Thank God I only have a small area. Barely 5 feet by 50 feet. I hired a gardener one morning to dig up all the old grass, but they just use a cangkul and hacked off the top layer of soil together with the wild grass. I didn't use any weed killer.

I got my contractor to bring over a truck load of sand to level the place, then I bought 10 pieces (1 feet x 2 feet) of "Japan" grass (finer than Philippine grass) from Sg Buloh.

The gardener teared off pieces and planted the grass in the sand spread out.

It's been 3 weeks now. Got wild grass grow here and there, and I dig them out together with the roots as I see them. I think "mostly", the wild grass was killed, but some are coming out and the roots go real deep.

The new grass seems to be growing well. I guess it will take half a year at least to cover the whole garden evenly. Need to go look for this grass fertiliser.

I don't mind this weeding. It's quite relaxing. Can spend 15 minutes every day, and pull out maybe 7-8 weeds? Also, get to enjoy my little garden patch also. haha.

I don't think I can cope with 20x70 sized garden.

I bought at RM5 per 1x2 feet piece. I only bought 10 and planted little patches around my garden.

They are growing well now and their roots are taking into the ground and new shoots are growing outwards, but I can't estimate how long it will take to completely fill the garden evenly.

I should've taken photos so I can have a time lapse view of the grass growing.

I don't really know what Japanese grass is. That's what the guy told me anyway. When I was buying the grass, the "Japanese" grass looks finer than the Philippine grass that they were also selling.

The next door nursery was charging RM18 per piece for Japanese grass. Each piece was really full of grass. I guess no one buy from them so their Japanese grass really had a lot of time to grow. Besides the "fullness", I couldn't tell the difference between the grass I bought and the more expensive grass next door.

BTW, I just found out Japanese/Philippine grass is called zoysia grass.

You have to water the newly laid grass everyday for a couple of weeks at least because the roots have not taken yet.