teacup754 said:I will add that the builders around here put too many shrubs in the front beds with nothing blocking the Bermuda grass from invading. Within 6 months if you don't keep up with it, you have one big mess on your hands.
My neighbor a couple doors up just asked me how I plant with weed barrier. She didn't realize that I cut holes where the plants go, and then slowly cut them bigger as the plants grow. Even with weed barrier, I still battle Japanese stiltgrass, ivy, and some tree-ish thing that a bunch of seeds for blew into my yard from this year. Fortunately, with the weed barrier, most are easy to pull, since they're only rooted in the mulch, so long as I pluck anything close to a plant very quickly.
My front yard was mostly bermudagrass. I'm on my third round of trying to turn it into real grass. So far, mostly successful, if I could get people to quit stepping on one spot just inside my fence. Just...OPEN THE GATE THE WHOLE WAY to walk through it and stay on the concrete (props to the mailman who holds the gate open with his foot while he deposits my mail and never leaves the concrete!). First person to "correct," my roommate! (Edit to note: once the grass is established, people stepping on it won't be such an issue. But, it's new sod that went down in late March. It needs some time before being trodden!)
