Zoysia seeds

kitana – posted 05 April 2003 08:56

Has anyone used zoysia seeds to start a new lawn? I am looking at Zenith and Companion (www.seedland.com).

Please let me know how it went, and what the grass is like…soft, blade thickness, etc…

Thanks!

ted – posted 06 April 2003 14:33

zoysia seeds are painfully slow to germinate, the technology just isn’t there yet. Examine why you want a zoysia lawn. The concept that most folks have is that they are low maintenance. Believe me they are anything but. they have their own set of problems, just like any other grass.

U_P_turf_newby – posted 09 September 2005 17:41

kitina, did you ever try a zoysia seedling lawn?

kitana – posted 09 September 2005 21:45

I ended up going with plugs. They’re a lot of work, but it worked out well. The plugs were about 3×3″, and I planted a few thousand over the last few years, and the only ones that died were the ones that were just outside my sprikler system. It does grow slow, but it looks great where it has filled in completely…no weeds!

QWERTY – posted 10 September 2005 16:07

I have small area of zenith zoysia that went great.

Plugging is a waste of time and money. Should have sodded.

kitana – posted 10 September 2005 20:28

Plugging sure takes a long time, but its not a waste of money. I saved a over a thousand on my one acre of land.

Superstar – posted 12 September 2005 07:39

Oh really, how did you figure that?

Watering?

Chemicals to keep weeds under control? Bugs? etc?

Where did you get plugs from? Ordering plugs online is a waste of money esp on zoysia. They aren’t that much difference from getting sod from local sod farm. Shipping cost on plugs will kill you! http://www.lawnplugs.com/info/prices.html is a good example. I can get 450sqft of sod for the same price of plugs with shipping cost for the same area.

Anything else?

two years are too long to fill in. Not worth the trouble.

kitana – posted 12 September 2005 08:41

I was refering only to the cost of the plugs vs the cost of the sod. I didn’t even price it exactly, but to sod everywhere I wanted grass, with zoysia, was going to be thousands of dollars. The plugs cost me around $750. Yes it took a couple years to fill in, but that was no work at all, I just had to sit back and wait

I got my plugs from a local seller, who delivered them for free if I bought a pallet full.

I’m not a person that needs a perfect lawn overnight, waiting was not problem for me.