How to Care for Bermudagrass With Weeds

According to the University of Florida, bermudagrass is one of the most popular warm-season turf choices for southern regions. Though bermudagrass can establish quickly and compete with weeds, almost no lawn is without a few grassy or broadleaf weed types. It's important for the health of your lawn to remove the weeds; doing so ensures your grass receives as much of the nutrients from the soil as possible.

Soil thermometer
Pre-emergent herbicide
Broadleaf herbicide
Grassy-weed herbicide
Lawn mower

Instructions

- 1
  Walk out into the yard when temperatures start to rise after the last frost and check your soil temperature. Weed seeds need to have soil temperatures around 55 degrees F for several days to germinate. Press the soil thermometer into the first inch of top soil to see if the soil has warmed up. Apply a pre-emergent herbicide in the early spring to help control perennial weeds.
- 2
  Water existing weeds for two weeks. It's easier to kill actively growing weeds with post-emergent herbicide.
- 3
  Spray your lawn with a selective herbicide that kills broadleaf weeds and contains dicamba. Walk around your lawn and focus your efforts on broadleaf weeds such as clover, dandelions and chickweeds.
- 4
  Apply an herbicide on the lawn that selectively kills grassy weeds, but does not harm the bermudagrass, such as one that contains monosodium methanearsonate. Spray the herbicide on crabgrass, annual bluegrass and goosegrass.
- 5
  Reapply all three herbicides throughout the growing season until the bermudagrass goes dormant in the fall.

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