Northern Zenith Zoysia Grass

Until recently the most widely used "warm season grasses" were only available as sod. Now One Seed Company produces zoysia grasses that is available as sod and seed.

Most home buyers focus on the ‘house’ itself. The finished (sodded) look in the front of the house is all that may be required by lenders. Many builders seed the back and side yards with quick-germinating, cheap, temporary grasses. These grasses give a quick green cover, but this is only a temporary condition. Why waste your time and money start with the best and stick to it.

The Solution
Finish your back yard with the same turfgrass variety, care and attention that went into the front yard. A completed ‘Lifetime Backyard Lawn’ will do a number of things:

* Control Erosion - Prevent the back yard from washing into your front yard, the neighbor's yard and nearby creeks or streams.
* Eliminate or at least minimize muddy conditions and reduce mud being tracked into the house by kids and pets (what use is a back yard if you and your family cannot enjoy it for play, pets and cookouts)
* Give the landscape a finished look. – Bring the back yard landscape up to front yard standards.
* Completed lawns are cheaper to maintain.
* Simplifies lawn care because having the same grass in the front and back lawn allows for the implementation of a single lawn care maintenance program.

Now - having the same warm season grass in the front and back yard landscape
is both practical and most importantly economical!

Super-Sod is the first turfgrass sod production company to produce for its customers grasses that are available as both sod and seed. Seeding can be less expensive than sodding as part of the solution to a completed and affordable landscape.

Combinations of Super-Sod - Sod and Seed - available today include the following:

* Zenith® Zoysiagrass sod grass and Zenith® Zoysia grass seed

Lawn Experts Comith Part 2

The "Lawn Experts" Comith Well I was not at home dog gone it. They did leave a report and at first I was really disappointed, then the inevitable phone call from the salesman. I didn't think the report through as well as I should have but, take a moment and learn from it yourself... Let's dissect the report shall we... under Grass types Tall Fescue and Zoysia no surprises here, under Turf Density Thin and Bare Spots Shade Front and Back both marked for Light...Thatch 1"-2" Soil type Fair as apposed to Sandy Loam it just keeps getting better and better.our Mowing is Too Short and I have Dull Blades That we underwatering because we have Drought Stress He took time to indicate that we have Chickweed Not Clover and Dandelion but not Thistle. That we have Spotted Spurge That we have crabgrass and Grubs but no Moles/Voles or Moss. Here's the thing that we have than this report makes no mention of SNOW ... At least an inch of SNOW sitting over the yard and the Bare Spots well only if they were referring to where there wasn't any snow like our concrete driveway, and the Thatch they referred to in this report 1"-2" somehow they got confused and thought that meant SNOW. Our soil condition fair you have got to be kidding me they just guessed based on what the general community is like our yard was a fill in from a gravel pit dig two inches below the SNOW and you find SAND! My Mowing Too Short maybe they could determine that by kicking some of the snow away (a great bloy to distress the non-Zoysia stuff...remember not to aid the enemy) Drought Stress give me a break, you want Drought Stress go to the Carolina's or Georgia. The Clover mixed in with the Zoysia is embarrassing never a mention probable too much SNOW to see it! Dandelions under snow in their dreams! Crabgrass a guess at best Grubs in our neighborhood if you don't have MOLES you don't have grubs period. One thing about a yard inspection is that when there is snow on the ground you leave footprints as to where you have or in this case haven't been. There were footprints cutting the corner of the yard about twelve steps to get to the driveway where they actually stepped in the yard. They did NOTHING oh I shouldn't say NOTHING ... LYING REALLY IS NOT THE SAME AS NOTHING.
Next week the phone conversation...

How to deal with the "lawn expert" calls i.e. sales people

How to deal with the "lawn expert" calls i.e. sales people

I have just started to enjoy these calls, for the longest time our number was unpublished and unlisted due basically to an industry where calls at home were extremely unproductive and basically an invasion of my family time since I was working for an employer that didn't allow paper to leave the office, home calls were simply a waste of time. Here is how the call goes...
Hello Mister Keeeger?
Well that is almost close (you got the Mister right)...
Asking for the correct pronunciation -Pronunciation provided
We would like to provide you a free lawn care evaluation We would come out and provide you this information and just leave at or on your front door without any obligation.
OK
I just need to confirm some information....what color is your house?
Then they go into a little clarification of what they hope will be a selling point
"Mister Keeeger what is your biggest concern with your lawn? " {and you noticed it correctly the pronunciation was the same when they started the call} So now I am mildly annoyed so I counter attack...with my own clarification business it goes like this...
"What do you mean concern?"
"Do you like have problems with weeds? or insects or grubs? (last time I checked a grub was an insect but I let this slide)
"What would you change or improve about your lawn if you could?"
"I wish the whole yard was brown now"
"Did you say brown?"
"Yes brown"
{So actually I meant a light yellow brown...as I am writing this in January in Ohio we are in the dormant phase}
OK Mister Keeeeger, they will be out to leave your free estimate soon here, if you have any question you can call our 800 number ...-...-.... or contact your local Sxxxxt'x dealer"
"OK good bye"
I loved the I want more brown grass part it just confused the heck out of this sales type. I really can't wait for the estimator sales person to visit later this month... I have a plan just waiting for them... next week and depending on their arrival.


"Boy you do have quite a bit of tan grass" "What kind of grass is that?"
"Sure do would you like to see pictures"
I just hope that there isn't snow on the ground hiding it all if there is I think I will hide and pretend that I'm not at home.

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

Zoysia Manifesto

Zoysia Lovers Creed

Promise Yourself to Be So Strong That No weeds can Grow Amongst Your Zoysia Yard

To Talk Health, Happiness, and the Blessings of Zoysia to Everyone You Meet

To Wear a Cheerful Continence at All Times and Give Every Living Person You Meet
a Plug of Your Emerald Zoysia Grass

To Cheerfully Mix Zoysia seed into any non-Zoysia seed you may come across

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

Dealing With Mixture of Zoysia and other stuff

If you are like me you have a yard mixed with Zoysia and other non-Zoysia stuff. It occurred to me while reflecting on the "lawn care" sales folks that when I put down plant food that I only want to put it down on the Zoysia, otherwise it is like providing aid and comfort to the enemy. I certainly don't want to do that. I want the non-Zoysia stuff to struggle off and get crowded out even if it does take sometime to do that, feeding it would certainly make it stronger and more of a challenge for the Zoysia to win the battle of the lawn. One of my neighbor feed the her entire yard and the Zoysia in one area has actually gotten smaller over the years, the other Zoysia areas are denser than mine, but I cannot determine any growth or spreading. I really have a challenge with the entire lawn-care industry, they feed so it grows more and you spend more time either cutting or more money paying someone else to cut your grass. What a nice form of planned obsolescence perpetual income for them and there lawn mowing compodres. Similar to the Plumbers Association supplying silver maples trees (which are sewage tile invasive trees) to the home builders as they are beginning to landscape the suburbs of the 50's, 60's and 70's. They planned ahead for the day when the building boom might slow down and they would need work cleaning out sewage drains and it was very successful.
As Zoysia Lovers we too can plan ahead and look forward to the day when all our grass grows out and not up and driving the lawn mowing industry to it's knees and thus keeping more of our money in our pockets where it belongs or at the very least spending less of our time cutting the grass or both saving money and spending less time cutting. Really sounds and is a win win situation for the Zoysia Lover in all of us.