St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is a Day of Green
A Day of Celebration for Zoysia Green

A family of grasses native to many parts of the Orient, Zoysias were first introduced to the United States in the early 1900's.
In description, any of several strains of Zoysia sound like excellent all around lawn grasses. They grow slowly and close to the ground, thrive on a wide range of soils, have good shade tolerance, and produce such dense turf that weed invasion is resisted.
In past years Meyer and Emerald and some strains of Matrella have been the
most widely known and available Zoysias used in this country. They must be
propagated vegetatively and rooting and growth is slow. Solid sodding is
recommended, as is an underground irrigation system.
Zoysias grow slowly and require infrequent mowing, but they are so dense
that a good sharp mower with adequate power should be used and cutting
should be on a regular schedule. If "scalped" in mowing and subjected to other
unfavorable treatment, Zoysias are slow to recover.

Zenith Zoysia is the result of over 50 years of research searching for a Zoysia with good texture and turf quality that could be propagated from seed. Zenith is in the Japonica family as is Meyer and is similar to Meyer in texture and color. Planted shallow on a newly prepared seedbed and watered frequently. For Southern recommedations Zenith germinates readily producing a stand of seedlings in 10 to 14 days. Like all Zoysias, it grows and spreads slowly and therefore seeding rates of one to three pounds per thousand square feet are recommended.

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

Zenith From Seed

A family of grasses native to many parts of the Orient, Zoysiagrasses were first introduced to the United States more than sixty years ago. Zoysia grasses are maintained from the gulf shores to Chicago.

This dense growing plant until recently was only available for propagation as sod or the ever present plug - often seen in the Sunday Parade magazine. With the development of Zenith, the same quality or better than the standards of the last 50 years can be planted from seed.

Zoysiagrasses are the best adapted selection for the transition zone of the US running along a line from Baltimore to Cincinnati to St. Louis and West. To Infinity and Beyond

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...

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.