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Enough depressing talk about leaves. It is time to plant not rake. I am about to plant part of my lawn and I have 2 questions.
1) Has anyone planted Zoysia from seed?
2) What problems have you had with Zoysia grass and is it a good idea?
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Well in the full sun in central AL you need something that is drought resistant or you will not be able to pay the water bill. You choices are limited. Most of the drought resistant strains go dormant in the winter.
In full sun I have 3 choices, bermuda, centipee or zoysia. I think zoysia may be the best.
I have centiped but this has not body like normal grass and it is not that drought resistant. I lost a lot a couple of years ago.
Many of the new Zoysia strains are finer blade than the earlier ones. I am not sure about the Zenith, which they are selling from seed.
The sod farms are not necessarily seeding.
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No Mark, I had no idea that growing grass was so difficult. In the west coast the grass was always green and anything seemed to grow, I though. Here anything that would grow there will not grow here and vise versa.
As I stated I seem to be left with grass that goes Dormant in the winter either St. Augustine, Centipee, Bermuda, Zoysia or Bahia.
Centipee look nice and feels OK but is slow to get moving in the spring, so the weeds take off and is not that drought resistant. I have a few acres of lawn and it is difficult to water the whole area.
Bahia I have in the pasture and is not really suitable for lawn.
Bermuda goes really brown in the winter and is high mow in growing season.
Zoysia can have nice turf and is low mow.
St. Augustine can not be grown from seed.
I am left with trying to grow zoysia for the new area of lawn.
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Well so they say, but I was looking through the fine print yesterday on one of the sites and they said that it would not do it to Centipee and Bahia as they also expand with rhisomes (are creapers).
Iike I said no one worried too much about grass up north as is was covered with snow 6 months of the year.
The Zoysia plugs - last year I ordered some Zoysia plugs. I spend $100. I cut the lawn and placed the plugs, took nearly a day then they all died. They sent me some more plugs in the fall which I left as sod, they have not spread yet and from yesterdays finding may not.
Recently I found I could get Zoysia sod locally. $75 dollars a pallet. But this years crop is sold out.
Which leaves seeding the lawn? For which I could use some advice.
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Chief;
The sections I planted have not exactly taken over the other areas of grass. If anything the centipee has invaded the area that I placed the Zoysia.
The variety of Zoysia sod I can get locally is a lot nicer than the plugs I bought.
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The Zoysia that I can get from the local sod farmer is much nicer and softer than the plugs. A friend has it planted in the yard. I am not sure what variety it is. Unfortunately he lost a lot of it a few years ago in the heat as I did my centipee.
I planted a soft bermuda near the house.
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