Temperature and Humidity. Zoysia grass is a warm-weather grass. It grows best in very warm to hot weather, above 80°F. It will stop growing when the first frost hits and remain dormant and brown ...

By: Nathan Winter – U of M Extension I have had a few calls this past week asking about those too-good-to-be-true ads for zoysia grass plugs. Zoysia grass plugs are winter hardy here in ...

Large-patch fungus is a major disease problem on both Zoysia and St. Augustine grass. This disease is a spring and fall problem as the soil temperatures drop.

Take all root rot (TARR), also called take all patch, is a soil-borne fungus that attacks the roots of St. Augustine, also zoysia and even bermudagrass.

Q • We have zoysia grass in the backyard. I’ve seen many of my neighbors lose their lawns to an unstoppable fungus. Now I see that it has started in ...

Q: Last year, my three neighbors and I experienced major sections of dead zoysia grass. We hired a company to maintain our lawns. They treated for grubs, then fungus, but it didn’t look any better.

As the weather gets cooler, you won’t have to mow your lawn as often, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore it. One thing in particular you want to keep ...

I’m starting to get back soil tests that people took after Ian’s rains, and I can tell a big difference.