Sod Installations
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SOD INSTALLATIONS
Why sod?
North Carolina summers can be tough on lawns. Sod for your property is a great solution for yards. Installing sod is a great alternative to seeding and can turn a rough landscape or a select patchy area into a brand new lawn in as little as one day.
The benefits:
For newly built homes, sod can be a quick way to transform a barren landscape into a gorgeous lawn that looks like it has been established for years. For existing homeowners, sod provides you the option to put down a fresh, lush, green carpet to blanket your yard. The process is fast and results in polished looking yard.
Turf Options
We recommend the following types of sod as the best options for a lawn in North Carolina. For an even more personalized approach, ask our technicians which type will do best at your property.
TifTuf Bermuda
This is the most aggressively self-repairing Bermuda grass. It can repair itself up to two times faster than other self-repairing grasses. It lives up to its name in impressive physical durability, chemical, cold, and shade resistance, while exhibiting great drought tolerance characteristics. It requires less than 40% of the water as compared to Fescue.
Fescue
Is a southern version of what many consider to be the “Classic American Lawn.” Fescue requires more water, care, and maintenance than other grasses in North Carolina, but in return, it offers a green lawn year-round with the proper care. Fescue is a great choice for shady areas (it can easily survive in areas with 4 hours of sunlight or longer periods of filtered shade).
Zoysia
“Leisure Time Zoysia” is the most popular Zoysia grass we install. It has an impressive chemical tolerance (reducing damage from “dog spots”). It is the most shade-tolerant warm-season grass (flourishing on a minimum of 4 hours of direct sunlight). It is self-repairing, slow-growing, dense, and beautiful.
Zenith Zoysia
A warm-season turfgrass with a fine leaf texture. It feels soft and has a dark green emerald color. This grass is wear and traffic-tolerant and recovers well from damage. It grows in full sun or partial shade. It tolerates both winter and heat. Commonly found in places such as residential lawns, condos, hotels, businesses, and golf courses.
Zeon Zoysia
A warm-season turfgrass with a fine leaf texture. It feels soft and has a dark green emerald color. This grass is wear and traffic-tolerant and recovers well from damage. It grows in full sun or partial shade. It tolerates both winter and heat. Commonly found in places such as residential lawns, condos, hotels, businesses, and golf courses.
The Installation Process
Remove the old turf and weeds from the area where we will be planting the new grass.
Prepare the area by removing large rocks and other debris.
Blend the native dirt and add additional soil and other nutrients to give the roots a fertile base to grow.
Finish grading the area by hand with rakes for greater precision and control.
Post-Installation: Watering
Set up regular watering on a routine schedule to encourage initial root growth and establish a healthy root system. Curious about the perfect watering schedule? When choosing the type of lawn to install, we will give you the best watering schedule for every lawn type.
Watering proper amounts is crucial to the health of your lawn, especially just after an installation. Depending on the time of year, prepare yourself to water your newly installed turf a lot.
Need a consistent way to water your property? Check out our irrigation services; we offer new system installation and year-round maintenance packages.
Sod vs. Seed
Since North Carolina summers are so hot, seed has to be put down at just the right time of year to establish its root system. Since sod is already grown, it has more forgiveness for the time of year installed and can be a great addition, under certain conditions, almost year-round.
Preventing Erosion
Since sod is only installed when it is fully-matured, it can immediately begin preventing erosion of your soil from storms, especially on hills and slopes.
Fast Solution
Most home projects can be completed in just a matter of days and at almost any time during the year. If weather conditions are right, a yard can even be used for active use within a matter of weeks.
Added Value
Many houses on the market can sell more quickly and for higher prices with a better-looking yard. The ease of adding sod and the time it takes can often be a great solution when selling a house.
Requires Less Water
When installed, sod requires about half the amount of water that seeding does. With water at such a premium during certain seasons in North Carolina, this is often a great advantage for getting a lawn to establish its root system.
“The new sod is looking great, and we are happy with the lawn. We have had 4-5 neighbors stop by and tell us how good the lawn looks.”
— Sam | Holly Springs, NC
