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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I grew up in the north where I worked at golf courses all my life. I learned that it's best to have a mixture of different grasses on a golf course as well as in your lawn. The reason being that there are different types of diseases and insects that will attack some types of grass and not other. If your lawn is all one strain of grass and you get something that destroys that particular type of grass,, you lose your entire lawn. If you have a mix then you still have a lawn.
Since I've moved down here I was told that it's best to have all one strain of grass and to not mix them. I have St Augustines mostly, (which I think is more of a weed) and some Zoysia mixed in. I have patched some areas with Bermuda. I'm told that the Bermuda will spread and take over everything, but I haven't seen any evidence of that happening yet. Of course it's only been a few months.
I do notice that the Bermuda grows a lot faster. I mow once a week and by the day I mow, the Bermuda is much taler than the rest of the lawn.
I do know that you can cut Bermuda much lower and it will survive. It is what is on the fairways and greens down here. (Unless that's a different type of Bermuda)
I'm no expert, but I have worked with experts in the field of agronomy for 35 years. I'm just throwing this stuff out there. Please feel free to comment on it.
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Its true, Bermuda takes over Zoysia!!! Nothing that you really can do about it either, EXCEPT to kill it along with other grass. Theres a product called ornamec, that is suppose to kill bermuda without harming zoysia. I tried it, but never worked for me. Sometimes that raggety look'n bermuda comes in too, which i dont like. I see it on golf courses too, in second cut>