How To Care Your Sod Lawn

By Maxie Feret


Establishing your brand-new sod lawn is relatively easy. Sod will need to be laid on dry dirt within a day of when it is delivered. If temperature is over 80 degrees, water the dirt from the previous day to decrease the soil heat. It's best not to over water making sure that you or the workers are not doing your job in the mud. Immediately, following the sod is fitted the first watering will ideally drench the sod and hydrate the soil. All you need to do is water often and stay off. Remember to keep the lawn moistened continuously; if possible, do it with frequent short sprinklings. Water the sod a couple of times a day at 8AM early in the morning and 1PM early in the afternoon if the temperature is less than 95. The sprinkling procedure needs to be repeated thrice a day during the hottest months of the season, 95 plus, at approximately 8 AM, 11AM and 1PM daily. DON'T LET THE LAWN DRY OUT!!! Remember the key is to KEEP IT MOIST, NOT SOAKED. Sinking causes algae and fungus.

Watering is most effective if done during morning hours time, three to four in the morning, when sunlight and also heat cannot cause excessive evaporation. After your lawn becomes established, it will take approximately one inch of water every week, an inch alternate a day, throughout the heat of the summer. Spring and fall may only require a couple of times weekly watering, according to climatic conditions. Cut water back during the winter season, at times your lawn will only require watering once or twice a month, depending on weather conditions. The soil must be drenched through when watered. Water should penetrate at the very least 6 inches into your soil to make sure deep rooting. When your lawn needs water, it will turn from bright green to blue or gray-green.

Commercial fertilizer needs to be applied ahead before laying the sod for a price of one pound per 150 square feet. This use of fertilizer should provide the nutrients to give the sod a proper start. An extra use of fertilizer should be applied again every 6-8 weeks. We propose an all-purpose fertilizer like triple 15 or 16. Lawns usually do not need feeding during December or January. Remember when you see a lawn that seems great, it's because the owner did quick and easy things with consistency, proper watering, mowing, and fertilizing and weed control.

A whole new sod lawn must be mowed for the first time between 10-14 days. Delaying the very first cutting permits too much shading, blade widening and possible sunburn. Set your mower at its highest setting, lowering a setting each mowing till the lawn is cut at two inches. Never get rid of more than one-third of the blade length at any mowing. Weekly mowing is essential during the growing season. Lawn mower blades should always be kept sharp to avoid bruised and torn grass which develops unsightly white blade tops.

Weeds will appear within your new lawn. They are presented from seeds which have lain dormant in the ground or that have been taken in by wind or birds. These weeds can best be controlled by growing good healthy grass. Grass which is well watered, mowed, and well fertilized provides an excessive amount of competition for weed plants in order to gain any stronghold. However, there are actually chemical remedies which will be able to help whenever your lawn has matured, usually after 3 mowings. Weed -B-Gon for broad leaf and Weed-hoe for grassy weeds for example. Pre-emergent is necessary to hold crabgrass, spurge and approximately 35 other weeds out of your lawn. Treatment must be applied the primary part of February and again in mid May on a yearly basis. Should your lawn ever become damaged and have bare spots, reseed or sod immediately to prevent competing weed growth from becoming established.




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