Bermuda vs Zoysia

gadawg777 – posted 14 April 2003 07:29

I am located about 30 miles north of Atlanta,Georgia and am about to plant grass in my yard. I have a few very old oak trees which cover parts of the yard. From my observations, the areas I have outlined to plant grass in recieve about 5 hours of full sun a day (9:30a.m.-1:30p.m.) I am trying to decide whether I should plant bermuda sod or meyers or zenith zoysia. I understand bermuda is not as shade tolerant as zoysia, but is 5 hours of full sunlight enough to sustain the bermuda? My main concerns are getting enough sunlight and being low maintenance. Thanks in advance for your advice!Tim

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 28 June 2003 00:53

It’s way too late for this advice, but I’d go for the St Augustine in a heartbeat.

Ooops! That wasn’t a choice was it? If you can grow St Aug that far north, you really should consider it. It is the low maintenance, shade tolerant grass you’re looking for.

Renay322 – posted 20 April 2004 10:21

Zeinth or Emerald is your best bet. I have Bermuda front and Emerald back. I don’t have to do anything to my back yard. My neighbor is jealous because she only saw me cut my grass once last summer and my lawn looked as good as his. I actually cut it twice.:-)

Renay322 – posted 20 April 2004 10:28

here is a link that will help:

http://www.pattenseed.com/info-chsel.html

By the way I live north of Atlanta. We are zone 1 on the link

ted – posted 25 April 2004 19:22

absolutely no st. augustine that far north!!!

atljackson – posted 14 May 2004 13:31

Don’t you mean Zone 2 or 3? Zone one looks like it ends well below Atlanta.