Anyone ever try Amazoy Zoysia grass?

RUGERGUNZ

I need to seed my lawn soon, it is just gravel now, but needs loam. My GF father told me about this stuff, sounds great. Does anyone have any experience with it?

http://www1.zoysiafarms.com/



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nunn

Zero experience with it, but consider one of its main selling points. It requires little water and little mowing. That tells me it will grow very slowly and cover very slowly.

Nobody around here has a zoysia lawn. I don't remember ever hearing Neil Sperry talk about it on the radio. He recommends either common Bermuda or St. Augustine for lawns in NE Texas.

I have seen the full-page ads for zoysia plugs. Makes it look real easy. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Full-page ads for grass, fast-growing trees and the like are usually from companies in the north, and I am in Texas, so I pay little attention to them.

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BOBBYWINS

I tried some about five or six years ago on a small area of my lawn just to see how it would do.I'm in Central Texas,so it gets plenty hot here in the the summer time.I spread the plugs out farther than they instructed,but what the heck,I had a decent stand of bermuda anyway.I watered and everything else they recommended for that first year and then let it go.

I looked at it the other day and all I can find is bermuda.(which does very well in this part of the country,BTW.[;)])

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grdad45

IMHO, don't waste your money. I'm in SW Arkansas and tried the zoysia plugs on a small area of my yard. I tilled in some compost and plugged it according to the instructions, watered and weeded it for about three months. Surprise! It died anyway. One good thing is that the centipede around it loved the rich soil I created and has covered the spot very nicely.[:)]

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beantole

Yes, I planted it everywhere in Illinois 15 years ago. I planted little
one inch square plugs as directed at first but then realized it would take 3 days to plant it so I began using 6-8 inch squares of it. I placed them about 6-8 feet apart. I watered them regularly the first year. Here is what happens: You won't notice much for 3-4 years and then you will see it spreading very slowly. At the end of 10 years It was taking over my yard and beautiful!! Strong! Thick! Drought resistant. Kills other weeds too. We then moved to the country and left ourr beautiful zoysia (sp?) grass behind. My neighbor here has a large patch that is beautiful. If you can stick out the 10 years it takes to spread it is great grass!!

Bruce

mrbruce

I spent the money for it at two different places, and it never took as good as they said it would ;O(

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n/a

I would go with rolled SOD, instant lawn..

JamesRK

I struggled with it for about three years and spent the family fortune on it. I have a few small patches that haven't been choked out yet. If you do it right and get lucky, it's probably a good grass, but I didn't have much luck with it.

bigtire

It just gave me a headache.[:D]

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Pinhead

I planted zoysia grass plugs in my back yard several years ago because in the heavy clay soil that I had regular grass would not grow. It took 2 or 3 years for it to really get going but I now have a great back yard now. The stuff is still spreading. It is tough as nails(I park my truck on it all the time and it doesn't phase it), it is very drought resistant, cold weather doesn't bother it, and best of all you don't have to mow it very often(two or three times a year is plenty). The local soccor association planted it on there fields because regular grass would not stand up to the wear of playing several games a week on it. My wife likes it because it is so thick that it feels like you are walking on a thick carpet. I love the stuff.

65gto389

No. But I hear good things.









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He Dog

Have both plugged it and sodded it some years back. In the right climates it does extremely well, even against that nasty Bermuda. It does brown in the winter and in some of the up-scale neighborhoods they sprayed it green. A little slower than Bermuda to get established (but does not have roots and runners 8 feet in the ground like Bermuda). When established it tends to choke weeks and volunteer grasses. I liked it, but suggest if you are going to plug it, use 12"x12" plugs to get it established faster.

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quote:Originally posted by bigtire
It just gave me a headache.[:D]

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