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Bermuda Grass care calendar for zone 8

Warm winter with rare freezes, long hot summer. Warm-season grasses (bermuda, zoysia, centipede, bahia, St. Augustine) dominate; tall fescue persists in shade with irrigation. Lawns go dormant November–March and green up by April. Pre-emergent crabgrass control is the spring priority.

Bermuda is the workhorse warm-season lawn of the South: heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant, traffic-tolerant, and aggressively self-repairing via both stolons and rhizomes. Hybrid bermudas (Tifway 419, TifTuf) require sodding and look like a putting green; common bermuda can be seeded and looks closer to a typical Southern lawn.