Bermuda vs Fescue: Which is better? 

I have Bermuda, my neighbor has fescue. He works on his lawn a lot yet still has patches of bare spots and weeds, much more weeds than I have. Neighbors compliment my lawn. Yes, it’s brown in winter but so are the trees. I over seeded with winter rye once. It looked very nice. I may do that again this year. We’ll see.

I’m in southern Kansas here and contemplating switching my lawn to Bermuda from fescue. Our summers are getting hotter and more humid and the tidy close cut Bermuda offers is really intriguing.

I am in Brentwood TN and have an 80% Bermuda lawn. I like the look of thick fescue much better but it's going to be much easier to go full Bermuda. I can also spot weeds much easier. I have a sprinkler system and won't use as much water with Bermuda which is nice. Bermuda also does well at shorter lengths, so I can give my lawn a nice golf fairway look. To kill off the Bermuda and go full fescue would be one hell of a project and I don't feel like sinking thousands of dollars into it right now....maybe someday.

This is helpful, thank you!

The Bermuda extensions you see crawling onto your flower beds are called Stolons. (Stolons grow above the ground) Rhizomes grow, laterally under ground.

My tall fescue turnt brown looks kinda dormancy not sure but it’s about 95 degrees here in California is tall fescue a all season grass or just cool season?

Also you can take a plug from your bermuda lawn and install it somewhere else and let it spread! Bermuda is a neat grass type..... its almost like a weed lol

ur bermuda looks good man. is that 419

Pros and cons to all types for sure. 👍🏼 good convo.

I have fescue. I hate it.

I live in NC, so I'm kinda in that transition zone, too. Until this year, I honestly didn't know anyone in the area that even had Bermuda. No one in my neighborhood, that I know of has it. But a friend of mine has purchased a new house this year and bermuda grass was installed in their yard. She's somewhat of a perfectionist so it will be interesting to see her reaction when it goes dormant. Around here, fescue stay green pretty much year round although it will tend to go dormant during the summer. And you are right about mowing and maintenance of fescue. Crazily, I've lived here the majority of my life and really only now learning about maintaining a fescue lawn. Working on getting the yard back into shape as I'm planning to move back to my hometown in a few years.

That whole deal is a real dilemma for a transitional zone like Nashville. I subscribed and have a question for you....for Tennessee and North Carolina, it tends to be hilly - which means erosion can be a serious concern. Which of the two grasses will do a better job with erosion, tall fescue or bermuda??

Great information ℹ️ so to me it really depends on how much sun the area gets and how we maintain it so I believe fascue has a shade tolerance.

YES!!! SoCal “desert” grower here and you NAILED IT. I absolutely LOVE Bermuda and you’re spot on with all of your points.

This is interesting. I live in North Carolina (RDU) area. My newly built neighborhood seeded the lawns with Bermuda grass. I wanted no part of that weed grass, so I killed it off and seeded my lawn with tall fescue. My lawn looks so much better than my neighbors. Plus my next door neighbor is constantly spraying his yard with weed killer. I love doing yard work, so in the fall, I've seeded my lawn with perennial rye grass seeds. So yes, I'm cutting grass year round.

This is accurate, grew up in the transition zone, house a grew up in Bermuda, house I own now tall fescue. Bermuda comes back every year with zero anything, no fertilizer, no aeration ect. Fescue is all about how you treat it here. Looked like garbage the first summer I moved in, now I've started fertilizing and watering, and de-thatching, and scarifying, but plot twist. I'm going to try to be the first person to overseed Bermuda with tall fescue, I don't care what happens. The transition zone is a land of where you can't plant any breed of grass, but can also plant any grass you want according to others, zero youtube video's out there about it ima try

I guarantee you your soil pH is not good. So it’s hard to do a distinguish Between what looks good and what looks bad because you’re the muta grass doesn’t look all that great to me just constructive criticism it can be better you can do better

I live in Oklahoma and I have Bermuda and I killed all of it 😀.. I’m goin long fescue/ 10% KBG and the runners will help it.. I’ll give u results soon… I can’t wait to mow it’s been 3 weeks to long.. 🤙

ANybody who grows Bermuda on purpose is not fully human. There should be laws!

Thank you for the information. My lawn company wanted to over seed with fescue and I told them no. Great video!

I love to mow so Fescue works well for me. I am strange that way due to the love I have for yard work. I love getting those patchy spots developed; really rewarding at the end. I dig the Bermuda look as well though.

Is this just because of the place u guys live I live in california and my tall is that bad but I lm getting weeds I bought some Bermuda but now I’m not sure I want to overawed with it

I am a fan to fescue grass because it's almost like native to Georgia... It's everywhere even on the side of the roads.. but one type of grass sir that u didn't bring up is Winter Rye grass.... Can I pls hear ur options on Winter Rye and how a person should spread that in there yard around September or October?? Thanks

Awesome video man makes a lot of sense. 🤙

This man is on point with his thoughts on fescue. We had a fescue lawn in Virginia and from April to November, I had to cut it once a week just to keep it in control. Now that we’ve moved to Ga, we are getting Bermuda

Are there different types of Bermuda seed? What should I look for and which should I stay away from? Thank you.

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