palvarado – posted 28 June 2001 16:21
We had our lawn sodded 1 week ago, the back yard is about 40-50% dead looking now – we started off watering 2-3 times a day in very hot weather and now are watering 1x/day as it has cooled off. Please help! Are we doing something wrong or was our sod damaged maybe before it was put in?
seed – posted 29 June 2001 23:00
palvarado, it doesn’t sound good, except some grasses can go completely brown due to frost and still come back fine. Where are you located and what type of grass do you have? In Florida, once a day is sufficient to water in new sod, for the first two weeks; after that, twice per week.
Phil
palvarado – posted 06 July 2001 16:55
we are in the california bay area – we did have several 100+ days, definately no frost. we have been watering it 2x day for 30 minutes now for several days – today is 2 weeks since it was put in. there are some green shoots coming up in the brown areas but not a whole lot… is there hope?
seed – posted 06 July 2001 18:39
palvarado, it doesn’t sound good. Some grasses with rhizomes can come back from near death, so I wouldn’t totally give up. I am thinking the sod may have been bad when you got it. Phil
farmer – posted 06 December 2002 15:23
Without background site information, it is difficult to provide an exact answer. My first question would pertain to site preparation , especially if any chemicals were used to “sterilize” the area or to “kill off” any pre-existing vegetation. Some of these often used chemicals have long (weeks to months) residuals that could be taken up by your new turf, especially with your supplied amounts of water. History tells me you have a combination of elements that are causing this to happen. Get a detailed soil test, even test the water for high salts or other damaging agents. I doubt the sod was bad, you would have observed a problem when it came of the truck.Good luck
frenchman – posted 07 December 2002 19:14
What type of grass are you talking about and yes farmer bad sod can be delivered. When customers don’t know what to look for they can be fooled