Help with weed in Zoysia

patnalli – posted 16 June 2005 09:30

I had my back lawn re-sodded with Emerald Zoysia approx. 3 months ago. I have about 4dozen+ pieces of sod that seem to be totally covered in some sort of grass or weed. It is sort of a lime-green’ish color right now, quite a bit lighter than most of the pieces of zoysia sod. The Zoysia *appears to be* growing fine close to the turf of most of the affected pieces, but I cant tell for sure. Can anyone help me identify what this weed/grass is?

Here is a picture of one of the pieces of sod: http://users.adelphia.net/~patnalli/grassweed.jpg

Here is a picture of a single plucked grass/weed: http://users.adelphia.net/~patnalli/onepiece.jpg

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[This message has been edited by patnalli (edited 16 June 2005).]

AledoTexasGrassGuy – posted 16 June 2005 11:48

I’ve been told that Zoysia will choke out any weed (I just soddeed by backyard). I’m not sure if weed killers will harm zoysia.

Alex_in_FL – posted 21 June 2005 18:29

Zoysia is very tolerant of most herbicides. I am unsure what weed you have but you can use any of the following safely on zoysia:2,4-D; Image; MSMA/DSMA; or atrazine. One of those should take care of your problem.

Good luck!

empire1 – posted 01 July 2005 19:52

I have a 1 year old empire Zoysia lawn in west central Fl. It looks great and chokes out most weeds except for 1. Dreaded Torpedo grass. I cut my lawn at about 1.5 inches and at first it was hard to tell that I had the torpedo in a few spots. It looks kind of similar to Empire except the blades are just a little wider and more of a blueish color. I had done some research and found a new herbicide Drive 75 by BASF. Should get rid of the few spots I have. I have not applied it yet.