I have reviewed a couple of companies who sell plugs. This seems expensive compared to buying a pallet of zoysia and cutting the plugs myself. I assume cutting the plugs takes some work, but might be worth the expense (new house, much to do!).

Does anyone know of other reasons to buy plugs versus cutting your own from sod? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for the input.

I bought a pallet of sod from a local sod farm since it was cheaper than a pallet at home depot. When I picked up the sod, it was really nice looking. (Meyers Z52).

Anyway, I have a large lawn and started pulling out plugs, and quite frankly, it got old in a hurry. The sod was so thick, it was hard to cut and I ended up using a bush ax to cut it, which kind of killed the accuracy of matching the plug to the plug hole.

I suppose plugging would work, but I ended up making plugs out of three or 4 sheets of sod, and laying the rest out in bare spots.

Here is an idea though. IF you have access to a rototiller, till a stright line and put sod in it and space it out like 2 feet in between rows. I did that in some places also, and will likely go that route again.
I figure a sheet of sod will expand faster than a plug, but I may b wrong.

The cheap plugger didn’t last very long so I had a double plugger made from ¼ inch steel. It’s heavy duty and still serves me well.

Here lately I’ve just been digging out a scoop with the shovel and plugging 8-inch plugs.

I’ve been thinking about making a plugger that would go on the back of my riding mower. I would convert a lawn aerator by removing the smaller tubular spikes with larger steel tubes. Anybody ever heard of this?