Sod

[Hawkeye OG]

Just moved into a new house on 4/15/16. My builder went ahead and laid sod on 4/8/16 and kept it watered for the most part. About 6 weeks in and the majority of my yard looks great, but there are pieces around the edge of my yard and the four corners that still look a little dead and no doubt get the least amount of water because they are the hardest to reach. I'm also starting to notice that parts of my front yard are showing some distress. It's been a good month for rain, but I still have to supplement it and water it a couple times a week to get to 1 in of water. Does anyone here have any experience with sod? Any recommendations on a lawn program or a way to help bring back the edges and corners of my yard?

 

[NCChiFan]

Just moved into a new house on 4/15/16. My builder went ahead and laid sod on 4/8/16 and kept it watered for the most part. About 6 weeks in and the majority of my yard looks great, but there are pieces around the edge of my yard and the four corners that still look a little dead and no doubt get the least amount of water because they are the hardest to reach. I'm also starting to notice that parts of my front yard are showing some distress. It's been a good month for rain, but I still have to supplement it and water it a couple times a week to get to 1 in of water. Does anyone here have any experience with sod? Any recommendations on a lawn program or a way to help bring back the edges and corners of my yard?

Obviously, the corners were too stressed, lack of water but also, the air/heat getting at the edges not protected by grass next to it. Let your yard get good and established, then at a future point, you can hit those edges with one of the pre mix, fertilizer/soil/seed all in one. Keep it moist, you'll be good. Make sure you cut the old bad (dead) sod out with a knife as Sod is usually held together with a netting material.

 

[Ares]

Just moved into a new house on 4/15/16. My builder went ahead and laid sod on 4/8/16 and kept it watered for the most part. About 6 weeks in and the majority of my yard looks great, but there are pieces around the edge of my yard and the four corners that still look a little dead and no doubt get the least amount of water because they are the hardest to reach. I'm also starting to notice that parts of my front yard are showing some distress. It's been a good month for rain, but I still have to supplement it and water it a couple times a week to get to 1 in of water. Does anyone here have any experience with sod? Any recommendations on a lawn program or a way to help bring back the edges and corners of my yard?

Murder the dude who sodded ur lawn and demand that his Widow re-sod the dead parts.

 

[BearFanJohn]

Obviously, the corners were too stressed, lack of water but also, the air/heat getting at the edges not protected by grass next to it. Let your yard get good and established, then at a future point, you can hit those edges with one of the pre mix, fertilizer/soil/seed all in one. Keep it moist, you'll be good. Make sure you cut the old bad (dead) sod out with a knife as Sod is usually held together with a netting material.

I've sodded a couple of yards and this is exactly right. If you don't have absolute full coverage (water) then what doesn't get watered enough will stress out and/or die.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Murder the dude who sodded ur lawn and demand that his Widow re-sod the dead parts.

Between the stress of moving and having a half dead lawn when I moved in, I was almost at that point lol, but I put a lot of water down on it and it greened right up besides the edges.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Obviously, the corners were too stressed, lack of water but also, the air/heat getting at the edges not protected by grass next to it. Let your yard get good and established, then at a future point, you can hit those edges with one of the pre mix, fertilizer/soil/seed all in one. Keep it moist, you'll be good. Make sure you cut the old bad (dead) sod out with a knife as Sod is usually held together with a netting material.

How long do I wait til I give up and cut it out? Slowly there is some grass in the corners that are popping up and you can see it, but I can still pull up the sod in some parts which would imply to me that it is dead and not dormat. Will putting fertilizer down help or does that put it at risk of burning it up?

 

[Omeletpants]

Rich people's problems

 

[Ares]

Rich people's problems

I thought you were rich Mr. Salesman

 

[Urblock]

He forgot.

 

[Omeletpants]

I thought you were rich Mr. Salesman

Doesn't happen wasting money on sod.

When I was a kid we didnt have sod. We had to scratch the ground with a stick and drop seed

 

[Ares]

Doesn't happen wasting money on sod.

When I was a kid we didnt have sod. We had to scratch the ground with a stick and drop seed

You had sticks... look at Mr. Fancypants here with his sticks and seeds.

 

[Crystallas]

Well if some sod took and the rest didn't....

[video=youtube;ui2qnOUj6Ec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2qnOUj6Ec[/video]

Not suggesting you do everything like the video. But it can give you ideas to salvage the lawn. I've adapted these basic ideas into fixing my lawn after years of pet and pest damage + sod that wouldn't take, regardless of watering, and now everything is beyond perfect.

 

[number51]

Doesn't happen wasting money on sod.

When I was a kid we didnt have sod. We had to scratch the ground with a stick and drop seed

I'll bet you did.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

Doesn't happen wasting money on sod.

When I was a kid we didnt have sod. We had to scratch the ground with a stick and drop seed

When you were a kid shovels and rakes weren't invented.

 

[Urblock]

Just moved into a new house on 4/15/16. My builder went ahead and laid sod on 4/8/16 and kept it watered for the most part. About 6 weeks in and the majority of my yard looks great, but there are pieces around the edge of my yard and the four corners that still look a little dead and no doubt get the least amount of water because they are the hardest to reach. I'm also starting to notice that parts of my front yard are showing some distress. It's been a good month for rain, but I still have to supplement it and water it a couple times a week to get to 1 in of water. Does anyone here have any experience with sod? Any recommendations on a lawn program or a way to help bring back the edges and corners of my yard?

Tell your builder to have it fixed. I'm in a different field but if something goes wrong in the first year it's on me.

 

[Monster]

When in Iraq we had a dog that hung around we called Dirt.
Had a litter and was killed.
We kept one pup and named it Sod.
Son of Dirt.

 

[NCChiFan]

How long do I wait til I give up and cut it out? Slowly there is some grass in the corners that are popping up and you can see it, but I can still pull up the sod in some parts which would imply to me that it is dead and not dormat. Will putting fertilizer down help or does that put it at risk of burning it up?

If he put it down correctly, there should be fertilizer and lime perhaps under it already. Sod is pretty inexpensive, $2.00 a roll, at least my way. You could hit the sod farm toss a few rolls in the trunk, cut out bad areas, fill in, but make sure you water it well this time? While at the Sod Farm, I bet they have a, "how to take care of your new lawn" sheet for your area.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Tell your builder to have it fixed. I'm in a different field but if something goes wrong in the first year it's on me.

Yes, I have a two year warranty on basically everything so this may be a route I take.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

If he put it down correctly, there should be fertilizer and lime perhaps under it already. Sod is pretty inexpensive, $2.00 a roll, at least my way. You could hit the sod farm toss a few rolls in the trunk, cut out bad areas, fill in, but make sure you water it well this time? While at the Sod Farm, I bet they have a, "how to take care of your new lawn" sheet for your area.

The builder laid it 10 days before we closed because the finance company didn't want to escrow it. The house was far enough away from me that I couldn't go over there every day to make sure enough water was put down, unfortunately. Throwing down some new sod may be the way to go if its the cheap. Thanks.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Rich people's problems

Amazing what a little hard work will get you.