Heavy Foot Traffic | GrassMats (2024)

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How to protect a lawn from foot traffic? ›

Enjoy a high-quality rubber mat that will protect the people outdoors at your home or business, your property, and your lawn. Excess foot traffic has the potential to damage the roots in your grass, hinder nutrients from absorbing into your lawn, and prevent your grass from growing.

JaMur Zoysia grass and TifTuf Bermuda grass are ideal for a high-traffic property. They grow lush and soft under bare feet and quickly recover from damage. Zeon Zoysia grass is another great option, especially if parts of your lawn are shaded.

Zoysia grass is another warm-season variety known for its excellent tolerance to foot traffic, owing to its dense growth habit. It forms a dense carpet of grass with light to medium green blades, and while it prefers full sun, it can also manage in light shade.

Step-by-step guide: Step 1: Prepare your topsoil mixture by combining equal parts of topsoil and sand. Step 2: Spread the prepared soil mix over the divots and sunken areas in your lawn. Step 3: Use a shovel to remove excess soil and create a level surface for high spots or bumps.

Bermuda and Zoysia are what I call “alpha grasses” meaning they are very aggressive and work hard to take new ground. They do this by spreading wide through “runners” that creep across the surface and just below ground, sending new shoots of growth upward. These runners are called stolons and rhizomes.

Perennial ryegrass is used for the very toughest applications, premiership football pitches, showgrounds, racetracks etc. Over recent years, new varieties of amenity perennial ryegrass have been cultivated to produce finer leaves in order to produce attractive, lush green lawns.

Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis)

Meet Kentucky Bluegrass, a durable and beautiful cool-season grass. This popular, fast-growing, fast healing, thick grass is up to the challenge of your dog's racing paws. It grows well in most climates and does very well in colder areas.

What is the disadvantage of zoysia grass? ›

Often, the lawn will stay brown well into Spring, which is a deal breaker for some. So, if year-round color is necessary for you, you may want to think twice before choosing zoysia grass. Zoysia will not tolerate heavy traffic during these dormant periods. Another negative is the very poor shade tolerance under trees.

Zoysia grass is an excellent choice if you live in an area with hot, dry summers and want a low-maintenance lawn. Bermuda grass, on the other hand, is ideal if you want a durable, high-traffic lawn that establishes quickly.

Zoysia is ideal because it actually grows differently. It sends out runners or "stolons," expanding sideways more than it grows tall. This is why it is so dense and effective at choking out most summer weeds and replacing existing grass.

Simple - put things along the edge of your lawn that cars definitely don't want to drive over, such as smallish boulders/rocks that will HURT the car - then paint them white so they have no excuse to miss them next to the green!