Step 1 pick a time in september to overseed the lawn.
Mixing st augustine and zoysia grass.
Augustine grass is cheaper and easier to establish and maintain while zoysia is a little costlier with a much more frequent maintenance schedule.
Augustine mix in 3 6 of high quality compost to help with drainage and improve fertility.
Augustine will not look bad.
Augustine will be partially to fully killed.
Of the two turfgrasses st.
It is recommended that you fertilize overseeded bermuda grass and do so twice in december and february.
Augustine and it is fairly low maintenance in the right climate.
That is why i am removing everything this time.
Mow the grass at a low setting but do not take off more than one third of the grass blade.
Will it look better when the 2 grasses mix together.
Most of the grass in the shaded sections of the yard is dead and so i was thinking of putting new sod in.
For zoysia grass to overtake and smother st.
Zoysia lawns are greyish green in color with a fine texture while st.
Augustine grass in my backyard.
That comes to about 55 per cubic yard.
The new grass only lasted a year because the roots and water had problems making it down through the mat of dead grass.
It is not at all tolerant of cold temperatures and requires plenty of moisture for survival.
The landscape guy recommended zoysia in the well shaded sections of the yard and said it is better shade tolerant than st.
It is a very coarse textured type that grows via above ground stolons that can reach several feet.
Augustine grass is best suited to warm arid regions such as florida and the gulf coast region.
You may need to mow the lawn twice to achieve a grass blade that is an inch in height.
Augustine grass produces a denser lawn and is generally needed for older lawns that have bare areas.
The going rate for removing 4 inches of existing soil and replacing it with a topsoil compost mix is 70 cents per sq ft.
Augustine grass is a fertilizer intensive grass needing to be fertilized every two months or with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer every 10 weeks.
Zoysia is a more versatile turf grass than st.
The opposite has happened on the side of my office building here at houston grass.
Plus he said the grasses are similar looking and so mixing zoysia with the existing st.
Augustine grass the soil must become drier to favor the zoysia s slower growth and cause the st.
When to choose zoysia.
When you prepare your lawn for st.
Occasionally it will be found in areas of california.
In light shade or subfreezing winter weather zoysia will persist even when dormant but the st.
Augustine all the way around it but somebody dropped a block of zoysia out there several years ago and now palisades zoysia has overtaken the st.
It looks like there was never st.