Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 2Dec 01, 2009 10:43 am Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 8Dec 01, 2009 1:14 pm Living in Caloundra Thread****** Lovin my house all finished!!! Now tackling the HUGE task of the Garden- viewtopic.php?f=31&t=14782 Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 11Dec 01, 2009 3:15 pm Living in Caloundra Thread****** Lovin my house all finished!!! Now tackling the HUGE task of the Garden- viewtopic.php?f=31&t=14782 Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 13Dec 01, 2009 5:14 pm 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 16Dec 02, 2009 8:45 am haha, i told you to wait for fu, now look at what you've made him do Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 17Dec 02, 2009 9:39 pm Fu is 100% correct. The problem is 'brown patch', a fungus, not lawn grubs. It can affect any grass variety. It is a soil bourne fungus that is usually triggered by a sudden change of season and will disappear just as quick. One day lush, next day irregular silver patches, next day dead patches. Any warm season grass will grow into the damaged areas eventually and recover. Don't fertilise, don't water late pm or at night untill the areas around have started to grow into the affected regions. Other fungus problems are caused by; too much high nitrogen fertilisers in humid weather, wet leaves from night watering and blunt mower blades that will allow it to spread easily from excesively damaged leaves. There are lawn grubs/beetles everywhere, a few in a new lot of turf wont hurt anything. They're only a problem in plague proportions in sporting surfaces like bowling greens etc. This shouldn't be confused with army worms or sod web worms that can destroy the best lawn in the street overnight. This is another story, so if you see alot of moths around your outside light of a night, be ware. Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 18Dec 02, 2009 9:44 pm Thanks for the feedback grasshopper. Good to see your posts again Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 19Dec 02, 2009 9:47 pm Forgot to mention, with the dead fungus patches, rake out the dead material which will promote new growth into the area Re: Dead Patches - Empire Zoysia - Any Ideas? 20Dec 03, 2009 6:21 am Thanks for all the replies. So no watering late at night (I have been watering late arvo between 4 and 7). Should I be watering first thing in the morning then maybe? I think I will try Mancozeb if I can find it. Should I spray the whole lawn or just the effected areas. If the whole lawn, will this stuff effect the un-effected/good parts of the lawn? Thanks I would say both styles you have pictured are steel. The lower chord of the first pic would be a massive lump if made using timber considering the size of the rafters. If… 1 6779 Hi guys We have just removed a very large grape vine which was mounted to a structure along this wall. This is a shared wall with our neighbour, and after removal, we… 0 4205 |