Emerald Zoysia Lawn Burned By Gardner with MSMA Help…

wineguy2929 – posted 14 August 2005 12:09

We have a few concerned questions for you, as recently our landscaper did some harm to our new lawn…Within the past few months we’d noticed many small weeds growing within our Emerald Zoysia lawn. We asked our landscaper about this and he applies some sort of herbicide, which had little or no effect on the weeds….THEN…unknown t us…..he sprayed MSMA any several parts of our lawn and left LARGE BURN SPOTS on our once perfectly green lawn!Yesterday, my wife and I spent hours picking weeds from our lawn and noticed that the only things growing in these dead spots were either more weeds or some Bermuda grass!We are so upset with him!This was approximately 1 month ago and since then, these burn spots DO NOT appear to be improving. It almost looks like these spots are DEAD.Questions:1) Staff at the Home Depot Landscape Supply Store, told me that because our lawn is just a few months old, that our gardener should NOT have applied MSMA the lawn? Is this true?2) Will the grass ever come back?2) If Yes…Is there anything that we can apply to these spots to help it grow back?3) If No….Would you recommend that I advise our landscaper to replace these spots with new Emerald Zoysia sod prior to the fall?We are heartbroken about are once PERFECTLY GREEN LAWN..which now looks burned in so many places.We appreciate any and all help in answering our questions.

tommy – posted 15 August 2005 12:03

Its hard to a get a complete kill with just one application of MSMA. Your situation is usually managable. To promote new growth in the damaged areas, take a weed whip and cut much of the dead looking grass out. This will stimulate new growth from the lower runners.