How to Get Rid of Bermudagrass Without Moving

There's an old joke in the lawn business regarding Bermudagrass (sometimes spelled Bermuda grass). There's only one sure way to get rid of it...move. Once Bermuda grass, a warm season perennial grass, gets into your lawn, it is nearly impossible to get it out. The only realistic option we had was to apply a broad spectrum herbicide to kill everything and start over.

That is, until 3 years ago when BASF came out with Pylex. My company, Bio Green, first tested it August of 2013. We selected 12 cool season lawns  with a variety of perennial grassy weed problems (6 with Bermuda , 3 with bent grass, 2 with nimblewill and one with dallisgrass). All of which we were told by the good folks from BASF that Pylex would selectively control without hurting our bluegrass/tall fescue turf.

The results were fantastic. We saw nearly 100% control on all but the dallisgrass (more like 75%). With no additional treatment (except on the dallisgrass which we retreated year 2), we have yet to see any recurrence. We now offer this treatment as a regular service.

Photo credit:"Cynodon dactylon 2" by Bidgee - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Author: Dave Schrader, the NOVA Lawn Guru

Welcome to the NOVA Lawn Guru Blog

Welcome to my Blog

You may know that I write a blog over at Bio Green, right on this page (click the link!).

You may ask, "So Dave, why do you now have another blog here on the Blogger platform? I've heard that you're a pretty busy guy these days!", to which I respond - yes, I am busy but I have a lot to say about Northern VA lawn care, sprinklers, etc.

Weingarten Syndrome

Not sure how of you have read Gene Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway" in The Washington Post Magazine section of the Sunday paper. Or maybe read him online. Anyhoo, Gene often references his ruthless editor, Tom the Butcher who spends his days taking the wind out of Gene's sails with what he feels are unneeded edits.

I, too, feel the sting of the red pen (ok, red revision marks online) when I write for the Bio Green blog, plus often I have thoughts on topics that don't fit into the tidy 'Editorial Calendar', so this blog is born.

Lawn Care to What Fish I'm Catching

While my main focus of the blog will be on lawn care and related topics, I'm also an avid fisherman so you may see a photo or two of the latest catch. Hope you'll stop by again, and thanks for visiting my blog!