Very good video. I'm dealing with El Toro Zoysia here in Hawaii. It's thicker and more robust than Emerald. Are you adding compost or fertilizer after dethatching ? I really don't want to encourage this grass anymore than it is. Also, you now expose bare ground. Does that leave an opening for weeds to take hold ? Pre-emergent necessary ? Our weeds are on steroids here ! Over 100" of rain yearly. Thanks again , Aloha
I have emerald zoysia down in atlanta, my back is greening but the front is still brown, i just cut to lowest setting but am wondering if i should dethatch.. I let it grow pretty long last year as it was the first year, would you suggest i dethatch as well?
I inherited my family home. My dad plugged the entire yard with zoysia. It’s about 2 acres. It’s never been thatched….. it’s probably been 40+ years!! Where do I start 😩
A yard always needs to be dethatched every year, no matter the grass type. Of course yards can still look beautiful for several years without doing this but symptoms will begin to appear.
@@lucilledog8832 true sorry....more thatch build up means more likely to get disease, less oxygen and nutrients to the roots....this is a fact. If you read my comment you would actually know I was right....some yards have never had this done but still look OK doesn't mean they're actually healthy
@@lucilledog8832 never think youre smarter than a superintendent for a multimillion golf course, which I am. Turf management degree from Virginia Tech and over 25 years on course experience.....
I live on Long Island and I put down Meyer 35 years ago and it's been beautiful ever since. Plugs. Never dethatched it. Why are you guys dethatching the Emerald? What's the problem with it? I see from the video what the problem is. I'm starting to think that my grass is completely different in structure. I don't see stolons running across the bottom. I wonder what the heck I got here. I'm taking plugs from the back, where the Meyer is and putting some in the front which is a disaster zone. The front is just plane grass and full of weeds and you name it. The Meyer area in the back is flawless. Now I gotta take a very close look to see what the heck is going on here. Grass is so tight you really can't see much. Research time. Good video. PS You look overheated.
Emerald needs to be dethatched if it is allowed to grow to long (as explained in the video) or if there is not enough watering and the grass turns brown, like during a drought.
Don't call it deep dethatching, verticutting or aeration both do the same thing but verticutting does it differently and will pull more dead material out, ie clippings and other material. What he calls thatch IS NOT THATCH, that is clippings and dead clumps from improper mowing, basically someone letting the grass grow to long which leaves piles of grass onto of each other because this looks nothing like Emerald Zoysia. If you Google grass thatch you will see it is the material under clippings and dead material, it essentially forms a new soil line and looks like soil but it us made up of organic material for the most part
@@madeinamerica9449 grass clippings do not make thatch IF CUT PROPERLY. Those clippings in this lawn IS NOT THATCH its dead material because grass was cut improperly. I have a turf management degree with 20ish year on course experience plus Working in the breeding program to make better zoysia cultivars, like the new ultra dwarf zoysia cultivars mad for putting greens or tee to green. Laser, primeo, trinity and prizm
@@madeinamerica9449 don't read on the forums, read data from colleges that study turf management. Zoysia is already one of the grasses that produces the most thatch. Clippings do not contribute to thatch unless people are mowing improperly but even than it takes a long time because that creates a layer of dead material right above the thatch. Dead material IS NOT PART OF THE THATCH LAYER, Thatch is organic material that has been broken down into soil, clippings that are cut properly break down into nutrients, mainly nitrogen. It not hard to understand. Stress DOES NOT CREATE THATCH, A improper height of cut causes that during heat. Maintaining zoysia much higher than recommended will cause this, if the grass was cut at the height you would have tall grass leaning over, pretty simple to understand because that's why you don't see on shorter cut lawns, 2.5 and under. That grass leaning over create dead grass is not thatch, like I explained above that just dead material on top of the thatch. I learned all of this before I got my degree because I've been working on courses nearly my entire life with over 200 hundred years of experience from the people that trained and taught me but now I'm superintendent at a private country club with Zoysia fairways and 777 bentgrass greens that we just installed switching from A4.
Very good video.
I'm dealing with El Toro Zoysia here in Hawaii. It's thicker and more robust than Emerald.
Are you adding compost or fertilizer after dethatching ? I really don't want to encourage this grass anymore than it is.
Also, you now expose bare ground. Does that leave an opening for weeds to take hold ? Pre-emergent necessary ?
Our weeds are on steroids here ! Over 100" of rain yearly.
Thanks again , Aloha
Would like to see an after video
A dethatcher is not necessary. All you have to do is scalp your zoysia every spring and bag up the clippings.
I have emerald zoysia down in atlanta, my back is greening but the front is still brown, i just cut to lowest setting but am wondering if i should dethatch.. I let it grow pretty long last year as it was the first year, would you suggest i dethatch as well?
Same situation. I’m 1 year post sod, trying to decide what to do. I think first mow would pull up a lot of it on a young lawn
Looks like that yard could use a dose of Milorganite! Good video!
I inherited my family home. My dad plugged the entire yard with zoysia. It’s about 2 acres. It’s never been thatched….. it’s probably been 40+ years!! Where do I start 😩
How long for this to get back to green
Couldn't one burn it off if they live in the country?
How much do you charge i am in acworth and need my .25 acre dethratching
A yard always needs to be dethatched every year, no matter the grass type. Of course yards can still look beautiful for several years without doing this but symptoms will begin to appear.
False.
@@lucilledog8832 true sorry....more thatch build up means more likely to get disease, less oxygen and nutrients to the roots....this is a fact. If you read my comment you would actually know I was right....some yards have never had this done but still look OK doesn't mean they're actually healthy
@@lucilledog8832 never think youre smarter than a superintendent for a multimillion golf course, which I am. Turf management degree from Virginia Tech and over 25 years on course experience.....
I live on Long Island and I put down Meyer 35 years ago and it's been beautiful ever since. Plugs. Never dethatched it. Why are you guys dethatching the Emerald? What's the problem with it?
I see from the video what the problem is. I'm starting to think that my grass is completely different in structure. I don't see stolons running across the bottom. I wonder what the heck I got here. I'm taking plugs from the back, where the Meyer is and putting some in the front which is a disaster zone. The front is just plane grass and full of weeds and you name it. The Meyer area in the back is flawless. Now I gotta take a very close look to see what the heck is going on here.
Grass is so tight you really can't see much. Research time. Good video. PS You look overheated.
Emerald needs to be dethatched if it is allowed to grow to long (as explained in the video) or if there is not enough watering and the grass turns brown, like during a drought.
That's a scarifier not a dethatcher. 2 different machines for 2 different purposes. Dethatcher has prongs not blades.
Two questions. 1. How did you install, plugs or sod? 2. How often should you do a deep dethatched like this?
Don't call it deep dethatching, verticutting or aeration both do the same thing but verticutting does it differently and will pull more dead material out, ie clippings and other material. What he calls thatch IS NOT THATCH, that is clippings and dead clumps from improper mowing, basically someone letting the grass grow to long which leaves piles of grass onto of each other because this looks nothing like Emerald Zoysia. If you Google grass thatch you will see it is the material under clippings and dead material, it essentially forms a new soil line and looks like soil but it us made up of organic material for the most part
@@madeinamerica9449 grass clippings do not make thatch IF CUT PROPERLY. Those clippings in this lawn IS NOT THATCH its dead material because grass was cut improperly. I have a turf management degree with 20ish year on course experience plus Working in the breeding program to make better zoysia cultivars, like the new ultra dwarf zoysia cultivars mad for putting greens or tee to green. Laser, primeo, trinity and prizm
@@madeinamerica9449 you need to re-educate yourself on thatch
@@madeinamerica9449 thatch DOES NOT OCCUR from clippings if the lawn is mowed properly, that means following 1/3 rule and half way decent mulching
@@madeinamerica9449 don't read on the forums, read data from colleges that study turf management. Zoysia is already one of the grasses that produces the most thatch. Clippings do not contribute to thatch unless people are mowing improperly but even than it takes a long time because that creates a layer of dead material right above the thatch. Dead material IS NOT PART OF THE THATCH LAYER, Thatch is organic material that has been broken down into soil, clippings that are cut properly break down into nutrients, mainly nitrogen. It not hard to understand. Stress DOES NOT CREATE THATCH, A improper height of cut causes that during heat. Maintaining zoysia much higher than recommended will cause this, if the grass was cut at the height you would have tall grass leaning over, pretty simple to understand because that's why you don't see on shorter cut lawns, 2.5 and under. That grass leaning over create dead grass is not thatch, like I explained above that just dead material on top of the thatch. I learned all of this before I got my degree because I've been working on courses nearly my entire life with over 200 hundred years of experience from the people that trained and taught me but now I'm superintendent at a private country club with Zoysia fairways and 777 bentgrass greens that we just installed switching from A4.
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