Zoysia, water use, and fact checking
I saw an article in the Global Golf Post that states zoysiagrass “requires … less water .. than bermuda[grass].” I guess there’s not much fact-checking in golf industry magazines, but that egregious error would have been corrected had the article been fact-checked.
For example, have a look at bermudagrass and zoysiagrass supplied with the same amount of irrigation.1
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That’s after only 45 days with the restricted irrigation treatment, and it’s obvious that bermudagrass is requiring less water than zoysia.
And then a month later,2 bermudagrass is still green with limited irrigation, and at this point zoysia has “left the competition.”
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These grass performed the same with limited irrigation in Florida too.3
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