Steps to a Healthy Lawn

Step 1

 Ensuring you have chosen the right grass for your lawn is the first step to a healthy lawn.

Is your area to be grassed in the sun or shade?

• Certain grasses grow better/worse in sun or shade.

Do you have irrigation?

• Some grasses like water and others are more drought resistant.
  

Are you going to care for your grass or hire someone?

• Each grass requires some level of care besides mowing.

Step 2
Make sure soil is prepped which includes:

• Removing all debris, old roots, sticks, rocks, etc.
• Add topsoil or organic fertilizer for proper nutrition.
• Level with a rake
• Dampen the prepped soil prior to laying sod
  

Step 3

The day the sod is laid, hand water, saturating your new sod until it is soaked.

Step 4 

For the first two to three weeks, water every day for 30-45 minutes in the morning around 7am, and then again in the afternoon around 6:00 p.m. for 30-45 minutes. 

Step 5 

Continue watering daily until the initial mowing. two weeks, drop the irrigation cycle to normal watering schedule to