When should I put down fertilizer? What type?

Following for St. Aug.

I need to put some out in the back. I’m just going to water it in with my sprinkler so I don’t burn my turf. Getting the weather to cooperate around here is dicey. The other day I was top dressing my front yard, it was 95 degrees, 0% chance of rain on two of my weather apps, and it dumped 2” of hard driving rain around 3 P.M. Look like a tropical storm hit this place. It’s awful hot and humid though the past month. Not sure what I would tell you about newly established bermuda grass. Maybe spread some of that fertilizer made for newly established yards. Seems like the labels always say good for not burning your new grass up. The higher the nitrogen the hotter that fertilizer is. Long as you can get water to it though I'd think you would be fine.

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So this is a fertilizer but won’t stress the sprayed Bermuda? We recently got a little rain but nothing significant. Still have a few weeds that I missed while using my backpack sprayer, but will spray again using a spray boom when Bermuda is healthier. I know that I won’t have a 100% Bermuda lawn this year but just trying to get ahead for next year before I put pre emerge and do landscaping next spring.

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Has your bermuda recovered and is it growing? If so then I would think so, but to be safe I would use a less fertilizer setting on your spreader and water it in good.

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Just sprayed my yard with Celsius and Target 6 Plus. All grass and weeds except Bermuda are dead and brown. Should I put down fertilizer now or wait until a rain is near? Bermuda is not well established so I want it to branch out. Should I put a triple 13 or T-Nex?

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Fertilizer won’t be effective unless watered in so wait until before a rain event or water it in with sprinklers soon after application. You can lose some nitrogen to the atmosphere from volatilization if you wait too long to water it in. When did you last apply fertilizer, if not within the past few months you can apply now.

Use any high nitrogen lawn fertilization, 33-x-x for example, you choose at 1 lb N per 1000 sq ft per application. A good lawn fertilizer will have a percentage of the nitrogen that is fast release, with the balance coated with sulfur or a polymer to release the nitrogen over 2 to 3 months. Triple 13 garden fertilizer releases all the nitrogen quickly leaving no residual to release over time. Not a preferred lawn fertilizer.

Good information in the stickied lawn thread at the top of the page.