Bad areas in Centipede

For a quick fix rake that dead stuff out and throw some decent quality topsoil mixed with sand over the top of that rough looking spot. Take something like a 3’ wide push room and level the dirt out buried slightly below the living grass. You don’t totally want to cover the existing grass just push that fresh dirt in there to fill in the dead spots. Throw some centipede seed on it when you can keep it moist. My centipede yard looked like arse this year and so did a lot of others from Pensacola to Houston. What you took a picture of looked like my whole yard. I got so pissed I now have Tifway 419 and zoysia. Your problem isn’t that hard to fix.

They are bare spots

Man don’t I know. Ronk, I probably have about 1000 to 1500 sq ft like this. Would you clean it out and just come back with Zoysia sod? I know it’s super aggressive. I’d hope it would end up taking over the whole back yard. The back yard that was sodded with centipede is about 15k to 20k sq ft.

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Ronk, I probably have about 1000 to 1500 sq ft like this. Would you clean it out and just come back with Zoysia sod?

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The answer is yes. Take a tiller, turn the scrappy spots of centipede over, throw some zoysia sod in its place. Problem solved. Certain cultivars of zoysia have the same type of blade as centipede so it mixes in well. Ronk will tell you to plow or nuke your whole yard and kill the centipede like it stole something from you. Centipede wronged him in a previous life.

If you want a quick fix do what I suggested. That’s a nice looking piece of property you have. Wish I had a pond out back.

Geo Zoysia is that fine bladed one isn’t it? Seems like that’s the one you said was your favorite the other day. There are a lot of different kinds of zoysia now to the point it’s getting confusing. I put 10 pieces of some Palisades Zoysia out over the weekend on the back side of my property. Thought I’d see how it looked out of curiosity. Out at the sod farm it looked to have a wider blade but it was pretty. Sodded my parents yard with Empire Zoysia and it looks similar to centipede with a smaller blade, much greener, and it doesn’t die like centipede. I’m with you on that Tifway 419. That’s some nice hybrid Bermuda.