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Zoysia Lawn Schedule

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#1 ·
Hope everyone is having a good Fridee,

I have a zeon zoysia lawn in Atlanta and am wondering if I should put down any preventative maintenance for disease and/or insects control in the coming weeks? I had a lawn service company who did everything before but I fired them after my yard was taken over by weeds.

I sprayed Celsius this morning to kill the crabgrass and spurge which got me thinking I would really like to prevent any diseases or insect problems before they occur if I can. Last time my lawn service came out was about 3 weeks ago and they put down some liquid fertilizer so figured it was about time for another round of that as well. I'm sending a soil sample to get tested this weekend so I'll have an idea of what to buy.

So, my question is, how should I go about the remaining of the year? Is there a designated time to put down fungicides and pesticides and will applying them around the same time as fertilizer hurt anything? Is there anything other than fertilizer, fungicides, and pesticides that I need to be thinking about as well? Like PGR??

Thanks in advanced!
 
#2 ·
In my research, I didn't find set dates to do X, a lot of it is tied to soil temperatures and other conditions. Texas A&M, Clemson, Auburn all have published recommendations on when to apply fungicides, pesticides and weed preventatives for Zoysia. I was able to find them pretty easily with Google. That said, I typically aim for September - October for fall pre-emerge, February-March for spring. Watch soil temps. When they get to and below 70 in the fall, it's time, the reverse is true for spring and you're looking for it to creep above mid-50's. On fungicides, I've been told for preventative, at or around Labor Day and St. Patrick's Day are good benchmarks and then as needed according to conditions. The only set pesticide applications I do is in the spring, Talstar at the first sign of ant and mid-July, Merit for grubs.
And no, I don't know of any reason you can't fert when you're doing your other treatments. Now tank mixing it all together is another thing. You'll probably want to research that pretty closely, depending on the products.