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11-07-2006, 06:44 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden

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The Other Funk wrote:
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Trader4, I am not question your experiances with Zoysia but here in
north Jersey, my Zoysia stays green until I stop watering it and
greens up in about a week after I start watering. The previous owner
put it in so I don't know which variety it is.
What I can't answer, is David's question about howto stop it from
spreading. Even 4" deep edging only slows it down.
Bob

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Your saying your Zoysia in NJ doesn't turn brown/green in response to
seasnonal temps, only watering? Never heard of a grass that does
this. Plus, in Fall and early Spring, there is almost always enough
water here in NJ so that lawns don't need to be watered and doing so
won't have any real impact on color change.

I mistated that. If I keep it watered, it stays green longer then if I
don't. The guy next door has a lawn (not Zoysia) that looks like a putting
green but he's retired and can spend all day 2 or 3 times a day working on
it. The other neighbor also has Zoysia and doesn't do a thing other then cut
it. I am basing my comment on the results of my watering early and late in
the season. By late October till April, I have that brown lawn that comes
with Zoysia.
Bob
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