Someone please answer my help question

johnboy – posted 20 April 2003 19:23

I need someone to answer my help question so I can quit thinking about my yard for awhile.

wdrake – posted 20 April 2003 20:25

Sounds like you have a problem. El Tore is reported to havbe good cold tolerance and early green up in the spring.

TWO SUGGESTIONS.1. Take a look at the University of Florida fact sheet on Zoysiagrass at:http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH011

2. Contact you county extension agent for advice (You may want to take him a sample or two) You can find the office at:http://www.ca.uky.edu/county/

johnboy – posted 23 April 2003 19:21

wdrake. I took some samples about a month ago and my soil pH was6.8. They said that nothing needs to be done, that everything looks good. I mowed my yard to 1in this week to dry the soil out and to warm the soil up. The ground was wet. I know that zoysia doesn’t need alot of water. The grass roots are good, because I pulled on them today and it’s holding good. If my yard was dead or if something was wrong with it, shouldn’t it pull up easy? I put down some pre-emerge down a month ago that has 21-0-21 in it and then last night I put down some 10-10-10 to help it out. Is my yard coming back. If not, it’s it the sod farms fault?

johnboy – posted 03 May 2003 20:06

Phil or someone please answer my last question on my help form. Thanks

seed – posted 05 May 2003 06:53

The first thread is here: https://turfgrass.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000116.html

johnboy, you are in a waiting mode, and I don’t see any point in fertilizing until the zoysia begins active growth. It sounds like it may still be a little early, even though for whatever reason the zoysia (lower cutting height, different variety?) on the golf course is green. It is too early to speculate what, if anything, is the problem, until you see some regrowth. At that time, if the regrowth is uneven you may have some clues, but if it stays brown then you will still have something to think about. What was the minimum temperature at your location this winter?

Phil

johnboy – posted 05 May 2003 14:24

We had a wet and cold winter this year. We had alot of snow. The temperature got down in the teen’s several times. The past two weeks it has done nothing but rain. We had about a week of nice weather and then rain from there on. The yard started to to turn green in some areas and then the rain came.