Our new lawn is in. It looks great. It was a lot of work, but it looks so much better.
After I wrote about the lawn last we really didn’t have much time to work on it. We did decide to go with Palmetto St. Augustine. It is one of the newer varieties and popular in the South. Compared to the Raleigh (the basic kind) it is a little more expensive (we payed $135 per pallet), but also a little less course and a little more green. We had it delivered this morning. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.
All day yesterday we all worked at prepping the yard. I mean all day and all of us. Amber, Wesley, Jillian and I were out more or less nonstop from 7:30a until after dark. We turned the soil more, graded it properly, added fertilizer high in phosphorous (for root development) and then did the final clean up. We rented a water drum roller from Home Depot. You fill the drum with water (half full in our case) and roll it across the soil to pack is slightly. It really helps show any uneven surfaces so you can fix them before laying the sod.
It wasn’t all hard work though.
The sod showed up this morning at about 8:00a. Wesley liked the forklift they used to take the pallets off the truck. It only took the guy about 2 minutes to park the truck and drop off the two pallets we needed.
Laying the grass took a few hours. About half the day actually. It was rather rewarding though. We sorted through the sod (much of it was sort of falling apart or didn’t have an even level of dirt attached) and then layed in a brick pattern (you don’t want he edges to line up in straight lines). After the grass was in we rolled it again with the drum roller to ensure good contact with the soil. Then we watered the heck out of it. And then watered it some more.
