Building a beautiful healthy lawn from start. to finish

Building a beautiful lawn starts with a clean grade and closely pieced together sod. Above St. Augustine sod. A well-laid lawn, with no overlapping edges, requires no rolling.

Replacing an existing lawn with sod.

• Mow first if necessary, and clean off excess material.
• Treat the area with Round-up.  Wait 7-10 days, spray again if all is not dead, before removal.
• Use a sod cutter, remove the dead sod.  Establish a grade.
• With the use of Round-up, you will gain control of weeds and grasses, besides when you sod cut, the material you will remove will be so much lighter.
• Establish a good grade
• Check the sprinklers for proper distribution. See blog here: 'How good is your irrigation.'
• After grading, wait 2-3 weeks, then spray again, as you see new leaves breaking the surface.
• You may start sodding the next day.  
• Contract with a professional lawn spray company.
• Start Verticutting the first year.

Replacing with grass plugs. Big savings.

Seville St. Augustine

• Mow first if necessary, and clean off excess material.
• Treat the area with Round-up.  Wait 7-10 days, spray again if all is not dead.
• Leave the dead lawn as a mulch bed for the new grass, as the plugs grow, the dead will disappear.
• Spray again before plugging and wait for at least one hr.
• Just heed my advice, the goal of grass plugs is to save money.  But if you don't have a proper fertilization, insect, fungus, and weed control program at least the first three months, you may be wasting your money.
• Start Verticutting the first year.
• Just remember the closer you put the plugs the faster they will fill in.

For free estimates in Tampa Bay contact: whyverticutting@gmail.com
 Or contact York: 727-455-7337