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Lawn & Sod Blog

DIY videos about lawn care and sodding

SPF30 is a hybridized bluegrass that combines the turf quality characteristics of Kentucky bluegrass and the drought tolerance of Texas bluegrass.

SPF30 Texas Hybrid Sod

Blue heelers love to resting on bluegrass lawns. High concentrations of nitrogen present in the ammonia component of your dog’s urine damages your lawn and create dog spots.

Dog Gone Dog Spots

Soil preparation is the best way to use less water in your lawn before sodding.

Save Water, Soil Prep

Rain and snow have a lower pH and makes it easier for your lawn to get the nutrients it needs from fertilizer.

Dinner and a Drink, (fertilizer + precipitation)

Cool-season turf grasses grow roots in the spring.

Growing Roots this Spring

Combat grassy weeds in your yard with a spring application of pre-emergent herbicides.

CONTROL SPRING CRABGRASS

Spring snow blankets Green Valley Turf Co. in Littleton, Colorado.

Thanks for the Snow

Spring is the best time to sod because the root systems of grasses start growing activity.

Spring Sodding

Gray snow mold is commonly found in yards in north facing areas where snow has been in the spring.

Gray Snow Mold

Dormant sod roots slowly over the winter.

Sodding in the Winter

Rusty Wilkins, owner and founder of Green Valley Turf Co is the GreenCo Person of the Year for 2012.

GreenCo Person of the Year

Voles make tunnels in your lawn when it is covered with snow and damage it.

CONTROL THE VOLE

Brown spots appear in newly sodded yards due to a lack of water.

BROWN SPOTS?

Your lawn is too wet if you have Mushrooms.

MUSHROOMS & YOUR LAWN

Dandelions and other broad leaf weeds are in full bloom in spring due to warmer soil temperatures.

DANDELION TIME

Your lawn needs to be fertilized after winter dormancy.

SPRING FEED N-P-K

Core aeration opens up the ground and allows air to get into the root system of your lawn.

PULL SOME PLUGS

Check your sprinklers heads when you turn on you sprinkler system in the spring.

SPRING INTO IRRIGATION