Sources
Every outside figure on this site comes from one of the pages below, each read on November 13, 2026. Thai farm prices come from the farms' own websites. Growing advice comes from university turf programs and from the farms that grow this grass in Thailand. The sentences are our own.
What Thai sod farms publish
- 1ไร่หญ้าชมพูนุช (Chompoonuch sod farm), home page: price list (Japanese grass 12 to 15 baht per square meter), sheet size, truck loads, delivery by distance, cutting and delivery routine, care after laying, and a table comparing grasses. https://zoysiagrassfarm.com/
- 2ร้านขายหญ้า (a Thai sod seller), ราคาหญ้าวันนี้, "today's grass prices": Japanese grass 13 to 16 baht per square meter; two sheets of 100 by 50 cm to the square meter; prices rise and fall. https://www.xn--e3cxy8ah4bd7p.com/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%8D%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89/
- 3ณัฐพลไร่หญ้า (Nattapon sod farm), หญ้าญี่ปุ่น, its page on Japanese grass: 15 baht per square meter, with notes on shade, soil, water, wear and mowing. https://www.xn--e3cfi9bzal7b4bp0pubo.com/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%8D%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8D%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B8%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%99
- 4ไร่หญ้าสำราญ (Samraan sod farm), หญ้าญี่ปุ่น, its product page for Japanese grass: 16 baht per square meter, no minimum order, full sun all day, stands up to trampling. https://www.raiyasamraan.com/product/7/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%8D%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8D%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B8%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%99
Turf science in Thailand and the tropics
- 5Micah Woods, Asian Turfgrass Center, "Sodding highway median strips with zoysia." Published November 14, 2020; last updated May 20, 2026. https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/sodding-miles-of-road-median-with-zoysia/
- 6Greg Wiecko, University of Guam, College of Natural & Applied Sciences, "Zoysia Lawns" (April 2017). https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/wptrc/Zoysia-Lawns-4_19_17.pdf
- 7Greg Wiecko, University of Guam, Western Pacific Tropical Research Center, Turfgrass Series FS-009-21, "Watering for residential lawns" (2021). https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/wptrc/turf_series9.pdf
- 8Greg Wiecko, University of Guam, Western Pacific Tropical Research Center, Turfgrass Series FS-008-21, "Mowing: how high and how often?" (February 2021). https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/wptrc/Turfseries8.pdf
- 9Masanori Mitsuchi, Pichai Wichaidit and Saeree Jeungnijnirund, "Soils of the Northeast Plateau, Thailand," Technical Bulletin of the Tropical Agriculture Research Center No. 25 (1989). https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/techtarc/25/1
- 10Government Public Relations Department of Thailand, "The Seasons of Thailand." https://thailand.go.th/issue-focus-detail/009_142
Laying and keeping a zoysia lawn
- 11Jay McCurdy and Barry Stewart, Mississippi State University Extension, Publication 2951, "Sod Installation and Maintenance." https://extension.msstate.edu/publications/sod-installation-and-maintenance
- 12Brad S. Fresenburg, University of Missouri Extension, G6706, "Establishment and Care of Zoysiagrass Lawns." https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g6706
- 13Missouri Botanical Garden, Gardening Help, "How do I sod a cool-season lawn?" Written for cooler-climate grasses; used here only for how sheets are placed and pressed down. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/gardening-help-faqs/question/326/how-do-i-sod-a-cool-season-lawn
- 14Jackie Jordan, revised by LayLa Burgess, Clemson Cooperative Extension Home & Garden Information Center, HGIC 1227, "Topdressing a Home Lawn" (September 2020). https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/topdressing-a-home-lawn/
Measures and names
- 15Wikipedia, "Rai, ngan, and tarang wa": the Thai land units, defined as exactly 1,600, 400 and 4 square meters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai,_ngan,_and_tarang_wa
- 16Wikipedia, "Zoysia japonica": the grass known as Japanese lawngrass, Korean lawngrass or zoysia grass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoysia_japonica
Our own record
- 17The lawn photographs on this site are our own, taken at our house in Surin province in March and April 2026. Where a caption gives a date and time, the camera recorded it. Photographs that reached us without camera data carry no date.
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