermuda seed will germinate in
seven to 14 days it's slow to germinate
I want you to understand that too time
of the year that you want to plant you
always want to plan for me to seed when
it's warm so when the daytime highs are
consistently in the 80s that's a great
time to plant you can even stretch that
into the 90s if you have irrigation you
can plant Bermuda in the summertime as
long as you have irrigation and you're
willing to put the effort into water
another rule is you do not want to put
pre-emergent on new Bermuda seed
probably for at least I would say a good
three months because pre-emergent stops
a root growth and that's what you don't
want you don't want to stop root growth
so you just live with any weeds that
come up really for the first year just
live with the weeds let them for me to
grow next year the following year you
can worry about putting pre-emergent
down preparing if you're going to
prepare if you're going to till up a
piece of land put down a ton of you
I mean as much as you can put down if
you're gonna till something up just dump
a ton of human char and get it into the
soil get your area ready put down a
light coat of pgf complete and then put
down your seed last year we had a guys
send in a photo where he seeded Bermuda
on his back yard put down pgf complete
and it was amazing if you want to spray
a little super juice spray a little
super juice the humic the fulvic acid
inside of it is all good for helping
seeds sprout a matter of fact I will
come out here tomorrow and I'll hit this
with a treatment of super juice because
it just has that super juice for some
reason there's something inside of it
and I don't know if it's the sea kelp or
the humic or the fulvic acids or
whatever it is it helps we found it
helps seeds germinate about 20% quicker
and we get better seed germination from
it and that's basically it you just want
to leave it alone and keep it wet keep
it wet keep it with don't use any like I
said if you have weeds pop up just leave
with your we live with your weeds
don't be putting negative things like
weed killers and pre-emergents on young
planted sod or on new on new seed so
what I'm gonna do today is I'm just
gonna run you through sort of what I did
I figured I'd capture some of it on this
isn't a normal seed planting video for a
lawn but I figured I'd show this because
I told you guys I put it on film so I'm
gonna put it on film anyway so you don't
get confused last week we came out here
and we took just our basic Bermuda lawn
and I put in the first transition into a
putting green and what I did was I came
out here and I cor Airy the living heck
out of this area I dumped down a huge
amount of humid or ten times the battery
turned its solid black then came out and
puts and just place in place and place
in and then we raked it shaped a raked
it shaped it so that was basically the
point that I went to just to create a
sort of chipping green I guess you would
call it that you could just stop and
leave it at that cut it real short this
is phase two now phase two what I'm
doing is
I got this I guess you would call it
screen topsoil but it really is a
leveling mix and it's 30% organic
material and it's 70% sand and it's
really dark and that's what you're gonna
see when I put this out you'll notice
the contrast but between this material
and the sand so this in in the golf
industry in my background is golf this
is what we would call a routing mix this
is our routing mix where it has lots of
organic material and if you're going to
do long leveling really that's what
you're supposed to use so this is the
area that grass can grow in our seed can
germinate in I'm gonna put out a layer
of that you'll see me put a layer of
that out and then I'm gonna come back
with sand on top of that later so this
is actually the finished project that
I'm gonna walk you through so we came
out here core aerated put white pure
sand down shape the green the next week
which was the other day it came out here
and I put out the dark material the
growing material put seed inside of it
rolled it put seed and then today
another day I came out and put more
white sand on top of it for that
hardening layer and so now basically all
this is finished I'm gonna let you see
me doing that but this is the finished
product we're just waiting for the seed
to germinate grow and hold all this and
then over time we'll just keep putting
sand and leveling it sand and leveling
it and pretty soon we'll have something
that looks like a golf green so let me
show you what I did the other day this
is kind of relating to planting seeds
you at least you'll be able to see so a
lot of people want to argue about sand
versus leveling mix go ahead argue all
you want but I'm going to show you a
dramatic difference between the two of
them I'm going to show you plain pure
whites and then I'm going to show you
leveling mix and if you can't grasp this
concept
you probably don't need to be doing your
own lawn care they're worse and there's
leveling mix see the difference leveling
mix sand good bad strong people this is
common sense plants don't like to grow
in pure sand that they like to have
organic matter inside of it so if you're
really gonna do a lot of top dressing
professionally then you have to have a
leveling mix it's custom mixed up and I
just don't know how to argue it anymore
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now I'm done so let me check that looks
like that
see we can barely see any of that seed
now most of it's under the ground if I
want to come up pose this I'll hose this
I'm done for the day
wait that was a long day so that layer
was the layer with the 30% organic
material that's the layer that the seed
is gonna sit and germinate and grow out
of
and then again today I came out here and
started putting my pure white sand again
on top and again on top and that's
what's gonna make that final kind of
real level
I'll come out here with a leveling rake
and add more more and more and just keep
working it and it's gonna sprout its
gonna grow up through it now in case
you're wondering I have two rollers one
is a water roller and one is a sand
roller that's sand roller it's like 25
gallons times almost 13 pounds per
gallon it's like 300 pounds or something
that is a bear to push anyone can push a
water roller just and roll and my legs
are sore so that's basically where I am
we came out here we did an initial
treatment we did our seeding treatment
and then we're doing a topcoat of sand
now obviously this is more for green
this is a song of green but at least you
get a concept of getting that Bermuda
seed into the soil a little bit and then
covering it up and then watering a
watering now the wonderful thing about
this and I'll show you this here in a
minute is I have sprinkler heads all
around this so I have five sprinkler
heads and it looks like Augusta all
these sprinkler heads start running on
this so I can start watering it but this
is my final that's the final green right
there and like I said once it starts
growing I'll just come back out here and
just keep the leveling widths and
leveling widths and get it nice and
smooth and will actually be probably
able to put on this believe it or not
the Bermuda that's gonna pop up here
unfortunately is not dwarf which you
really need for a pudding surface but
I'm gonna keep cutting it really short
I'm gonna keep it at about probably
close to eight of an inch back here
we'll see how it goes so anyways guys I
told you I'd put that on film
I don't know if you get anything from it
but it's one of those sundae projects
sundae projects I'm starting to just do
something that I want to do regular
maintenance where tomorrow we're coming
out here we're gonna cut all this grass
at least Jacob will come out here we're
going to cut the back got a cut of you
so it's subscribe I'll talk to you later
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