Any help would be greatly appreciated!
A little background: I moved into a house where the front lawn was irrigated through flood irrigation from ditch water. This would cause erosion and bring in whatever weed seeds were in the water to begin with. The lawn was 20% common Bermuda and 80% weeds. I plan on laying some yukon Bermuda seed when the weather warms up a little bit more. So I hired someone to til the land and rip out as much of the Bermuda as possible. I then installed an irrigation system. AAANNDDDDD I think that catches us up to now....
Currently I have been spraying my 12,000 sqft front yard with good ole 41% glyphosate to kill any remaining weeds and common Bermuda, as it rained and rained and rained approximately 2 weeks prior to this. I have currently done two rounds of spraying and will probably do one more. My question is after all the spraying, and killing (fingers crossed), the remaining weeds/common Bermuda, Do I really need to harley rake the sparse amount of dead foliage or can I just hand rake the soil before seeding? I know I will have to combat weeds anyways, with seeding, I mostly just wanted to kill the common Bermuda with the glyphosate, but now my thinking is that dead organic matter might help the soil and retain moisture while seeding. And yes I am trying to cute corners as well as costs.
I plan on adding milorganite to the top layer of soil immediately before or just when I plan to lay my yukon Bermuda seed. I am definitely new to the lawn world and would appreciate any help and/or advice you could give. Thanks a bunch.
A little background: I moved into a house where the front lawn was irrigated through flood irrigation from ditch water. This would cause erosion and bring in whatever weed seeds were in the water to begin with. The lawn was 20% common Bermuda and 80% weeds. I plan on laying some yukon Bermuda seed when the weather warms up a little bit more. So I hired someone to til the land and rip out as much of the Bermuda as possible. I then installed an irrigation system. AAANNDDDDD I think that catches us up to now....
Currently I have been spraying my 12,000 sqft front yard with good ole 41% glyphosate to kill any remaining weeds and common Bermuda, as it rained and rained and rained approximately 2 weeks prior to this. I have currently done two rounds of spraying and will probably do one more. My question is after all the spraying, and killing (fingers crossed), the remaining weeds/common Bermuda, Do I really need to harley rake the sparse amount of dead foliage or can I just hand rake the soil before seeding? I know I will have to combat weeds anyways, with seeding, I mostly just wanted to kill the common Bermuda with the glyphosate, but now my thinking is that dead organic matter might help the soil and retain moisture while seeding. And yes I am trying to cute corners as well as costs.
I plan on adding milorganite to the top layer of soil immediately before or just when I plan to lay my yukon Bermuda seed. I am definitely new to the lawn world and would appreciate any help and/or advice you could give. Thanks a bunch.
