🏈 Everyone’s favorite summer topic. The grass at BDS.

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[It Takes Eleven]

It'll go nice with our white helmets and crimson pants.

 

[TerryP]

It'll go nice with our white helmets and crimson pants.

Nice image. Looks good.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

 

[PurlJam]

Columbian or Acapulco Gold ?...... oh wait.

 

[OldPlayer]

Is August really the best time to lay down sod?

 

[BamaFan334]

I hope we never go with the artificial turf. It'll be such a shame if we do. One thing I always enjoyed at Bobby Dodd was the real grass, and they went fake and ruined that aspect of the game for me.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Never been my favorite subject!
Ummmm
Always beautiful when toe hits leather

 

[Davestwin]

Is August really the best time to lay down sod?

Absolutely not … at least for most of us. The Fall and Spring are the best times to lay sod. That being said, when you have a full time staff dedicated to the stadium’s grass then anytime other than the dead of winter can work. I’ve never read why they lay the sod in August but I’m sure there’s a reason.

 

[TerryP]

Is August really the best time to lay down sod?

Top dressing: sand.

 

[Rolltide24]

I laid an acre of Bermuda hybrid sod last year, mid-July. Watered it heavily for 3 weeks. Was beautiful by mid-August. Lots of sun and lots of water was the only recipe. Didn’t use any fertilizer. Was ready to, but it never needed it. And only lost a section about 8’ by 2.5’ in the side yard.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I laid an acre of Bermuda hybrid sod last year, mid-July. Watered it heavily for 3 weeks. Was beautiful by mid-August. Lots of sun and lots of water was the only recipe. Didn’t use any fertilizer. Was ready to, but it never needed it. And only lost a section about 8’ by 2.5’ in the side yard.

Holy cow, how many pallets is that? 80? 90?

In my advancing years, preparing the soil and two pallets is a day for me.

 

[BAMAneck]

Columbian or Acapulco Gold ?...... oh wait.

Leeeeeet’s make a dope deal…..“ Acapulco gold , it’s some bad ass weed .”

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Leeeeeet’s make a dope deal…..“ Acapulco gold , it’s some bad ass weed .”

 

[Rolltide24]

Holy cow, how many pallets is that? 80? 90?

In my advancing years, preparing the soil and two pallets is a day for me.

It was 4 tractor trailer loads. They were the huge rolls and not the pallets. And my buddy let us use his sod roller machine. We cheated! It would have taken a month with those little rectangle pieces. I’d have died. We sodded the front and side yards of our house in Charlotte in 2009, was 16 pallets. I was young then and the wife is a hard charger. We load it all in 3 days. Took a few years off my back.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

It was 4 tractor trailer loads. They were the huge rolls and not the pallets. And my buddy let us use his sod roller machine. We cheated! It would have taken a month with those little rectangle pieces. I’d have died. We sodded the front and side yards of our house in Charlotte in 2009, was 16 pallets. I was young then and the wife is a hard charger. We load it all in 3 days. Took a few years off my back.

That's still a ton of work. I have a 16 foot tandem axle trailer that I use to haul the tractor and larger loads, and it hauls two pallets okay. The sod farm where I buy my centipede is less than ten miles from my house, so it's convenient and fresh, sometimes I snag it late afternoon the day it's cut or first thing next morning. I lost some monster trees last year and I haven't ground my stumps yet, and when I do that I'll probably put out two pallets where they were located, probably early October. I have 1 3/4 acres, probably 3/4 of that is lawn, and much of the lot had a decent stand of centipede before I built. Backyard was turned for the septic field and it'll have to be redone, just weeds and wild grass now, one of my first tasks in retirement.

 

[PurlJam]

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"I think we're parked man."

 

[BAMAneck]

 

[SoCalPatrick]

Leeeeeet’s make a dope deal…..“ Acapulco gold , it’s some bad ass weed .”

Meh, mid-grade.