Cowgrass has many species. Mainly two leaves and 3 leaves. For home you use 3 leaves types shorter and fatter. Pearlgrass looks like cowgrass. When you look from far, you can mistaken pearlgrass for cowgrass.

Plus for Pearlgrass vs Cowgrass:
1. Pearlgrass is shorter, rounder and thicker leaves looks better than cowgrass.
2. Shorter means no need to trim

Plus for Cowgrass vs Pearlgrass:
1. Cowgrass is hardy, almost no dieases. Pearlgrass often has fungus infection.
2. Low maintenance, less water, nature will take care of cowgrass
3. Fast growing and spreading

Plus for Cowgrass over other types of grass:
1. Short, triming is only if the area is shaded, no sun the grass grows taller otherwise little triming.
2. May outgrow and compete with wild grass for space. Less picking of wild grass.
3. Less maintenance like watering and fertiliser.
4. Hardy, easy care and less infection even with damp or moist ground.

Con for Cowgrass:
1. Not as pretty as jap or phillipines grass or the likes of carpet grass or pearlgrass

Hope this helps.

This post has been edited by stevie8: Jun 20 2012, 08:57 PM

The grass grow taller at edges and at areas receive less sunlight. It is a kind of carpet grass as discussed here like philippines, Japan, Taiwan grass, etc.

That is the best you can get as the photo shows it receives partial sunlight. Unless full sunlight you will not get healty grown grass, short and compact. Also, there are patches, mean waterlog the grass cannot grow well there.

Grass need loose soil not hard or waterlog soil and plenty of water but water have to be drained by off by the soil itself. That is why ppl add a layer of sand. But too much sand the grass grow taller.

This post has been edited by stevie8: Jun 20 2012, 09:09 PM

You cant tell which type even on at actual site what's more this is photo.

If you dont pluck the weeds it will outgrow the grass. You have to do it weekly. the more often you pluck the less and easy it will be for you to pluck and fight it. If you leave it for months, habis, finished, gameover! Once the young weed seeds you will lose out or you have already lost the battle.

To make sure it grows on those empty patches, never step on these areas and water it once a day. Step on areas that have grass they will not die on you. People worry the grass will die so they step on the empty patches. Wrong!

Just make sure it does not flower and produce seeds. And for those crawling type of grass make very sure the root are pulled. There are thousand of seeds and new ones being flown carry by wind to your garden and bird shit that contains seeds. But most importantly are those already in the ground.

As long as your carpet grass grow healthy and compact it leave no room for other plants. There will be some and the only way is to pluck them before they flower and seed. When you see those with seeds do not leave them on the ground. Disposed them in plastic bag. You may not need to pluck these tiny ones if you choose to till next few days. Go for the big ones first. But make sure you come back in few days time's to pick them. If you cannot do the plucking carpet grass is not for you. Go for cowgrass. Even pearl grass a smaller short spieces of cowgrass you still need to pluck them. Cowgrass on the other hand can out grow others or be very competitive.

As I mentioned before, to pin point exactly where the holes are is to wait for heavy, really heavy rain and you can see areas that are flooded and you have to work under the rain just make sure there is no thunderstorm as it is dangerous. Fill up these low areas with the sands from one hole to another.

Simply scattered the sands wont work as you already have grass and the sand will not shift and move by gravity due to the grass leave and roots. If you think what your neighbor said can work you can try it out by simple do it on one small area to confirm my doubts. At the end of the day area you added sand will be higher, the areas you spray with water will not move unless you water shoot them and it will be empty by the shooting water pressure. The only way to shift and move added sands wtih grown grass is to flood it and disturb the sands with hands a small areas by areas.

Never heard of that.

There are 2 types of garbages. 1. kitchen waste garbage where the truck comes 3 times a week to pick up from your garbage bin. 2. Garden garbage. Grass is garden garbage and is usually collected by another contractor, not the kitchen waste contractor/worker you usually see. This contractor also take care of tress and sweep the street.

You can leave the grass in the bag on the road side. Some day some one will collect it, like once a week. It is ok it does not smell.

If nothing happen, make a complaint to the local government or local council. where are you staying? If PJ MPPJ, Ampang MPAJ, KL Bandaraya KL....

They have websites that you can make complaints and they will reply you with official letter posted to your home address. Google MPSJ www.mpsj.gov.my , for example and look for "aduan" and write your complaints.

Fake. Glass cant grow as perfectly as this under little or no sunlight.

Water every evening after the sun goes down. Or early morning or both, that's all you need to do.

Do you have other plants around? Remove them.

Grass need a lot of sunlight to grow well too.

Patches that are not growing, try loosen the soil. Do not step on the empty patches. step on the grass if you must.

It is never easy to maintain grass.

For water retention, just level the ground. Water once a day in the morning is sufficient and no need to water when it is raining season.

When there are patches it could be due to un-uniform layer of top soil aslo. or the layer of good soil is thin at the affected areas. To ready have a nice growing grass is to dig and remove the top soil and top up with 1 foot or 1/2 foot of new soil. If you dont do that and if the ground is not level and you place the new grass on top of it, the patch of grass on the high side will lose its original soil to lower ground areas over months. As the high areas losses the soil the grass dies.

None! Hahaha...even fake will be dug up. Dogs just want to bury bones

You can make divider and hide away from sight and remove whenever necessary in future.

Using tiles, wall tile is thinner and easier to cut. Use a glass cutter cut 3 to 4 inches wide (as depth) many pieces and plant into the line where you want to divide. With the tiles 3-4 inches underground, the grass root will not able to spread underground to the other side. The tile is buried underground and just a little (few mm) of its top expose above ground. As the grass grow you can pull up a bit so that the top grass will not cross to the other side too.

Cow grass cheap and grow faster. You can bring a cow and trim too.

Yes, no joke. The cow will not pull the grass out. The cow actually trim with teeth, not killing the grass. And cow like this type of grass and same time the cow will fertilize the grass too.

What kind of topsoil you are talking about?

Jap grass is the most beautiful of all. But will it get a lot of sun? If not it will not grow well. Growing well means grow very compact or dense and short. If little sun then it will grow loosely and long and dying.

The correct way of growing grass is a good quality top soil and below sand and then clay. Top soil is mixed of clay, sand and humus or old soil from top layer of soil anywhere you dig from jungle, field. But there are problem with such top soil arrangement at the top especially for growing the type of beautiful grass we want, basically the grass cannot compete with other wild plant and weed. what's more you intend to plant the slowest growing grass, the Jap grass!

The "top soil" is suspicious as it contains hell of of wild seeds. Moreover it is expensive. So, the economical way and effective way of planting grass is you should not have top soil at all. That is only clay (yellow, orangie or red mud, you can find abundance here in our country and most are free of seeds) at the bottom and sand on top. Such layering ensure there are insufficient sunlight to stimulate the seed from germinate. One forumer suggest to have a layer of newspaper is a good idea. Eventually the top soil will have on its own from trimmed grass. Of course Jap grass need no trimming.

If your area is small you can manage pulling every day, otherwise get a big pot or wok and steam and cook the top soil at 100 degree C and sure you kill all the wild seeds.

hmm... lot of sun means no shade, no tree, no building but that is full sun. Lot of sun means more than half day during day time. So can assume minimum half day sun. 6 hrs? you are right.

Where to find cow la Just kidding

I read that also. Some one posted it here. Is there is such thing? I doubt. If there is such herbicide kills weeds effectively and does not kill plants/grass, it should has been so popular and most of us would have known and the company or representative would have promoted it and make sales here.

Japanese grass grows short and compact you should not have lot of weeds since it is difficult for weeds to compete with a well grown compact jap grass.

The jap grass name is zoysia japonica. This type of grass can stand salt. You can mix salt with water and spray on your lawn and that will inhibit weeds grow.

When there are too many weeds you can't them pull all in a week. When you cant pull all in a week new ones germinate everyday and you cannot be pulling everyday. The better way is to trim the already short jap grass a bit shorter (but not too short weaken the grass) so as to trim away the weed's top. Weed when it grows taller than grass only then can thrive and compete against yr jap grass. By trimming you inhibit the competitiveness of the weeds. Also you are in a way trimming away the weeds heads with seeds. The un-matured seed will not germinate.

This is how you help your jap grass win over weeds. There is no easy way by just herbicide killing all type of weeds not grass. Hope this help.