ook over my neighbor's lawn. She can't handle doing it herself. She hired tru green for 2yrs and go no results. So I asked her if she would mind if I took over. I will kill the weeds and fertilize at no charge. She will have her mowing crew do the mow still handle that part. I am only doing the front yard which is about 2500sq feet. She has dallis, KR Bluestem, dollar weed and whatever else you can think of. Mostly bermuda with a little St. Aug mixed in as the main turf. Goal is to use herbicides that do not take an applicators license and residential lawn approved. So I am not using msma which would be an easier way out. Going to use the best(cheapest) fertilizer I can find. Which is Walmart Texas Turf 15-5-10 for about $15 a bag.

Started it May 21st. This is what it looked like. I applied 1lb of actually Nitrogen per 1000sq feet via the TX Turf to get the Bermuda and St Aug as healthy as I could before applying herbicides.






Two weeks later June 3rd I applied herbicides. This is 3 days after application. You can see the Bluestem and Dallis turning purple.



This is yesterday June 13th, Pretty much looks like I hoped it would. Herbicides are really doing work. Going to need another application around July 1st for a clean up. I think a few weeks after that app I should have the weeds under control and will focus on pushing fert to get the bermuda or St Aug to fill in. Waiting for the weeds to die off good so I can see how much of each is there before I decide which turf type I will cater to.

When was your last app? Did you use the stress blend? If you did and with their bag app rate you would have put down 0.25lbs of nitrogen per 1000. They are recommending every 30-45 days which is fine. Let me know what you have on hand. I'm planning on 2 more apps for the year. This weekend and Oct 1st and call it a year. I will put down about 0.40lbs of N each app.

Do the Stonewall now. Since you have irrigation don't play the rain game. Apply your product and get it watered in. I'll apply late afternoon and irrigate the next morning. I would get 3 or so cheap rain gauges place them in a zone and run that zone for 20 minutes. Check your gauges. If you have an 1/4" in there you know that zone needs to run 40 minutes to apply an 1/2" Do this for every zone and write it down.

If you get a soil test in Feb to early March you'll get the results in time to come up with a game plan. In winter I like to write out my app plan for the year with dates, product and the amount to apply. I bank on my growing season from April 1st. to Oct 1st. Also doing your test in that time frame allows what apps you did make to have been used up and/or leached out over the winter. Giving you your most accurate soil test reading.

Your dates look good. Stonewall do 2.5lbs per 1000 each app. I don't know the Gallery rate. I'll pull the label and let you know.

Your watering is perfect. On the fert go with Scotts Southern Turf Builder or Scotts Max. Similar products but as far as ingredients go the Max is better, but either is fine. But here is the deal. Scotts products are labeled and packaged to apply 0.90lbs of N over the recommended square footage on the bag. So lets say you have 5000sq feet. The Scotts southern 14lb bag is labeled for 5000sq feet. So you would spread 1/2 that bag now over the 5k and the other half 9/30. You're splitting up the 0.90 into two separate apps of 0.45lbs of N. The scotts max will be the same but the weight of the bag will be different as it's a different NPK ratio. Just split it half. If you haven't used scotts before their prill is very small. Basically greens grade SGN(prill size) so make your adjustment for that. It's much different than stress blend.

Yes you can apply both the same day. Just don't mix them in the hopper together. Apply one then come back and apply another. While you're at the store go ahead and get a bag of Scotts Disease Ex. Wait and apply it on your next watering date after the pre and fert. Do label rate on the EX.

Here is the update on my neighbors lawn. In just a few months it went from trash to nice. Not perfect, still have some filling in to do and a few more weeds to kill. I did have to you some high end herbicides at the start. Other than that it's been basic fertilizer, watering and mowing.

Going to throw one more thing out too. Perfect time to go ahead and get an elemental Sulphur app down. Lowes should have Martin brand. If not most tractor suppy's stock the tiger 90 brand. Same product. The tiger 90 is a more uniform prill. Go with the Martin if you can find it to save money. It's like $25 per 50lbs. My Lowes hasn't had it this year and having to get Tiger at Tractor Supply for $38.

I know this sounds like a lot at once. But once you have a program figured out it's not that bad. Most months are easier than others.

And mow your A off. The more you mow bermuda the better.

What's your square footage? You can do the Sulphur same day as the others. Break it up a bit and do some the day before you're allowed water day. Don't stress out and think all these have to be done this exact day and apply XYZ all the same day and right now. Chill and break it up a bit. Lawn Care is not meant to a miserable process, it's a passion. And in your case with Bermuda you ain't going to kill it, but can make it thrive. Your mowing schedule is pretty good, every third day would probably be ideal. Run a decent granular program next year and if you're still addicted lets talk about backpack spraying vs granular. Scalping will need addressed before spring too. Baby steps.

Going to throw one more thing out too. Perfect time to go ahead and get an elemental Sulphur app down. Lowes should have Martin brand. If not most tractor suppy's stock the tiger 90 brand. Same product. The tiger 90 is a more uniform prill. Go with the Martin if you can find it to save money. It's like $25 per 50lbs. My Lowes hasn't had it this year and having to get Tiger at Tractor Supply for $38.

I know this sounds like a lot at once. But once you have a program figured out it's not that bad. Most months are easier than others.

And mow your A off. The more you mow bermuda the better.

Do you guys like this spreader? This is the one I got but I think I paid a little more for it. Looks like it's on sale if anyone is interested.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/ECHO-60-lbs-Heavy-Duty-Spreader-RB-60/311319950

Do you guys like this spreader? This is the one I got but I think I paid a little more for it. Looks like it's on sale if anyone is interested.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/ECHO-60-lbs-Heavy-Duty-Spreader-RB-60/311319950