Wealth of Zoysia News Coming

Let me start to organize this information in a manner that is the easiest manner to our readers.It appears that there is a major difference in the way northern growers handle-maintain -propagate in contrast to the way southern growers handle-maintain-propagate and even a difference to western growers and growers from around the planet.
{Remember our goal is to take over the planet.}
The Advice and Direction that is applicable in the North would or could be disadvantageous in the South or West.
I think we all understand that but until now we have had to scour the resources to get to the best advice for our region.

Let us start this journey together!

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NEXT 5 WAYS FOR ZOYSIA TO TAKE OVER THE PLANET

Here we go the other 5 Ways to Take Over the Planet with Zoysia

1. Go to your local garden center and mix in some zoysia seed with the other seeds labeled grass
2. Only fertilize the portion of your yard that is covered with Zoysia use weed killer like weed-b-gone on the other grasses
3. After natural disasters like flooding, mudslides, wildfires, get out there with your Zoysia seed bags and plugs
4. Join our petition to convert the Commonwealth of Kentucky from the bluegrass state to Kentucky-"The Perfect Grass State"
5. Join our membership page to become a part of the conspiracy to cover the globe with Zoysia
   

If you have other suggestions please share them on the blog
Have you ever considered joining our conspiracy to cover the globe with Zoysia?

Friday's are a Lose Format Day in Zoysia Land USA

At least one day a week I am going to let the rise and fall of the Zoysia manifesto take a break, the Zoysia will not actually take a break obviously.
Officially Spring begins in about 20 days, what a thrill the daily snow fall turns into semi-daily then a few weeks later it is a weekly ice event. And then finally, just like it started back at the end of growing season the Zoysia Resting season will covert to the Zoysia Growing Season. I am working on a new calendar and looking for suggestions so make sure you either make suggestions now or watch for the surveys

My Favorite 1 of 5 Plug Tricks

When you live in a plug only part of the country, like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland ... you live in the plug only, due to limited sunlight we have a limited growing season. Distributing plugs around your yard can become expensive and given the size of you yard those plug can easily get lost or loss a battle with your lawn mower.
1. Here is what I have done, take a large plug, shovel circle size of your current Zoysia, move this large plug to it's new home then roto-till the current spot where you don't have Zoysia growing, then plant winter wheat where you just removed the large plug from, winter wheat will grow during the down season for Zoysia and into the next growing season, summer then it will die off with mowing. It will also keep the weeds away,and more importantly wouldn't compete with next years Zoysia growth. This works in OH

History and Varieties of ZOYSIA Grasses Part 1

History and Varieties of Zoysia Grasses

History

Zoysia is a genus of eight species of creeping grasses native to southeastern and eastern Asia (north to China and Japan) and Australasia. These species, commonly called Zoysia or Zoysiagrass or even Zoysialovers.com , are found in coastal areas or grasslands. The genus is named after the Austrian botanist Karl von Zois. Here is the biological breakdown from Kingdom to Genus

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Zoysia Wild.

This genus was first introduced to the United Sates in the early 1900's .

Those eight species were:

1. Zoysia japonica

2. Zoysia macrantha

3. Zoysia macrostachya

4. Zoysia Natrella (syn. Z. tenuifolia)

5. Zoysia minima

6. Zoysia pauciflora

7. Zoysia pungens

8. Zoysia seslerioides

9. Zoysia sinica

The 2002 National Zoysiagrass test has 20 entries that they are evaluating and I have seen reports of at least one that has been in use for at least 10 years and is not included in this testing. (That being BK-7) Having 20 entries does not mean that you can choose amongst the 20 for your yard or greens, just currently 8 of these listed are available for commercial use. The really great news for Zoysialovers.com is that these fine growers and suppliers are working diligently to bring all of us the very best and most profitable Zoysia to market.

Those 8 varieties, that are commercially available are: Meyer, Emerald, Himeno, Zenith, Compadre (Companion), GN-Z, Zorro, and Chinese.

I regret to inform you that this "National Test" lacks the Great State of Ohio and Indiana that would make the people in some states like Ohio and Indiana benefit from the fullness of all their massive research.