Zoysia Help
bjb817
13 years ago
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Comments (1)First thing I would do is get your soil PH tested. I am willing to bet your soil is very acidic. For Centipede to thrive and take over requires very acidic where just about nothing else can grow. To late now to tell you, but you way over watered your lawn thus helping the Centipede out. Zoysia is very drought resistant, and like Bermuda grass does not need a lot of water to thrive. On the other hand Centipede likes a lot of water, so you made conditions optimal for Centipede. So get a soil test, add lime if necessary, when spring arrives do something Centipede hates, add fertilizer when the yard is about 50% green and again 8 weeks later. Also learn how and when to water....See MoreTo zoysia or not to zoysia
Comments (7)OK lets get you on track first. Any Zoysia worth having is a hybrid only available from sod or plugs. Zenon is a hybrid similar to Emerald, and is extremely expensive. There are some common seeded Zoysia varieties available to the public. Two I know of are Zenith and Compadre. Any seeded Zoysia is extremely difficult to germinate and unless you have irrigation system is impossible. OK it is way too late in the year to seed any warm season turf in your area. For now sod, plugs, or sprigs are your only option right now. Now with that said if you want something really soft, that will stay green longer than Zoysia, there are a few varieties of common Bermuda grass available to you at about 1/3 the cost of Zoysia seeds. Not to mention a heck of a lot easier to germinate. But that would be a project for next year around the end of May or early June. Trick is you have to order now for next year....See MoreZoysia Identification help
Comments (2)Could be. When you planted the seed, did you water it lightly 3x per day for several weeks until you got about 80% germination? And does it seem to be uniformly the same grass? If so, then there's an excellent chance it is the zoysia seed you planted. Zoysia can be hard to identify because it comes in two different basic forms, coarse and fine bladed. The picture appears to be a coarse bladed grass but not as coarse as St Augustine or crabgrass. It looks thin for what I would expect at this stage of life. What has been your watering regimen over the summer? How often and for how long do you water?...See MoreHelp! Beginner lawn help zoysia sods.
Comments (12)Zoysia is drought tolerant. So is bermuda. Normally St Augustine does not tolerate drought. Now let me explain what that means to the lawn owner. If you stop watering and it does not rain, both zoysia and bermuda will brown out but come back to life when it rains again. Normally (meaning when you mow it below 4-5 inches(!)), St Augustine will die off unless it gets water every month. In some climates and soils, like Las Vegas, it will not survive a few weeks without water. HOWEVER, if you want any of those grasses to look green in the summer, you will need to water them about 1 inch per week when the temps are in the 90s. So if you were expecting to install zoysia in Richardson and never have to water it, that's incorrect. I have experimented with the idea that deep rooted grasses will tolerate heat and drought much better. I have a lawn in George West, Texas (on the east edge of the desert). I moved in back in September of 2011 and immediately stopped mowing the St Augustine. In addition I went from watering 3x per week to only watering the parts of the lawn that looked wilty. There is one part of that lawn under a tree on the east side of the house which has not been watered one time since 2011. The grass is 32 inches tall. It is in full shade 100% of the time due to the tree and house to the west. It survived the 2012 drought and the 2014 drought until the semi-weekly rains returned late last fall. So to make the blanket statement that St Augustine is not drought tolerant does not capture the entirety of the subject. I have further experimented with that lawn at different heights. I'm fairly convinced that 9-12 inches is a great height to maintain St Augustine. That height will allow you to water very minimally. The hardest part about that height is that no mower will mow at 12 inches. I use a string trimmer. If you had a small area, that would be no problem at all. Bringing all this back to you, your zoysia will recover if you do nothing but water it. Sure they did a poor job installing the sod, but they didn't kill it. My first choice for Richardson would be St Augustine. Second choice would be bermuda. A distant third would be zoysia. In fact I might try a prairie grass like hybrid buffalo or mix of wheatgrasses before I went with zoysia....See Morerunjbells
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