On Tue, 18 May 2021 08:19:06 -0400, slate_leeper
wrote:

On Mon, 17 May 2021 19:43:41 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 17 May 2021 17:57:00 -0400, slate_leeper
wrote:

For a mostly-shady but heavily traveled (by my dogs) area?
Northeastern Tennessee near the Virginia border.

Zoysia should grow there. It's in the "transition zone" but it should
go. Zoysia is dense, wear resistant, drought resistant and will take
over anything in its path. Great stuff but if you have flower beds,
they need a *good* border. If it's kept healthy, you'll never see
another weed. Keep it cut or you're going to need a sharp sickle.
It's dense stuff.


Thanks for the suggestion. A neighbor down the street used that. It
grew fine, but in the winter turns brown unlike the grasses on the
other lawns.

Yes, that's typical of warm-weather grasses. They stay brown until
late in the spring. IIRC, the soil temperature has to get to 70F, or
some such. Everyone uses warm-weather grasses (mostly Bermuda) here
so everyone's yard is the same color.