Zoysia Grass end of growing season update
10 February 2010I took pictures of the area where I planted the grass to show what transpired since I planted it. The answer is, not much! I did not get much if any distribution this year, I am hoping it will spread out this spring.
Here are the pics so you can see for yourself. I really did not like the color of the grass when it started turning cold but if it looks good in the spring and summer and keeps the weeds out like they say then I guess I can deal with the color during the cold months.
You can see the three patches of Zoysia in this picture. The first is in the lower left corner and then the other two are located on each side of the tree in the middle of the section of grass.
Here is a close-up shot
These pictures were taken in late October I think. I will update again this spring.
7 Responses to “Zoysia Grass end of growing season update”
April 5th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Hi Mark,
Thanks for publishing your piece and February update – any chance you can publish an April update?
I planted 2 sheets this weekend, and have roughly 4 to go. I live in NJ, and was suprised at how brown my grass was (I know, big lettered warnings) – I figured living in a nearby state, my grass would be greener. anyway, I was disappointed at the progress of your grass – I’m hoping it looks more like it’s thriving.
I have yet to see any scoring on the bottom of my sheets, and as with other posters, i could not get 150 plugs – i could get either around 60, or 6,000 (strands)
thanks for your willingness to inform!
April 6th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I’ll take some pictures toward the end of the month and post them. We are just starting to get some warm weather here. I think I remember reading that it won’t green up until the ground temp hits 55 degrees.
I did poke around in there last week and it looked like there was new green sprigs coming up from the ground. I think the old stuff dies off each year and new grass grows, unlike say kentucky bluegrass that just greens back up in the spring.
April 14th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Hi Mark,
I live in Illinois, so was very interested to see a posting from a fellow midwesterner. My husband and I are thinking about Zoysia, and are interested in your progress with it. We’ve got a problem area underneath our Magnolia tree and we’re hoping Zoysia can solve the issue. Thanks for the posting on Dave’s Garden and the blog…so far very helpful!
April 24th, 2010 at 1:52 am
I appreciate your updates and I’m looking forward to your temps reaching the necessary 55 to see some follow up pics. I live in CA so I think my only concern is the poor plugs cooking in the ground. Nothing can be worse than what I currently have so I think I’m going to take a stab at zoysia.
Thanks again for taking the time to put this together…
April 27th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Mark,
I planted over a thousand plugs in my yard back in 2007. I live in Maryland and the plugs I received looked just like yours maybe a bit browner. I followed the directions planting them watering. I was very upset when after the 21 days of watering all the plugs just seemed to die, and weeds sprouted up in their places. The next spring 2008 I noticed that maybe 20 plugs survived and were growing spreading out little runners. I did notice that the weeds seemed to be attacking the little plugs anywhere there was a plug a bunch of weed surrounded it. Last year 2009 I noticed a lot more spots of zoysia growing plug that I had previously written off as dead and gone. I noticed something else that if there were two plugs in close proximity the runners would grow towards each other and not in any other direction. If there was a plug out all along it was sending out a few runners in all directions. This spring I have huge patches popping up a least a foot in diameter. That’s huge for me! Sadly I am moving this summer I was hoping to have a lush lawn for resale when I plant back in 2007. At least someone will get to enjoy it.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
thanks for your story. I think it may be the same with me. All of my patches are showing new growth but not spreading much. I will probably plug some of them this year and spread them around to try to get more coverage, but I think this is going to take awhile. I am not crazy about the color either when the grass is dormant compared to the other varieties. I will be taking pics this soming weekend and posting to show what they look like.
July 27th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Trust me> If the blogger had planted small plugs his entire lawn would have been filled in.