Post construction yard

Are you going with Zenith zoysia if you're seeding?

Had a pool finished in February this year. I top dressed with good compost soil and sodded palisades zoysia. I've never had grass as green and plush as this year.

Curious if seeding with winter rye for the winter then seeding zoysia in March or so is a good solution? Unfortunately I'm not the one to ask.

You’ve already lost me with a variety of zoysia. Now i have research to do! My thoughts were rye seed before next week’s rains, then topsoil and grass in spring. I’m at the mercy of the tiger droppings gods on this.

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You’ve already lost me with a variety of zoysia. Now i have research to do! My thoughts were rye seed before next week’s rains, then topsoil and grass in spring. I’m at the mercy of the tiger droppings gods on this.

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Ok, I'm not a ronk or crawdude, but they can correct whatever I say wrong. Basically, Zenith zoysia is the only type of zoysia that grows from seed, and the germination rate is apparently really low with seed. I can't say a lot on the maintenance of zenith, but this year, I watered the hell out of my palisades, applied two rounds of fertilizer (28-0-0 and 15-5-10 I believe) and it was the plushest and green grass I've ever seen. Palisades is really drought tolerant, but it will brown up and look dead if you don't water it in the summer. But it isn't dead generally. It does open the ground up for weeds however. The maintenance was really quite simple and relatively inexpensive (I'm on a well so water is very low cost to me).

This spring, I'll be broadcasting some good nutrient dirt over the grass to give it some soil and nutrients. I'm on absolute crap dirt. Zoysia is a much higher cost as far as start up given it doesn't grow from seed well, and doesn't spread like St Augustine. Checker boarding zoysia sod isn't really an option like St. Augustine. But the maintenance seems to be a bit lower with Palisades. Locally, it's priced higher than the other grass options, so there's just no effective way of cutting costs on startup.

The cut height for palisades is 3/4" to 3", but I cut mine at 3.5" all summer to give the roots some moisture retention and shade from the hot sun and didn't have any issues. Grass is in full sun all day every day.