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

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I have just started to enjoy these calls, for the longest time our number was unpublished and unlisted due basically to an industry where calls at home were extremely unproductive and basically an invasion of my family time since I was working for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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