Water Pump,Turf Farm Listings, Posting pictures of Grass

kenandcoly – posted 28 June 2005 07:14

i want to say that i close on a home this week down here in miami and i am excited about getting started on the yard. i will work on the front of the yard first and then the back later on in the year.

ok heres my questions…

Does anyone know how to get the listing of turf farms in florida. i googled this and didnt come up with any real listings im willing to drive at much as 180 miles as the grass down here in miami is up to almost 200 dollars a pallet (@#@#!@).

usually folks that help the novices would prefer for a person to send them a picture sample of their grass… i tried to about a year and a half ago with no success…maybe we can have a small admin forum topic on how to post your pics in your threads. i think it would help tremendously if the situation calls for it.

Last…since the water pump is broken at the home. i will buy one used thats not a biggie. whats worse is that i can see all of the pump lines snapped and pulled up out of the ground. how hard is it to re run the lines i have a permanent drive that i will replace and also a walkway as well… would it be easier to rerun the hose at the beginning of the driveway and walkway to get to the rest of the yard (this is where that picture idea would work just fine)

thanks in advanceken

seed – posted 28 June 2005 07:57

kenandcoly, sod farms are listed at http://floridalawn.com You will almost certainly have to deal through a nursery outlet or an installer, and you can look those up in the yellow pages under “Sod” or the sod farmer will tell you who their intermediary is.

If you email me a picture to

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I can post it on this forum or you can look around this web site and see how some users have used various outside services such as one which was called “efoto”.

It may a good time to redesign the sprinkler system from scratch, using the original well if it is still good (or suction line from a lake or canal) and if you have an existing line that goes under the driveway you may want to use it rather than doing it from scratch. When you say “hose” do you mean that the existing line is black polyethylene (which is flexible and collapsible)?

For compact home landscapes, it is sensible to radiate the zone lines from a central distributor next to the pump, the distributor controlling to which zone the water goes. If there is more than one zone on the other side of an obstacle such as a driveway, it is necessary to run multiple lines under or through the driveway, preferably before the driveway is installed.

For long narrow landscapes and for large landscapes it is better to run one main line and install remote valves distant from the pump, which are controlled usually by wires going back to a control clock that can be (but doesn’t have to be) near the pump. The main line approach avoids parallel pipes going in the same direction (thus only one pipe needs to go underneath the driveway) and it is easier to add remote valves later when new zones have to be added (but it is best to anticipate future new zones by adding additional control wires in the trench for future expansion).

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kenandcoly – posted 01 July 2005 09:01

im sending the picture…so you can get an idea. i decided to wait on the pump system until the winter months when i take out the sidwalk and driveway and install a roundabout in the front of my yard. i found a site on here that might be helpful for anyone looking for grass from a farm that does offer to the public.

http://floridalawn.com/sodgrowers.htm i got a great price for the lawn and im going to go up at the end of july and buy a few pallets. thanks for your help

ill be emailing you from

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ken

quote:Originally posted by seed:kenandcoly, sod farms are listed at http://floridalawn.com You will almost certainly have to deal through a nursery outlet or an installer, and you can look those up in the yellow pages under “Sod” or the sod farmer will tell you who their intermediary is.

If you email me a picture to

ed****@tu*******.com











I can post it on this forum or you can look around this web site and see how some users have used various outside services such as one which was called “efoto”.

It may a good time to redesign the sprinkler system from scratch, using the original well if it is still good (or suction line from a lake or canal) and if you have an existing line that goes under the driveway you may want to use it rather than doing it from scratch. When you say “hose” do you mean that the existing line is black polyethylene (which is flexible and collapsible)?

For compact home landscapes, it is sensible to radiate the zone lines from a central distributor next to the pump, the distributor controlling to which zone the water goes. If there is more than one zone on the other side of an obstacle such as a driveway, it is necessary to run multiple lines under or through the driveway, preferably before the driveway is installed.

For long narrow landscapes and for large landscapes it is better to run one main line and install remote valves distant from the pump, which are controlled usually by wires going back to a control clock that can be (but doesn’t have to be) near the pump. The main line approach avoids parallel pipes going in the same direction (thus only one pipe needs to go underneath the driveway) and it is easier to add remote valves later when new zones have to be added (but it is best to anticipate future new zones by adding additional control wires in the trench for future expansion).

Ph********@tu*******.com