[Nebraska]

Have a customer that's wants to get rid of 2000 sf front yard of zoysia.
What methods have others used with good results.
Method recommended to us by our supplier is as follows:
We are thinking of Spraying with Roundup 3 times beginning in late May / early June when it's actively growing.
Then going in with a sod cutter or skid loader and removing the zoiysia sod..
Then laying new bluegrass sod.
....and offer no guarantee as to the zoysia not returning.
Any thoughts?

[Tim]

Hey Nebraska,

if you decide to use a sod cutter, I will furnish a yard that you can dump it in! LOL <,"}//>{ Tim

[Nebraska]

I'll give it to YOU free if you load it and haul it out there....only 4-5 hour drive?

[GLAN]

That is the way I have done it. Spray and kill the plants first.

As for sod cutter........there is no other way........makes the work so much faster and by cutting and disposing you rid your self of alot of weed seeds just sitting in the top layer.

And it's nice when rototilling not having to rake out the grass clumps.

Sod cutter is the best

[Nebraska]

We did that job....but I implicitly offered NO GUARANTEE that the zoysia would not eventually return.

[GLAN]

Originally posted by Nebraska
We did that job....but I implicitly offered NO GUARANTEE that the zoysia would not eventually return.

Hard to guarantee that the entire Zoyzia root system was killed off just cause the plant above was dead..


it's a plant right?..........Cut a tree down level with ground.......do the roots instantly die?

[turfdude]

The only way to guarantee it won't come back is to remove the first 4" of vegetative growth along w/ the zoysia (usually va a bulldozer). Most people can not afford to do it this way since disposal and replacement soil would be very expensive. We used a box cutter on a kubota tractor some +-10 years ago on a 5000 sqft front lawn. If you drive by today at least 40% is back to zoysia. Zoysia is a terrible WEED.

[GLAN]

Zoyzia is the poormans grass

[greenman]

Originally posted by GLAN
Zoyzia is the poormans grass

Maybe in the north. In the mid-South, its the premo of grasses. Not sure what you mean by poorman's grass. Zoysia sod isn't cheap, and grows rapidly. Weekly cuts (sometimes more often) are a must from mid April to Nov. here.

[GLAN]

My reference to "poormans grass" for Zoyzia turf is within the context of my location.

Zoyzia does not require as early cutting in the season as does other turf type varieties common for my area. It also does not reguire cutting late in the season.

Zoyzia does not require the intense management as blue/rye/fescue.....lower fertilizer, pesticide requirements and less frequent mowing during it's growing season.

It is purchased here through mail order as plugs.....plug the existing lawn and in a few years it wipes out everything else

Thus......"Poormans Grass"