How do you sow bermuda?

How do you sow bermuda?

COASTAL bermuda is not planted from seed. Root sections called stolons are planted by one of the following methods. 1. a specialized planter which drops the stolons, usually AFIK fed by hand into some sort of drop tube into a furrow opened with discs set in a V, then the stolons are covered with a press wheel or wheels. This is done in smooth plowed ground.

2. Ground is plowed and disked smooth. Stolons are scattered by pitchfork or maybe a manure spreader, then lightly disked to cover the stolons.

3. for a very small area they can be set out by hand.

All of these methods work better if there is a nice rain immediately after planting.

Common Bermuda and improved versions like Cheyenne are planted from seed. The seed is very small and expensive per pound, but a pound goes a long way. I don't know the seeding rates. Ground is prepared as before. Seed is broadcast from a spinner type spreader. It's best to use a small tractor to do this. Seeds are not usually covered. Using a drag harrow may cover the seed too deep. A Brillion cultipacker with a seed box is probably ideal. Again, things go much better if there is a nice rain afterward that wets the soil but is not so much that it causes erosion.

Common Bermuda, after being established is there more or less permanetly. Coastal can be plowed up and made to go away.

KEH

(quoted from post at 16:49:17 03/01/11) How do you sow bermuda?

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There are several species of Bermuda(Common & Giant) that can and have been sowed in my area. It requires a good seed bed and most people use a Brillion seeder that has packers to firm,smooth soil. I've also seen it slung out and harrowed very lightly.

keh is correct in that Coastal Bermuda must be sprigged although I've witnessed Coastal Bermuda coming up in places where I've fed Coastal hay

The ground here in western Arkansas (Ouachita Mountains) is rocky, and newly cleared ground is especially hard to disc, making a seed bed a real pain to prepare. I was curious if others have used my method of mixing a little seed in with the cow feed. I let the cows plant it for me, they do a real good job depositing ready made 'seed beds' full of nutrient. I'm using common bermuda, and when I run it thru the cows I use with hull, when I do broadcast I use the UNhulled. Since it's root propogating, it spreads pretty well on its own, but even better if you disturb it after roots developed. After 4 years of this method, I'm convinced it's better bang for the buck, at least in our ground

Edited to correct using UNhulled when broadcasting, hulled when fed to the cows. Have any of you tried this method? If so, any other type seeds, and what were the results?