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Old 12-18-2019, 05:26 PM
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Default Sounds like a soon to be turf war

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Originally Posted by champion6 View Post
Are you in TV?

If you had Zoysia, then your neighbors on both sides had Zoysia. When you replaced your Zoysia with St. Augustine, how were you (and they) able to prevent infiltration going in both directions. Sounds like a lot of cost and work for what?
I'm not sure what the rules are but would expect there are some.
Our lawns are all attached. If, one neighbor has Zoyzia and the other St Augustine there is nothing to stop them spreading into each
other. Both neighbors will eventually have patches of each.

There is no perfect grass. Every grass that is used in a lawn have pluses and minuses. St Augustine, particularly in hot times can be wiped out with common broad-leaf weed killer-24D and if you have it intruding into a zoysia lawn that is one solution. Another chemical control for St Augustine that will not kill Zoysia is sold as
Quin kill max