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Well we are donating our 90 Honda Accord to St Vincent de Paul Friday, sad to see it go, 19 yrs of service but it is time to say good bye!

Zoysia Lovers

Zoysia Lovers

I was up very early to walk in an attempt to miss the rain that did not materialize like predicted...go figure

Some like it HOT HOT HOT
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headed out to the local meijers for a few cases of jelly for the food pantry

Well 864 weeks of daily exercise, for the newbies that means walking, running, swimming or bicycling for an hour... nice streak if I do say so my self yeah!

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Well the average lowest temp for a July in this part of Ohio are about to go into the books... all the hot air apparently is in our nations capital although there was a lot going on in NE Ohio yesterday... Hey my Zoysia doesn't mind it!

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Just some personal zoysia reflection

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.

Spread Some Grandulated Lime

This week I spread some granulated Lime on the areas where I have Zoysia growing. This will be an interesting adventure to see just how much of a difference this will make. We have had several days of rain this week in variating amounts, so it will have certainly made its way down into the soil. I am debating with myself as too when to make the next application. The price is right about $5.00 for 40#s and out of the 40# I still have at least &#s left. I needed to hand broadcast the lime as the power source ran out about half way through the project. So the amount of the application will not be scientific but a visual thing. Anyone else out there ever use Lime on their Zoysia? Drop me a line and let me know how it went.

Red Fox Visits Zoysia Grass in Beavercreek

Red Fox chooses Zoysia Grass in Beavercreek!
Having an infinite number of Lawns This Fox knows
just what he likes and camps out here sunning and
playing and scratching his back. If the Foxes Love
Zoysia -- You Will Too Join Us in the Crusade to Aide
Zoysia in the taking over Our Planet Sign up today
Plant some Today!

Our Neighbor Feeds the Enemy

Our neighbor pays out the ying yang to fertilize and feed the enemy Here are the results green weeds surrounding the tan Zoysia... You know we will win, it is just prolonging the inevitable.

Moving of the ZOYSIA Plugs

The Moving of the Plugs

The long anticipated moving of the zoysia plugs has begun here in Beavercreek, Ohio. I watch and study season to season to determine the best place to move last years massive growth to so that the coming season will bring even closer those not tan with those areas tan. Given this is Ohio ... amazoy is the zoysia that has the most staying power.
I moved the first dozen, this afternoon, they were each about the shovel head square, no need to rush I will pick up the shovel again on Tuesday and move a dozen more...and then again on Wednesday. (or about 36 plugs in all and who knows maybe one for a neighbor or two) Thursday we have rain on it's way so the end of the 'Moving of the Plugs' will conclude. Almost seems like the 12 Days of Christmas with all the excitement.

The Green will Return

It shall return now is the time to move those plugs in Ohio that is

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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.

Give Some People a Pen

In a March 8, 2008 published in the 'Huntsville Times' the author and this is a cut and paste quote, "A: There is nothing quite like this time of year when the large canvas that is our dormant lawn is dotted (or better yet splashed) with color from a host of winter weeds. While in a painting the splashes of color against a blank background are considered artistic, most people are not so happy when they see it in their lawns especially if they have Bermuda or Zoysia grass." I have a question for this author and that is simply: WHERE DOES THIS AUTHOR GET THIS LUDICROUS INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE LIKE OR DISLIKE ABOUT THEIR WINTER ZOYSIA? This author while having some knowledge about Bermuda grass being ugly, knows very little about Zoysia Lovers. Good Day to Him or Her I say GOOD DAY!

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