Setting your Bermuda grass lawncare budget

You want the cheapest option with best results. You’re going to drop a lot of money on your lawn (about $500 per year) but it will look beautiful as a result. Your house is expensive and think of your lawn as a growing extension of it. Like your hair is an extension of you. You must maintain it or the whole thing looks bad. If you spent $0 on your lawn your whole house will look bad. If you spent $0 on your hair you will look bad.

DO spend money on: #

• Water. Your biggest expense is going to be gallons and gallons of water. Bermuda grass is very drought-friendly needing 8-10 hours of sunlight a day but it also needs water. It does not do well in shade areas like under trees and light watering. To have a lush thick green lawn you still need to water it regularly in the Texas heat or it will never grow in right. A water-starved lawn will be brown and patchy full of weeds.
  
• The fertilizer and chemicals I will teach you about below should add up to about $500 a year for a 4500 sq ft lawn (average suburban Texas home lawn size). Use this website to get a ballpark estimate of the size of your lawn: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/area_finder.php. Expect to pay more or less based on this. In my guide, you will see the same product come up through several months but this is just a visual and you are still using the bag you bought earlier in the season in most cases. You are not buying products constantly, just applying what your grass need when you need to and keeping within your budget.
  
• It is okay to pay for a lawn service to mow your grass, pull weeds, and blow your driveway and sidewalks. This needs to be done every 2 weeks for healthy Bermuda grass with no to little weeds. If you have time and enjoy cutting grass, then by all means do it yourself as well and save a lot of money this way.

DO NOT waste money on: #

• Paying TruGreen or a lawn service for this. You can do it yourself and for cheaper. TruGreen will cost you $900 a year and won’t get as good results. They just spray nitrogen mostly around 8-10 times a year on a random interval which does not give you lasting results. You’ll get some green color and that’s about it.
  
• Going to Home Depot or Lowes to buy random things and spread at random times. You are wasting your money. All the stuff you see there is aimed at consumers for the largest population of users and is made to be idiot-proof, which also means barely any results. They are taking your money and you’re getting little to no lasting results. Buy the stuff below and apply at the times specified and you will have a golf course like healthy lawn year-round.