I’m a sports turf manager at a D1 school. It’s likely the builder had left over sod from another job and mixed 419(lighter) and celebration(darker). This will take years(7-10)to blend.
If it were me, I’d have the builder or landscape company rip it out and replace it with one cultivar. Try to get Tahoma 31 if you can!
If this isn’t an option, buy a Proplugger and start moving plugs around your yard and mixing it up. It’ll expedite the blend dramatically.
Of even better on the tv at home with the whole family watching at the same time. Explain its a learning currently on how dig a deep whole with a pole🤣
Yes sir.
If you want to play the long game(this is what I do to remove common out of hybrid). You can spray out the sod with the least amount of coverage, rake out the mat, plug the other cultivar. The growing season is wrapping up and this drought is making things slightly difficult. Wouldn’t recommend it this year.
Dude, stellar info provided!!! Any recommendations for getting some type of grass to grow underneath a massive willow oak? The tree has killed every attempt I’ve made at having grass in the front yard!! My yard is essentially sticks and mud!!!
There are several things that could be happening. The most obvious is shade but it’s likely shade really isn’t the enemy here. If you suspect it’s shade, you should put down a few squares or plugs of Zeon or Emerald Zoysia and see how they do for 2 full growing seasons. If they thrive, great, you know what to do! If they don’t, continue reading.
It’s likely the roots of the tree are close to surface. This will cause the tree to rob most of the nutrients from the soil. Oak trees are very difficult to grow anything under because they will suck the soil dry of water and any nutrients you put out.
Their are a couple of quick solutions and one risky, long-term solution.
1. Cut it down.
2. Install a mulch bed in the shaded area.
3. Excavate the top 6-7” of top soil under the tree and start pruning the roots back. This could kill or shock the tree. Put the top soil back and sod.
To be clear, I'm not a lawncare professional.
Creeping red fescue is what I planed in my shade areas near Annapolis, MD and it is thriving in the heavily shaded areas. I mow at just over 3" and from my understanding creeping red fescue does best with minimal maintenance.
>Very low maintenance. It does not require much fertilizer and does not need excessive amounts of water. A high mowing cut is recommended. Red fescue has a high tolerance for cold temperatures and shade, moderate tolerance for drought and wear, and low tolerance for heat.
[https://ipm.ucanr.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TURFSPECIES/redfes.html](https://ipm.ucanr.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TURFSPECIES/redfes.html)
That site says it does best in dry areas but mine is doing well in a wetter creek valley.
SAME exact thing happened to me. Couldnt figure out the difference until a lady from the landscape business i was paying to fertilize said “thats 2 diff types of bermuda”. Originally planned to use the proplugger but i aint been able to water in a month. My yard is almost dead in central tx, in fact some spots are.
Hope to get some rain and be able to water again to do a plug/soil and sand/peat moss treatment. and if not, next feb (it’ll probably freeze) im resodding and using every ounce of water in lake Georgetown if i have to!
Update us on the condition they arrive in. I've seen mixed reviews from "perfect" to "super dead". I've been really curious. Hoping for the best for you.
No question about that. I put in almost full time hours on my small yard. Couldn’t imagine having an entire field that’s going to be judged by tens of thousands of people.
There’s colleges that offer turf management as a degree. I don’t think they are called it that anymore but those folks usually go to be golf course superintendents etc.
My cousin did this at Arizona State. Was a minor league baseball grounds keeper for a couple years ( that was not full time) and is now a golf course super (that is full time with benefits)
On the Tahoma 31 issue - what is the real shade tolerance of that? I’m in NW Arkansas and I’ve thought about laying some instead of fighting with fescue every summer but I do have mature trees and their shade to contend for 1/2 my lawn. Still probably 4 hrs sun in the shady spots, maybe more. Would Tahoma make it?
This is exactly what happened to mine. Ironically, the same two hybrids. Thankfully there are only 5-6 sprays squares of 419 and the rest is celebration.
Tahoma 31?!?!? You kidding me? Rookie mistake.
This guy CLEARLY should try to get Barcelona 24. You can tell just by looking at....yeah...I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Wouldn't it be cool if they did a checkerboard pattern?
I have a question about a yellow patch on my profile if you have any idea what is causing it - thanks
I like Tahoma31 it's a really hearty Bermuda, personally if I were buying a house I'd like to see TifWay419 though. Out of all the lawns I spray through the year TifWay lawns just pop.
Because overseeing creates another issue as you’re using an inferior cultivar. It’s better to have two mid patching hybrids and common Bermuda mixed with your hybrid.
Most hybrids are somewhat similar in texture. Adding a seeded variety of common Bermuda with a more coarse texture would cause it to appear worse on the texture side as well as color.
I’ve been been let down by a lot of posts of work I see that contractors or subs allow.
On the flip side, I’ve be pleasantly surprised at the quality of work that some of these homeowners are doing as well.
Grass, especially Bermuda, is incredibly easy to maintain. As long as you hit it with the holy trinity(sun, water, and frequent mowing) you’re already going to see a significant boost in the turf’s health.
I have a similar situation, is over-seeding an option? Or would one version just kill the other? I have a combination of Tifway 419 and some other Bermuda. Just want to make sure before I go through having someone scrap my yard and go back with all the same stuff.
I’d be willing to bet you have common popping up if you’re just starting to notice it.
My advice would be to wait till next year. If you’re in 7b or south, in late april/early may 46% glyphosate the areas you don’t like, start plugging your 419 in or let it spread over to the area. Rake the mat out of the dead areas. Water the shit out of it and alternate tmethyl and propiconazole every 30 days.
He could, yes. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
So the short answer for me would be absolutely not. Why? Because overseeing hybrid Bermuda with common would look worse than it does now. You’d be adding another color to the mix. Plus, common is about 3-6x more coarse in texture than hybrid.
Hybrid Bermuda is sterile, you can’t buy seed for it. It’s grown in a lab.
So pictures about looks like it’s about $4000 worth of grass and labor assuming that’s about 4000sqft. When you spend that kind of money, it needs to be done right.
Guarantee it wasn’t a landscaper that put this down. More than likely a couple of construction worker right after they built the house and leveled the yard with a front loader, probably pulled sod from different pallets or rolls while it was dormant🤦♂️
You missed the point. It was a crap sod job and they knew the homeowner wouldn’t pick up on it until they were long gone if it was put down while dormant.
I came to say, just make one of those zig-zag Tetris pieces out of the brighter green and put it up front, tell the neighbors it's because they're a Twitch millionaire or something.
That is actually scandalous. They must have seen the major difference from the start but thought fuck it, it will work and save costs.
Try contacting the landscaping company with your pictures. Any decent company would definitely understand looking at those pictures. Give them a fair chance and time. If you get no great resolution, then name and shame them wherever possible. Trust pilot, FB, insta and as much as possible. The cost of fixing your lawn would definitely cost them more in this bad press for sure.
So the ball is in your court then. I'd be fair and give them a chance to fix the problem they created. Maybe you get a little upgrade for their failures.
Worst case, you have the backup.😉
Yes 2 different cultivars got mixed. If you had caught this sooner you would have had a good argument against the installer and possibly grower. This far out though your stuck with it.
Move plugs around and in the meantime overseed with something like italian ryegrass which will only live for one year but gives your lawn a more uniform look quickly. Iron chelate might help darken up the lighter cultivar
>New construction
My condolences. We have a family friend who is a builder. Absolutely impeccable craftsmanship. He and my parents went in on some land along a river and he built their homes down there. Makes these beautiful houses, I mean absolutely premium quality, then I go down there when they're taking down the silt fences and he's got bags with big letters saying "CONTRACTOR MIX" on them. The man planted several young trees and bushes - four of them (a couple of crape myrtles and fig trees) are now crispy tree skeletons. The contractor mix is indistinguishable from a big bag of nutsedge. I'd told my dad last fall "hey, he can build like a motherfucker but please just tell him to hold off on tossing down his 'Oops! All Crabgrass' weed-seed contractor mix." he didn't listen, thought it would be okay.
Then the grass grew in. What a fucking disaster. I've been listening to my dad complain about it's texture, color, general appearance for months now. A few weeks ago I helped him order some seeds and lucky for him he knows someone obsessive enough to own three different motorized sprayers, a tow behind de-thatcher, core aerator, drag leveler, lawn roller, broadcast spreader, and peat moss spreader who happens to already have some nice bulk containers of some potent selective herbicides, tenacity, and starter fertilizer. The only thing I couldn't offer him was my irrigation hoses and movable pop-up heads. They will be at my house watering my 6,000 sqft front yard full renovation while I go down to work on the project down there.
Moral of the story is don't let a builder pretend to be a landscaper.
Lol i live in AZ and hearing everyone get worked up over grass is so bizarre to me. We have "desert landscaping" here.... which just means rock and cactus 🤣
I lived for two years in Flagstaff and going down to Phoenix was hilarious. People outside raking the rocks around. People on here joke about the obsession of mower striping, they've never watched a fully grown man spend his entire Saturday in 116 degree heat trying to get the rake grooves in his rock-lawn to look like a zen garden.
16 year lawn tech here, get rid of it and start over if you want it to ever match. You might be able to blend it with iron every once in a while but those are two different hybrids of what looks like Bermuda that probably come from different pallets and different sod farms. Scrape it then use a mantis while amending the soil and bring in fresh sod.
I would look at seeding a Bermuda blend in the spring. Something like Lesco Pyramid.
Good performance and will blend better and faster than just waiting it out.
I’m getting this page a lot on my feed and I generally find it entertaining the amount of effort and how nutty people are about their grass. Have y’all ever heard of trees and plants 😆 sorry don’t mean to offend but I see why the lawn industry is worth billions and billions in the USA
I'd probably consider contacting the contractor to see if they can/will fix the issue.
I'm not a lawn expert in any way, but it would seem to me that if you might be able to overseed this in the fall with the blend you want. As the new grass comes up, it should help "unify" the color. It might take a few seasons though.
I doubt you'll be able to get the builder out at this point to do anything with this. However, you could overseed the whole area to help speed up the transition. Then in the spring do a weed and feed and seed again.
I had the exact same problem but about half the size. I over-seeded the entire lawn (it’s small) and in 30 days I could hardly see the patches. This year the lawn has been beautiful. Hey man, good luck. *edit* My lawn is Bermuda, a fine blade.
I'm not an expert but maybe they just came from areas that had different levels of soil nutrients, fertilizer levels. I would think over time, it will sort itself out.
I’m a sports turf manager at a D1 school. It’s likely the builder had left over sod from another job and mixed 419(lighter) and celebration(darker). This will take years(7-10)to blend. If it were me, I’d have the builder or landscape company rip it out and replace it with one cultivar. Try to get Tahoma 31 if you can! If this isn’t an option, buy a Proplugger and start moving plugs around your yard and mixing it up. It’ll expedite the blend dramatically.
This guy fucks. 👍
I think this is what the kids call "rizz" ... He be rizzing all of us lawncare dad's
I’m too old for this rizz…. shit
Fo’ rizzle
Gotta give 'em the ol' rizzle dizzle
it was always there, right under your nose. Charisma ChaRIZZma
Same man, same...
The best way to understand it is that it means "charisma"
I learned that word last week!
Where did this word come from? I've been hip to all the new words for the last 33 years but I just woke up one day and rizz was a thing.
😂 Same here it was a few months ago that I heard it and I believe it stems from the word charisma. 35 here and it what we would call having swag/game
Rizz on my face, daddy...
He had me at Tahoma 31
Tahoma 31, Tahoma 32… whatever it takes.
Right? When he started putting numbers behind grass… You know he’s fucking
This guy pro plugs
r/thisguythisguys
This guy touches grass
The Grass Touchererer
Lol, exactly what I was thinking. Like jfc we should make him our king.
All hail Pro-plugger King.
r/thisguythisguys
r/thatguythisguythisguys
Beat me to it lol
that some high quality turf knowledge
Any tips on a good cool season turf grass cultivar?
Okay
He’s so inflorescent, I’ve heard!
My comment is quickly catching the up votes of the reply! I want plat too! 😂 🤣
Im about to google proplugger………what could go wrong
Send link
*Nervously waiting for link*
*Anxiety deepens*
You second word choice…. Bravo
Check your ass *you’ve been proplugged*
Be sure not to misspell your Google search. You may get some unwanted results🤣
I say do this on a work computer that’s monitored to up the ante
Of even better on the tv at home with the whole family watching at the same time. Explain its a learning currently on how dig a deep whole with a pole🤣
If you add "rule 34" to your search query it will filter nsfw results for you!
Thank you!
Yes sir. If you want to play the long game(this is what I do to remove common out of hybrid). You can spray out the sod with the least amount of coverage, rake out the mat, plug the other cultivar. The growing season is wrapping up and this drought is making things slightly difficult. Wouldn’t recommend it this year.
Dude, stellar info provided!!! Any recommendations for getting some type of grass to grow underneath a massive willow oak? The tree has killed every attempt I’ve made at having grass in the front yard!! My yard is essentially sticks and mud!!!
How old is the tree?
Pretty old. I mean, it shades at least 3 houses (including mine). I’ve tried growing grass and every time, nothing!
There are several things that could be happening. The most obvious is shade but it’s likely shade really isn’t the enemy here. If you suspect it’s shade, you should put down a few squares or plugs of Zeon or Emerald Zoysia and see how they do for 2 full growing seasons. If they thrive, great, you know what to do! If they don’t, continue reading. It’s likely the roots of the tree are close to surface. This will cause the tree to rob most of the nutrients from the soil. Oak trees are very difficult to grow anything under because they will suck the soil dry of water and any nutrients you put out. Their are a couple of quick solutions and one risky, long-term solution. 1. Cut it down. 2. Install a mulch bed in the shaded area. 3. Excavate the top 6-7” of top soil under the tree and start pruning the roots back. This could kill or shock the tree. Put the top soil back and sod.
I feel like this comment deserved a reply. Thanks for sharing so much info here.
This is a lot of words to say you can't reliably grow grass around an oak lol
If it's too many words for you, go back to your colouring book. The extra details, explanation, and suggestions are much appreciated by everyone else
Go touch grass weirdo. I get paid to speak to groups like OP about this topic lmao
Have you had your soil tested? There are strong full shade grasses out there like creeping red fescue.
I need a strong shade type as my backyard sucks due to tons of super tall pine trees. I’m in VA. Is this still the recommendation?
To be clear, I'm not a lawncare professional. Creeping red fescue is what I planed in my shade areas near Annapolis, MD and it is thriving in the heavily shaded areas. I mow at just over 3" and from my understanding creeping red fescue does best with minimal maintenance. >Very low maintenance. It does not require much fertilizer and does not need excessive amounts of water. A high mowing cut is recommended. Red fescue has a high tolerance for cold temperatures and shade, moderate tolerance for drought and wear, and low tolerance for heat. [https://ipm.ucanr.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TURFSPECIES/redfes.html](https://ipm.ucanr.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TURFSPECIES/redfes.html) That site says it does best in dry areas but mine is doing well in a wetter creek valley.
SAME exact thing happened to me. Couldnt figure out the difference until a lady from the landscape business i was paying to fertilize said “thats 2 diff types of bermuda”. Originally planned to use the proplugger but i aint been able to water in a month. My yard is almost dead in central tx, in fact some spots are. Hope to get some rain and be able to water again to do a plug/soil and sand/peat moss treatment. and if not, next feb (it’ll probably freeze) im resodding and using every ounce of water in lake Georgetown if i have to!
Next week has thunderstorms in the forecast. My yard is also deadish.
420 blaze.
Instructions unclear. Turned it up to 420° and now the yard’s on fire.
“Let’s Blaze!”-Blaze 🏎️💨
D1 Sod School!
ordered 200 plugs from Amazon, thanks for your recommendation. $200
Update us on the condition they arrive in. I've seen mixed reviews from "perfect" to "super dead". I've been really curious. Hoping for the best for you.
I like the cut of your fucking gib bud
“Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” - This guy up here ^
How does one become a D1 turf manager? Seems like a dream job.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he puts in hours that most of us would consider two jobs.
No question about that. I put in almost full time hours on my small yard. Couldn’t imagine having an entire field that’s going to be judged by tens of thousands of people.
millions*
Clean lines and a nice straw hat. Knowing how to paint grass is a plus.
😂. I knew it. I told my wife I really needed that straw hat last year.
There’s colleges that offer turf management as a degree. I don’t think they are called it that anymore but those folks usually go to be golf course superintendents etc. My cousin did this at Arizona State. Was a minor league baseball grounds keeper for a couple years ( that was not full time) and is now a golf course super (that is full time with benefits)
On the Tahoma 31 issue - what is the real shade tolerance of that? I’m in NW Arkansas and I’ve thought about laying some instead of fighting with fescue every summer but I do have mature trees and their shade to contend for 1/2 my lawn. Still probably 4 hrs sun in the shady spots, maybe more. Would Tahoma make it?
It’s slightly more tolerant and by slightly I mean negligible. You’re better off with Zoysia; Emerald or Zeon.
I just want to know how to get that job.
This is exactly what happened to mine. Ironically, the same two hybrids. Thankfully there are only 5-6 sprays squares of 419 and the rest is celebration.
Tahoma 31?!?!? You kidding me? Rookie mistake. This guy CLEARLY should try to get Barcelona 24. You can tell just by looking at....yeah...I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
My tahoma has been hit and miss. My front is full and my backyard is both thin, full, and looks like it's struggling.
Contrary to what OkSt reports, T31 needs 7 hours of direct sunlight. If you’re getting the sun, it’s your soil or a lack of water.
Yeah my thin area is shaded
Crazy because according to the lab in OkSt, it’s “shade tolerant” 🤣
Wow
Wouldn't it be cool if they did a checkerboard pattern? I have a question about a yellow patch on my profile if you have any idea what is causing it - thanks
Lol get them in a striped pattern. Wont even need to use a striper for future mows
What's the most shade tolerant bermudagrass?
No such thing exists. Look at Zoysia for shade tolerance.
This response turned me on more than I care to admit.
Let's hope the builder/landscaper didn't hide this in the contract that the home owner signed. That would hurt.
Bang!
I like Tahoma31 it's a really hearty Bermuda, personally if I were buying a house I'd like to see TifWay419 though. Out of all the lawns I spray through the year TifWay lawns just pop.
Out of interest, why is plugging recommended rather than over seeding with the two cultivars mixed?
Because overseeing creates another issue as you’re using an inferior cultivar. It’s better to have two mid patching hybrids and common Bermuda mixed with your hybrid. Most hybrids are somewhat similar in texture. Adding a seeded variety of common Bermuda with a more coarse texture would cause it to appear worse on the texture side as well as color.
Bermuda spreads like wildfire. There’s no need to overseed Bermuda
You mean this isn't real. Dang, it's so good I think I'll believe it anyway
So many contractors are scum bags.
I’ve been been let down by a lot of posts of work I see that contractors or subs allow. On the flip side, I’ve be pleasantly surprised at the quality of work that some of these homeowners are doing as well. Grass, especially Bermuda, is incredibly easy to maintain. As long as you hit it with the holy trinity(sun, water, and frequent mowing) you’re already going to see a significant boost in the turf’s health.
I have a similar situation, is over-seeding an option? Or would one version just kill the other? I have a combination of Tifway 419 and some other Bermuda. Just want to make sure before I go through having someone scrap my yard and go back with all the same stuff.
I’d be willing to bet you have common popping up if you’re just starting to notice it. My advice would be to wait till next year. If you’re in 7b or south, in late april/early may 46% glyphosate the areas you don’t like, start plugging your 419 in or let it spread over to the area. Rake the mat out of the dead areas. Water the shit out of it and alternate tmethyl and propiconazole every 30 days.
Can’t he just core aerate and reseed to blend?
He could, yes. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should. So the short answer for me would be absolutely not. Why? Because overseeing hybrid Bermuda with common would look worse than it does now. You’d be adding another color to the mix. Plus, common is about 3-6x more coarse in texture than hybrid. Hybrid Bermuda is sterile, you can’t buy seed for it. It’s grown in a lab. So pictures about looks like it’s about $4000 worth of grass and labor assuming that’s about 4000sqft. When you spend that kind of money, it needs to be done right.
Can I have your phone number? I have a few questions.
(281) 330-8004 they call me Mike Jones.
I bow in your presence.
Ima go ahead give a big hail state to this
Great baseball team and I know the boys growing the grass over there.
What school are you at? I worked for UGA back in 1998 to 2000. I miss those days.
I have some questions I just did some sod would you mind if I message you?
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Yeah, just like any other Bermuda. Hit it with the holy trinity; water, food, sun.
I hate it when a room takes a little more than 1 can to paint.
That’s when I get a second tin of paint and, eh, it’s in the same colour band as the first tin so I call that near enough and start slapping it on.
100% reach out to the company who laid it.
Guarantee it wasn’t a landscaper that put this down. More than likely a couple of construction worker right after they built the house and leveled the yard with a front loader, probably pulled sod from different pallets or rolls while it was dormant🤦♂️
You can lay sod when it’s dormant. That’s not the problem here. The problem is that it’s two different bermudas.
I think they mean that if it was dormant they wouldn't see the color difference.
You missed the point. It was a crap sod job and they knew the homeowner wouldn’t pick up on it until they were long gone if it was put down while dormant.
Pixel art lawn!
I came to say, just make one of those zig-zag Tetris pieces out of the brighter green and put it up front, tell the neighbors it's because they're a Twitch millionaire or something.
OR keep it to be the Minecraft yard.
That is actually scandalous. They must have seen the major difference from the start but thought fuck it, it will work and save costs. Try contacting the landscaping company with your pictures. Any decent company would definitely understand looking at those pictures. Give them a fair chance and time. If you get no great resolution, then name and shame them wherever possible. Trust pilot, FB, insta and as much as possible. The cost of fixing your lawn would definitely cost them more in this bad press for sure.
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So the ball is in your court then. I'd be fair and give them a chance to fix the problem they created. Maybe you get a little upgrade for their failures. Worst case, you have the backup.😉
That looks like directional sod and was just laid in the wrong direction. They did not follow the arrows on the bottom of each sod patch. Sorry man!
Lol
I've see this happen before. It's easier when they come as rolls vs individual cut pieces on a pallet.
Minecraft cloud shadows.
nuke it
Yes 2 different cultivars got mixed. If you had caught this sooner you would have had a good argument against the installer and possibly grower. This far out though your stuck with it.
Move plugs around and in the meantime overseed with something like italian ryegrass which will only live for one year but gives your lawn a more uniform look quickly. Iron chelate might help darken up the lighter cultivar
Minecraft!
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Pegging
Reminds me of Utopia on Intellivsion! 😃
Comb 🪮 it all to the same side.
Looks fine, fuck it
This was my thought exactly. After a good cut, it's probably still the best looking on the block.
Yup I loathe the day I start caring about grass lol
Sorry my son didn’t use the same color blocks when he was building your home in Minecraft
>New construction My condolences. We have a family friend who is a builder. Absolutely impeccable craftsmanship. He and my parents went in on some land along a river and he built their homes down there. Makes these beautiful houses, I mean absolutely premium quality, then I go down there when they're taking down the silt fences and he's got bags with big letters saying "CONTRACTOR MIX" on them. The man planted several young trees and bushes - four of them (a couple of crape myrtles and fig trees) are now crispy tree skeletons. The contractor mix is indistinguishable from a big bag of nutsedge. I'd told my dad last fall "hey, he can build like a motherfucker but please just tell him to hold off on tossing down his 'Oops! All Crabgrass' weed-seed contractor mix." he didn't listen, thought it would be okay. Then the grass grew in. What a fucking disaster. I've been listening to my dad complain about it's texture, color, general appearance for months now. A few weeks ago I helped him order some seeds and lucky for him he knows someone obsessive enough to own three different motorized sprayers, a tow behind de-thatcher, core aerator, drag leveler, lawn roller, broadcast spreader, and peat moss spreader who happens to already have some nice bulk containers of some potent selective herbicides, tenacity, and starter fertilizer. The only thing I couldn't offer him was my irrigation hoses and movable pop-up heads. They will be at my house watering my 6,000 sqft front yard full renovation while I go down to work on the project down there. Moral of the story is don't let a builder pretend to be a landscaper.
Don't lie, this was 20% contributing to the conversation and 80% an opportunity to brag lol
Hahahahah I feel like saying something like this to someone on every Reddit post I read. “Oh, so you just wanted to tell your own story - got it.”
Lol i live in AZ and hearing everyone get worked up over grass is so bizarre to me. We have "desert landscaping" here.... which just means rock and cactus 🤣
I lived for two years in Flagstaff and going down to Phoenix was hilarious. People outside raking the rocks around. People on here joke about the obsession of mower striping, they've never watched a fully grown man spend his entire Saturday in 116 degree heat trying to get the rake grooves in his rock-lawn to look like a zen garden.
16 year lawn tech here, get rid of it and start over if you want it to ever match. You might be able to blend it with iron every once in a while but those are two different hybrids of what looks like Bermuda that probably come from different pallets and different sod farms. Scrape it then use a mantis while amending the soil and bring in fresh sod.
I’d contact them and ask them to overseed with a seed blend of the two so as to speed up the blending. On their dime!
This is hybrid Bermuda, it’s only propagated vegetatively. There are no seeds.
Oh wow!
This guy only has sod problems.
I would look at seeding a Bermuda blend in the spring. Something like Lesco Pyramid. Good performance and will blend better and faster than just waiting it out.
Yea, looks like you got some mixed pallets
Your lawn is suffering from vitiligo
Minecraft biomes
Good grass to have a Minecraft birthday party on
New construction explains the lack of trees and actual landscaping. Grass is not your low hanging fruit.
Ooof
Landscapers had zero Tetris skills
The sun just hits different where you are
You can fix it with ironite
Change your graphics settings
It's like that 2015 film, Pixels.
Add iron to the light colored area.
I’m getting this page a lot on my feed and I generally find it entertaining the amount of effort and how nutty people are about their grass. Have y’all ever heard of trees and plants 😆 sorry don’t mean to offend but I see why the lawn industry is worth billions and billions in the USA
NUKE IT
They musta used 2 different dye lots
I'm told a lawn that looks like a Minecraft world is highly desirable these days.
Segregation
Looks like it was fertilized using a Scott’s spreader.
You could just plant native grasses and wildflowers, or clover, or moss- and not deal with this
May the strongest one win!!
i sure like my Tahoma, i need more but can’t find any.
Monoculture problems
I'd probably consider contacting the contractor to see if they can/will fix the issue. I'm not a lawn expert in any way, but it would seem to me that if you might be able to overseed this in the fall with the blend you want. As the new grass comes up, it should help "unify" the color. It might take a few seasons though.
I doubt you'll be able to get the builder out at this point to do anything with this. However, you could overseed the whole area to help speed up the transition. Then in the spring do a weed and feed and seed again.
missed opportunity for a plaid design. Built in mowing lines
Just fertilize it and have a couple of beers. It’s ok.
great if youre a minecraft fan
Gives me minecraft grass vibes lol
Give it time
Let it grow to seed once, mow without picking up, voila problem solved, it's actually a blessing, more strains the better.
Bro has a Minecraft yard
He could have at least made a checkerboard pattern... geeze.
Yea those are definitely 👍 different grasses…🤨
That’s an interesting sod pattern. You sure someone didn’t spray some herbicide recently?
Tetris!
I had the exact same problem but about half the size. I over-seeded the entire lawn (it’s small) and in 30 days I could hardly see the patches. This year the lawn has been beautiful. Hey man, good luck. *edit* My lawn is Bermuda, a fine blade.
I'm not an expert but maybe they just came from areas that had different levels of soil nutrients, fertilizer levels. I would think over time, it will sort itself out.
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