But the light brown color makes it much easier to pick up the dog doo...:thumb:

We get a lot of that around here!

Do they offer sod? The only two ways I seen was plug or seed and they said to use the seed your ground had to be bare.

Well, I don't know for sure. Not in this ad they don't. But the golf course I belong to has it in between 2 fairways and they use a sodding machine to transplant it to other areas. I just assume that you can get it that way, but I don't know for sure.

Biggest downside IMO is that, like bermuda, you have a completely brown lawn after the first frost.

Actually, who really cares what their lawn looks like in winter conditions?

I have it in my lawn. I order a few plugs from an advertisement in Parade Magazine. You set the plugs a foot apart checkerboard style, and then basicly do nothing. It does stay brown a little longer in the spring than most grasses , but mine is almost totally green right now and it will stay green until winter. It's thick and tough, and you honestly dont have to mow it nearly as often, because it does not grow very tall. The drawback I have to it, is that it is very invasive around landscaped areas. It spreads quickly by runners and you must continually trim the runners back around places you dont want it to spread to. Other than that, I think it makes a great looking lawn..

Well, I don't know for sure. Not in this ad they don't. But the golf course I belong to has it in between 2 fairways and they use a sodding machine to transplant it to other areas. I just assume that you can get it that way, but I don't know for sure.

The way I got mine was in about 2' X 3' sections of sod that was perforated into about 1 inch square pieces. They supply a tool that cuts a plug into the ground the same size as the plug of Zoysia. Simply cut a plug into your existing lawn, and insert the plug of Zoysia, a foot apart checkerboard style. It will eventially choke out whatever grass you have currently existing. After the Zoysia takes hold , you can use your plugging tool to cut out plugs of your new Zoysia lawn to transplant to other areas if you want to . There is really no need to ever have to buy more plugs again, if you keep your tool.

Our next door neighbor has it, and the brown lawn most of the year is really ugly. Even now, her yard is only half-way green with patches of other grass types.

 

I understand it's very hard to mow because of it's thickness.

Also, you better have very understanding neighbors. The stuff spreads like wildfire!

It's no harder to mow that any other type of grass, I guess because it does not grow very tall at all. It is very thick however.

It's no harder to mow that any other type of grass, I guess because it does not grow very tall at all. It is very thick however.

That's why I hear (from everyone who mows for my 92-yr-old neighbor) that it's hard to mow. They say it's kind of like plodding through quicksand.

Go to a golf course.

Play a round.

Take a few large divets with the 5 iron in the fairway, or find some that haven't been replaced...instead of replacing the divet on the course, use the sand mixture that many have to fill in divets.

Take divets home with you.

Prepare soil on your slope, place divet on the barespot...water like crazy for a few days and watch it take off.

Cheap and inexpensive:D