Speed, Choice, and Straightforward Maintenance
Sod's major advantages over seed is speed. From soil planning to final layout, it's possible to set up a modest-sized sod lawn in one day. That's an desirable thought: dust and weeds in the morning and a green lawn in the evening! Sod has other features to recommend it, too.
Guaranteed Choice
If you buy sod from a reputable local grower, you are assured to get a grass that develops well in your area. The gardener may provide many selections, from low to high servicing, for example. Also, some improved kinds, such as 'Tifgreen' Bermuda, are available only as sod.
Usefulness
You can place sod at nearly any time of year, even when the soil is slightly freezing or during the heat of summer (although you'll need to water more in summer). In comparability, only spring and fall offer adequately positive situations for sowing most seed lawns, although late spring is good for seeding heat-lovers such as Bermuda and buffalo grasses.
Sleek Start
Yes, you'll have to baby a new sod lawn for a couple of weeks, but that's far less time and effort than for a seeded lawn. Until new sod confirms roots in the soil, it needs watering twice a day, and sometimes more often, during hot weather. In comparison, keeping a newly seeded lawn moist may need a dozen watering a day.
Fewer Weeds
New sod lawns undergo only slightly from weed invasions. Most soils contain many weed seeds that are just waiting around for the prospect to grow, and right after you prepare and amend soil, sow grass seed, and supply water, weed-growth circumstances are the best. Unless you've taken steps to remove or reduce weed seeds in the soil before planting, weeds may overrun a seeded lawn.
Special Uses for Sod
Sod is especially valuable where patches of lawn have become bare, weedy, or broken. Winter use of street salt in northern regions is one major cause of damage. After getting rid of the threadbare turf and preparing the soil for planting, you can purchase a roll or two of sod at a garden center and place it over the area. Again, a seeded lawn would consider numerous weeks to load in and look lush.
Sod's major advantages over seed is speed. From soil planning to final layout, it's possible to set up a modest-sized sod lawn in one day. That's an desirable thought: dust and weeds in the morning and a green lawn in the evening! Sod has other features to recommend it, too.
Guaranteed Choice
If you buy sod from a reputable local grower, you are assured to get a grass that develops well in your area. The gardener may provide many selections, from low to high servicing, for example. Also, some improved kinds, such as 'Tifgreen' Bermuda, are available only as sod.
Usefulness
You can place sod at nearly any time of year, even when the soil is slightly freezing or during the heat of summer (although you'll need to water more in summer). In comparability, only spring and fall offer adequately positive situations for sowing most seed lawns, although late spring is good for seeding heat-lovers such as Bermuda and buffalo grasses.
Sleek Start
Yes, you'll have to baby a new sod lawn for a couple of weeks, but that's far less time and effort than for a seeded lawn. Until new sod confirms roots in the soil, it needs watering twice a day, and sometimes more often, during hot weather. In comparison, keeping a newly seeded lawn moist may need a dozen watering a day.
Fewer Weeds
New sod lawns undergo only slightly from weed invasions. Most soils contain many weed seeds that are just waiting around for the prospect to grow, and right after you prepare and amend soil, sow grass seed, and supply water, weed-growth circumstances are the best. Unless you've taken steps to remove or reduce weed seeds in the soil before planting, weeds may overrun a seeded lawn.
Special Uses for Sod
Sod is especially valuable where patches of lawn have become bare, weedy, or broken. Winter use of street salt in northern regions is one major cause of damage. After getting rid of the threadbare turf and preparing the soil for planting, you can purchase a roll or two of sod at a garden center and place it over the area. Again, a seeded lawn would consider numerous weeks to load in and look lush.
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