Question about Zoysia grass.................................anyone have them?
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It's the thickest, softest barefoot grass you can have. It's like a carpet. But it doesn't green up until it gets to be 80 degrees. Good thing is it requires very little watering in the summer. I love it.
when does it start getting brown?
when is it completely brown?
How quickly did it spread?
which state are you in?
do you have any pictures you could share please?
when does it start getting brown?
when is it completely brown?
How quickly did it spread?
which state are you in?
do you have any pictures you could share please?
I don't have any pictures, but in the Kansas City area, it would go dormant starting in early October. And it turns a light tan color, not brown. And it spread rather slowly, but it will spread to your neighbor's yard. Thats how we got it. Our neighbor's zoysia spread into our yard up to our driveway. I liked it, so I kept taking plugs and planting them on the other side of our driveway. I'd say it took 5 years to completely take over the rest of the lawn.
when does it start getting brown?
when is it completely brown?
How quickly did it spread?
which state are you in?
do you have any pictures you could share please?
I imagine it would vary depending on your climate, but mine would start browning in maybe October-November or so. It would stay brown until May-June. I'm in Nebraska.
I put in strips of it off my in-laws' yard. They would cut out strips by the sidewalk and I'd just transplant it. Over the course of 4-5 years it had spread out a decent amount, but it wasn't immediate.
I've since moved. I'm a small-town pastor, but one of my congregants in town has a yard full of it. I'm probably going to get some from here to put in the parsonage and church lawns (assuming the board agrees to it, as not everyone likes it). It's light-brown right now. I'll see if I can snap a pic for you...and then maybe in a couple months when it greens up.
My yard is about 90% centipede, but I have a small patch of compadre zoysia that I started about 4 years ago. It has spread fairly slowly for me (compared to centipede). Compared to southern grasses like centipede and st Augustine, it's fairly fine textured and soft. It does turn a brighter shade of golden tan during the winter though, which looks a little odd compared to the rest of the yard which is a darker tan.
The most likely reason there are waves and slopes is probably because it was grown from seed vs. established from sod.
NG Turf, a sod farm in northern Georgia, posted an article Sod or Seed that states one of the benefits from sodding your lawn vs seeding is sod produces a more even growth. "Sod farms roll their fields and carefully monitor soil conditions to produce a beautifully even product."
The best yards in my neighborhood are zoysia. Just have to make sure you get the right type of zoysia for your yard (light or shade). I"m getting quotes on getting the zoysia sod now. It is a warm season grass that is brown in the winter as is bermuda but when it greens back up in the spring it's beautiful. It's also what the golf courses here all use.
It's thick and helps to squeeze out weeds quite well also.
Plugs can take a couple of yrs to fill in and if you're doing a whole lawn, sodding is really the way to go.
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