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items Beginner Southern Bermuda Lawn Care tips and products for busy Moms! Found my love for lawn work after quitting my job of 15 years and becoming a stay at home mom. These tools and products work great for reviving and maintaining Bermuda in the South.
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Tips
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Fertilizer Granular
Get the lawn healthy by feeding it the right stuff. These products make that grass green and grow!
Quick Results, affordable, readily available at big box. I put this down right before it rains so I don’t have to run the sprinklers 🤣
Sta-Green 40-lb 10500-sq ft 20-0 Lawn Fertilizer
I love the quick results and how green my grass gets with this. Use in a spreader and off you go.
Scotts Green Max Lawn Food & Iron Supplement
Pre Em
Get those weeds under control. These products prevent seasonal weeds from germinating so it’s super important to get this down to minimize the weeds.
Basic Weed & Feed for the lawn that actually does a great job. I apply it at half the rate, 4 times a year, like I do my preemergent.
3-In-1 Weed And Feed For Southern Lawns
Prodoamine pre emergent for Fall Split App/summer weeds. I mix it in with my fertilizer application when it’s time to put it down.
BARRICADE PRE-EMERGENCE 10 LB.
Post Em
Can’t beat them all sometimes! This stuff kills the weeds that pop up even after the Pre ‘Em routine, but doesn’t kill your Bermuda.
Easy way to get rid of sedge without dinging your lawn. Also handles other weeds. Just hook it up to the hose, aim, and spray!
Ortho Nutsedge Killer Ready-To-Spray Lawn
For that stubborn nutsedge and other weeds. Great at not dinging the Bermuda. Sprayer needed for applying.
Sedgehammer Herbicide 1.33oz USA-Made
Fe
Level up the green color by using Iron. Granular or chelated, and in moderation, is the way to get that turf like green.
Easy to get from big box, easy to apply with a spreader, just need to blow any off the sidewalk
Sta-Green All Season Plus Iron 36-lb 12000-sq ft 22-0-4 All-purpose ...
Tips
Just some tips/methods to help get the lawn to optimal condition.
I have great luck using this for leveling or filling in spots in a pinch. Screened and no large rocks.
Quikrete 50 lb. Premium Play Sand 111351
Great price for 1 cubic yard of masonry sand. Best sand to use for leveling an uneven and bumpy lawn.
Home, Katy, TX | Katy Stone and Gravel
Use this as a surfactant! Just mix it in after you’ve mixed the water and pesticide/insecticide/fertilizer in the spray tank
Dawn Dish Soap in Dawn - Walmart.com
Tools
Beginner tools that I use to maintain my yard. Easy to use and manageable for someone who is 5ft and physical strength challenged
Difficult for me to adjust blades but love how low it can cut and easy to mow despite an uneven lawn. Not great with even small pieces of mulch. Super lightweight for me to carry around if necessary.
Earthwise 1715-16EW 16-Inch 7-Blade Push Mower
Love how easy it is to use and put away by folding after use. I also like that it can cut to 1 inch and runs on batter.
RYOBI Lawn Mowers
Super simple to use and not too heavy to carry. Great for getting fertilizer off concrete and back into the grass, or getting grass clippings out of the edging.
RYOBI - Leaf Blowers
Bought multiple tanks for different uses to keep chemicals/iron/insecticide/fertilizer separate
1 Gallon - Pump Sprayers
Great beginner reel mower. So easy to adjust the height of your cut with this, unlike my Earthwise. Easy to also place the grass catcher in front of the blades.
StaySharp 18 in. Cut Manual Push Non Electric Walk Behind Reel Mower
I know there’s a lot of hate for this guy with the wheels and all, but I don’t have any issues with it. It’s light, easy to store and easy to hose off. I use it to spread anything granular.
Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Spreader
I have this exact set. The handle can be turned at any angle which is awesome for edging or trimming.
RYOBI - Edgers - The Home Depot
Insecticide
No bugs please. Thanks.
Kill Grubs, June Bug larvae, and other insects that eat roots or grass blades.
24 Hour Grub Killer Plus Granules
My favorite bug spray. Keeps mosquitoes, ants, aphids, lawn insects and all sorts of bugs away from my yard and home. Oil based. I spray 3ft up around my home, and on my trees. I get about 3 months of protection, and a little bit of product goes a lo...
Bifen XTS Insecticide | Professional-Grade Termite & Pest Control
Can also be used indoor! Great for keeping the insects at bay.
Bifenthrin I/T 7.9 F for Insects, (1 Gallon)
Break the growth cycle!
PIVOT ® 10 Insect Growth Regulator Concentrate
Second choice of bug control if I don’t have Bifen on hand
Suspend SC Insecticide
Health
Prevent and treat fungus that grows when conditions aren’t favorable
BioAdvanced Lawn Fungus Control 10 -lb Fungicide Lowes.com
The best at treating some pretty bad fungal infections
PROPICONAZOLE 14.3 Fungicide - Control Solutions Inc.