Bermuda - dead, dormant, or ???

[kreye87]

We are in a new construction home in North Georgia with Bermuda sod that is now exactly one year old. Sod began to have brown patches in the fall before it went dormant. We put pre-emergent down then. FF to now. The sod looks either dead or still dormant - however neighbor’s yards are green and look healthy. Three weeks ago we put down Scott’s weed and feed due to high clover content. Weeds are dead and we can see some green patches coming in, but still looks like you see here. We are clueless as to what to do now.

[MorpheusPA]

Dormant, from the looks. And not even that dormant, the green's there. First-year lawns (which yours is) can be quite slow to come back. Haste is unnecessary. Root storage of carbs isn't vast on a newly-installed lawn, so it's not going to risk coming back when it can be taken out by a late frost--even northern lawns don't risk it, and they're much more tolerant of cold weather (my KBG is slow-poking it this year, and it's older).

Give it some time, and when it does come back, you can feed it. Bermuda responds well to feeding monthly throughout the growing season. Allow bits to invade your beds, and you can use those to transplant into any holes you have. Water in well, feed well, and they should spread to fill holes easily.

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

Don't feed it until after you have mowed real grass, not just weeds, for the second time. The grass has to be fully awake for fertilizer to work.
What is your watering schedule? How often and for how long do you water?
Also, North Georgia??? Are you in Atlanta or not? We're not coming over; it's just helpful to know more specifically where you are.

[kreye87]

Thank you so much for the help! We are in north atlanta suburbs (canton/Woodstock). We make sure it gets an inch of water per week be it rain or sprinklers. In the last week I’ve been watering 30 minutes in the morning.

Here’s an updated pic

[kreye87]

And here’s one of our backyard that just looks so different. Granted we have a bigger weed issue we are tackling in the back, but it doesn’t look strange like the front.

[MorpheusPA]

The front looks like it's moved along just the tiniest bit.

I'm here in Pennsylvania, it's May 2nd, and the grass really isn't growing that much yet. It's been a chill late April.

I see no reason to panic at this point. Now, if it's still doing that in, say, two to three weeks...

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

We make sure it gets an inch of water per week be it rain or sprinklers. In the last week I’ve been watering 30 minutes in the morning.

You're watering wrong. That is exactly what bermuda looks like when it gets water every day. Switch immediately to deep and infrequent watering. Deep means one inch all at one time and not 1/7th inch every day. This time of year you can water it once per week. For any other grass you would want to wean it off of daily watering, but bermuda is tough and will hardly notice not getting it's daily drink. In a few weeks it should look great.