Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 6Dec 13, 2010 12:57 am No you'll need far more organic compost than sand 70% compost, 30% sand. The loam is ok but overall there will be more sand than loam in it That heats up and also won't hold nutrients too well and make the EZ too dependant on chemical fertilisers which will = problems for you. EZ responds soooo well to organic care and soil prep. If you stick with traditional methods it may fail in domestic applications. Zeolite is important to add also. Once laid, Molasses and seasol each week and then after a month each fortnight and then after a month or two, every few months. Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 8Dec 14, 2010 12:36 am Yeah its good stuff. Look if you commissioned me to do a lawn for you, I'd be using EZ. If you wanted me too, I'd be happy to use Pal or SWB. The key to success is in the soil prep and for a sustainable lawn you will need a sustainable soil. Many turf mobs will give the equivalent advice of selling you a high performance car but saying to fill it with a tank of Aviation fuel! By geeze enjoy the ride but when the tank of av gas runs out there is going to be some problems with performance Use my soil prep advice and my pseudo bio-dynamic ways of lawn care in domestic applications and you'll have EZ, SW or Pal looking the Shizz at times of the year when it really shouldn't At the times it should look good it will be doing it better than you'd expect with far less than it is supposed to Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 10Dec 14, 2010 6:42 pm The link is the sticky topic at the top of the landscape forum titled "Turf Laying Summary" Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 13Dec 16, 2010 4:25 pm Laying turf according to what we have "always done" is not sufficient at all. We don't get turfs of any sort becoming sustainable. They will be water hungry in summer, be up and down like a yo-yo all year. You will spend a fortune on junk you don't need and become confused by 10 different ways to sort the problem from 10 different people. You'll wish you never had lawn, like so many do! Get organic compost in, soil amendments and in clay soils, some sand too. Only far less sand than traditionally recommended. What turf farms and soil places say to you will just not make a lawn sustainable in a domestic application. Many methods have merit when done by turf managers with teams and professional equipment and training and budgets that mean fertilisers can't be over used. Domestically is very different. I want your lawn not gobble water, have deep roots, not be a major contributor to environmental degradation from fertiliser run off and pesticide leaching. Most of all you need to just not have to worry so much because your lawn will look pretty smart all year. Read up on EZ here, there's loads of threads on it. I have out lined many times what to expect from it The loam part is wonderful but you can make that loam a truly wonderful thing by adding organic compost to it. Just wonderful Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 15Nov 07, 2011 10:04 am Hi, I am in the Adelaide hills, and currently have a small patch of SWB, and indeed it goes dormant, and browns off as we get frosts and plenty of nights <5C from May to September. 31 days < 5C 165 days <10C (so far this year) Just wondering if EZ holds up any better, or, what any SA peoples real experiences are. I plan on installing another 90sqm. Starting to wonder if it might just be better off with a cool season grass and just irrigate the summer. I have a small 15sqm patch of tall fescue out the front that goes OK, but I don't like how it does not repair. Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 16Nov 07, 2011 2:37 pm EZ won't do any better, probably worse. I have it in melb and where i am its gets under 5/10 degrees at night about the same as you do. It grows ok from oct to early May then its dormant june to late sept. I would suggest you look at Kikuyu (emerald or village green/kenda) or a blend of couch and fescue (santa ana and fine fescue is ideal). Both will hold cold far better than SWB or EZ but both are more invasive and require more work to keep the runners out of the garden beds. We don't have a choice in melb as we can't water lawns at all so having a brown warm season grass in winter is just what we have to deal with unless you have Kikuyu. Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 17Nov 11, 2011 12:00 pm BeatrixKiddo is emerald Kikuyu and village green Kikuyu same? Since we cant get emerald Kikuyu in turf (they come in only seeds right?) i thought village green Kikuyu will be a good choise for us here in melbourne. Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 18Nov 11, 2011 1:26 pm Yep village green is good so is kenda kikuyu sold by austral turf. Just be aware they are very vigorious grasses that will invade garden beds etc. The upside of though is a hard wearing turf year round not just during the warmer months. If the area is not subject to wear over winter then buffalo or a zoysia is a way better choice. Re: Empire Zoysia supplier in Adelaide 19Nov 11, 2011 1:28 pm Oh forgot to say emerald and village green are different, emerald is seed only and village green/kenda is turf only. Building a new home, and looking for a garage builder (home builder not contracted to do this). Someone to build steel garage (double), colorbond, including supply and… 0 3252 |