John here are my recommendations. Maintain current height for now until it goes dormant for winter rest. Then next spring with you see signs it is starting to turn green, scalp it down to 1 inch and bag all the debris. I will warn you it will look like crap with nothing but stems and twigs. As soon as you see it starting to recover and green up a bit after scalping, apply your first of 3 yearly fertilizer applications. Be sure to water the fertilizer in. Then maintain the lawn at 1-1/2 to 2 inches with a rotary mower with a good sharp blade. Zoysia is a very tough grass and hard on lawn mower blades so keep the blade sharp. Otherwise you will just tear the grass and it will look brown on the tips and spoil the color, not to mention open it up for pest and disease issues. If you use a reel mower maintain at 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches with sharp blades. Lastly fertilize only 3 times per season spaced 8 to 10 weeks apart. DO NOT over fertilize Zoysia. Good luck and don't forget to check in next year and let us know how it went.

1. Leave the shortened culms alone. Even though they won't grow, their leaves will provide energy to the plant to help grow new culms. 2. If you are lucky, the new culms will fill in within a year. 3. Fire the gardener.

What steps are you taking to achieve this? Normally I click Start then All programs. Select and right click on the program that needs a desktop icon and in the pop up menu hover over 'Send to...' and a side flyout appears. Click 'Create desktop icon' Done. Then I rename the new desktop icon if it is not exactly what I want.

The easiest way in Firefox and Yahoo! is to go to the site you want, re-size the window so you can see the Desktop, and then right-click, and hold and drag the icon in the address bar (the one to the left of the site address) onto the Desktop. However, I find this to be a less-than-desireable approach to frequently visited sites. Any site I visit daily is just bookmarked and put on my Bookmarks Toolbar across the top of my Firefox browser. That way I don't have any extra clicks getting to the Desktop to find a shortcut. I display them alphabetically, and I've shortened the names to 5-6 letters each so I have room for about 30 or so.