Can you call the original installer? I'm just wondering if he still lives in your town. There are people who wander around the country doing tasks like this where nobody will be wiser until they have moved away.

When you watered regularly, did you water 3x per day for 3 weeks? Or were you on some other "regular" watering schedule? If you did not water 3x per day, then that was the initial problem.

Where do you live? The zone doesn't mean anything.

My 2 cents... The great thing about Zenith Zoysia is that it grows slooooooowly!!! The curse of Zenith Zoysia is that it grows slooooooowly!!!

Try to not love the lawn to death with fertilizer and, as always, the less chemical toppings the better for us all. My experience with ZZ tells me that it would rather be starved than fed. I only used real fertilizer one time on part of the sod and the sod didn't seem to like it. Now, I only occasionally use corn gluten meal and used coffee grounds, but 99% of the time God takes care of the lawn. Also, ZZ is supposed to be âÂÂa little shade tolerantâ , but it still prefers sun, so too much shade may be a deal breaker. Just my 2 cents.

I have assorted plots of ZZ on my property: North side, West side and South side- some from seed, some from plugs and some from sod. I first seeded ZZ in 2002. Initially, it looked like a bust until little by little over years the ZZ established as the alpha grass, but it took a few YEARS!!! -all this without fertilizer other than the random tossing of used coffee grounds. Note: I mowed it high just like my fescue and did NOT bag the clippings most of the time and that doesnâÂÂt seem to be a problem. I am making the change to cutting it lower because the âÂÂexpertsâ suggest that I do, but IâÂÂm not convinced that is ideal and I feel the only benefit of cutting low *may* be related to overly fungus prone locations where low cutting might allow better drying and air circulation. Just my 2 cents.

This post was edited by louvox50 on Sun, Oct 26, 14 at 9:06