Zoysia: the dense one that hates being rushed.

Zoysia gives you the carpet — a slow-spreading, tightly knit turf that crowds weeds better than anything else once established. The trade: it wakes up three to four weeks after Bermuda and wants half the nitrogen. Feed zoysia like Bermuda in March and you're mostly fertilizing the winter weeds growing above it.

So its program runs the Bermuda calendar at lower volume: a light first feed only, the first full nitrogen after complete green-up in May, roughly 2–2.5 lb N per 1,000 sq ft across the season, and no late-fall nitrogen — zoysia heading into dormancy fed is zoysia flirting with winterkill and spring disease.

Its one maintenance quirk is thatch: that same density builds a spongy layer faster than Bermuda does. Periodic dethatching or aeration keeps water and product reaching the soil — we'll tell you when your lawn is due rather than selling it on a schedule.