Hi everybody, this is my first actual post besides an intro I did. My name is Rob and I have a question regarding this unwanted grass type I have in my lawn.
As you can see, from far back, the lawn presents itself half decent, I think anyways considering this is the first year I have actually tried to do my research and work on the lawn. The majority of this lawn was planted long before I bought the house in 2011. It's not as dark green as I had it previously in the year, but we have had very little rain (I live on Vancouver Island) in the past 2 months, basically nothing. I do however water twice per week, and the remaining turf has done quite well.
When you get a little bit closer to the house, the lawn takes on a brown cast. The lawn appears to have gone leggy in sections, and from a little research, my best guess is I have Bermuda grass growing in my lawn? At least from what I saw in a LCN video, it appears to look like Bermuda. Will other types of grass do this?
I have been seeding bare spots with a mainly perennial rye mix throughout the spring, and achieved a result I was fairly content with. Going forward, trying to eliminate these unwanted areas (which I have in the front, and even worse in the back) what would be my best course of action?
I have read about Bermuda grass selective herbicides, though have not found one sold in Canada. I was thinking about waiting until fall (for any action really) raking out these sections as best I can, over seeding, and hopefully choking out the unwanted turf. Any thoughts on this?
The back is particularly bad, the grass has even begun to grow horizontal in spots. I can actually cut the lawn, and then pull up bent blades, or blades that have grown horizontally and woven themselves into the surrounding lawn, that are 7-8" tall! Pretty awful.
I have included some pics of my lawn and how she currently sits, and a few pics of how she looked in the spring.
I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing back and getting to know you all.
-Rob
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Rob Baxter, on Flickr
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