Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Mar 21, 2012 5:35 pm Hello everyone! I have some questions/concerns and was hoping you could spare a little time to provide an opinion. For those who followed my other thread 'Opinions on my soil, organic compost and grass' you would have seen I went through all of Fu's steps for my new lawn. The turf was installed last Friday and things have been going well. We have had a fair bit of rain here in Brisbane for over a week so I have not had to water it much as apart from dud squares most of it has healthy and open leaves and some areas of the ground has been soggy to step on. There are areas that are mostly dead though, but they are individual squares and they may have been at the bottom of the stacks. I am not too concerned with those as you can see new growth happening in most of them and they should recover. Some squares look very luscious and healthy. I don't believe it has anything to do with watering since you can see the outlines of the squares, rather than a patch. You can see the contrast clearly in these 2 pictures: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ One of these squares however has my concern as I am not sure that it is Empire Zoysia growing. It looks a little different to the other squares. Here is an overview picture: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is a close up of the growth in question: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is showing the square next to it that looks normal for comparison: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Do you think it is actually EZ turf or should I pull it out? I canβt imagine anything different would have time to grow through from seed but perhaps it came from the farm like that? I know the installers found a square which had couch growing in it which was discarded. Lastly, I wanted to show you this picture of one of the somewhat dead patches of EZ turf. Do you think this will recover okay? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks for your time and hope to hear back soon! EDIT: I don't know why the first pic won't work, it is there in my albums but can't load it:S Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 2Mar 21, 2012 7:55 pm We had a very similar thing with Sir W. Some patches were just differen - and I could probably still recognise one or two of them, if by nothing else, then by how strangely close to soil they grow (hard to explain! they just don't grow up but are rather super slow growing ... ideal grass BTW, pitty that not all of the delivery was like that!! ). But on the overall - it all pretty much evens out eventually ... only I am a b****** perfectionist so can still spot them. Oh, to me this all looks the same species of grass. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 3Mar 21, 2012 8:54 pm Appor, The different growth is just a weed called paspalum. Just pull it out. Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 4Mar 21, 2012 9:01 pm BK is spot on. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 5Mar 21, 2012 9:01 pm And for the dry bits just top dress them with a little decent soil from a garden bed or from somewhere else in your garden. Those areas will come back or just grow into that soil over time, it looks pretty normal to me. Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 6Mar 21, 2012 9:02 pm I was thinking 'what is he seeing' ... and then it hit me Yep, there are clearly some guests there, but I thought the OP was talking about the whole patch (ie. square) and not about individual grasses within a square Good eye for this stuff, BK My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 8Mar 22, 2012 7:28 am So I pulled out the Paspalum this morning. I think I pulled out a fair chunk of EZ turf at the same time unfortunately. It's a real tangle of runners/stolons/roots which are quite open too, I think the soil has been washed down leaving them somewhat exposed. Now I am worried that I am going to end up with a real thatchy lawn and that there may be other occurances of Paspalum in other lawn squares:( EDIT: I didn't water the lawn again this morning. We had some rain overnight but I don't know how much. Now I've just read that forecasts predict 150mm over the sunshine coast/brisbane area today! Glad I didn't Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 9Mar 22, 2012 8:18 am You need to add the img code around your photos so the site knows you are wanting to link a photo. I've added them for you. You need---> [img] written at the beginning on the photo link and [/img] at the end Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 10Mar 23, 2012 6:46 am applor So I pulled out the Paspalum this morning. I think I pulled out a fair chunk of EZ turf at the same time unfortunately. It's a real tangle of runners/stolons/roots which are quite open too, I think the soil has been washed down leaving them somewhat exposed. Now I am worried that I am going to end up with a real thatchy lawn and that there may be other occurances of Paspalum in other lawn squares:( I wouldn't worry just get some light top dressing soil on the exposed spots so the stolons actually touch soil and can root down. Thatch isn't an issue atm or for a while. Also paspalum season is coming to an end so you are less likely to get any new occurrences. Other weeds yes, but once the turf is a bit older you can control them easy enough without having pull them up. For the top dress, you really only need a couple of spade fulls of soil. The very best outcome you will get is if you can just dig up some soil from anywhere in your block and mix it with compost 4 parts soil to 1 part compost. And when you top dress leave some of the leaf poking out. Re: new lawn concern with pics, opinions please 11Mar 23, 2012 1:59 pm We had some really dry bits when ours was put down also. A few bags of naked farmer from bunnings sprinked over those bits and it went nuts. i had the my concreters concrete right up to the fence. I have pits all along my path, so the water tends to drain away from the house and into the pits. There's only one… 7 12793 the leaves that are now underground go yellow, the tips that poke through photosynthesise and have chlorophyll, same reason they grow rhubarb in the dark. 5 4891 |