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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can install in April, of course. Landscapers are not gardeners. They're people who profit off people's ignorance of gardening to make a profit. Just make sure to water CONSTANTLY. Otherwise your grass won't take.[/quote]

It often won't take even if you do it all right. I wouldn't consider sod unless I had a sprinkler system or a very, very small yard. I'm an experienced gardener and I have a hard time getting sod to live and I'm retired. I've seen neighbors pay to have their lawns scraped and replaced with sod and watched it fail. We've been in drought for the last how ever many years and with constant high temps, you can't stay on top of watering it well enough unless you have a sprinkler system.

I wouldn't consider sod now with the temps we are seeing. Get a big bag of coated seed and start throwing it down everywhere and water when you can. Some of it will take. One trick is to always put down grass seed before we get more than a little snow. [/quote]

I said much of the same above. In fact, I replaced a bad patch with a couple pieces of sod this spring, watered them a bit and they benefitted from a couple good rainstorms, and one of the pieces is still brown and failing. I didn't baby them because my sprinklers turn on next week, and I'll just try again. But it would have been a disaster if it was an entire lawn.

Also, very good and not well-known tip. Seeding when it snows can be a good, though counterintuitive, practice. When the snow melts, it sucks the seed down into the soil where it's primed to germinate when the temps turn.[/quote]

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