How to Do It Yourself for the Greenest Bermudagrass on Your Street!
Use the runners (stolons) that look like the picture above. These runners will be all over your sidewalk and driveway edges if you haven’t mowed your lawn for a week or two. Just go pull these out with the root included. If you don’t get the root it’s useless. You need those tiny little roots that are attached to these runners. Then go to a bare spot, stick a long screwdriver into the soil, and stick this runner with the root and a bit of leaf into the ground. Pat down the hole and in a few weeks that runner will spread across the bare spot. You need to use multiple runners to fill in bare spots quickly. Put down a little bit of the quick-release 10-10-10 or 13-13-13 fertilizer with it if you like just so it gets nutrients quickly.
You must also water these transplanted runners more so than regular grass. I don’t want to run my entire irrigation zone for a bare spot and risk overwatering my good grass areas which will cause shallow roots, algae, and other issues. Instead, I use a hose, timer, and adjustable spray head with multiple watering patterns. I like to set the timer to run for 3 minutes every 6 hours. Water like this for 7-10 days and the bare spot will be almost covered.
If you have a large area of bare spots then you need to transplant some Bermuda from other areas of your lawn. The best ProPlugger 5-IN-1 Lawn Tool and Garden Tool will help you transplant Bermuda grass plugs easily. It is very similar to laying new sod but without the cost!
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