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The short answer: Sod needs DIRT to DIRT contact. Green side up, and stagger the pieces.

The long answer: See our How To Guide for Sod Installation

Bermuda Installation

For Bermuda, we recommend videos from “How To With Doc”. He has a website and a YouTube channel that we've linked below.

How To With Doc YouTube Channel

Empire Zoysia

For Empire Zoysia, we recommend the “Lawn Care Nut”. He also has an extensive website with a newsletter, an app, and also has informative YouTube videos.

Lawn Care Nut YouTube Channel

Empire Zoysia & Geo Zoysia

For Empire Zoysia and Geo Zoysia, we recommend Sod Solutions. They propagated the original cultivar for these grasses, thus they have the most up-to-date information on how to treat them.

Check them out here: Sod Solutions Youtube Channel

It depends on the hours of sun your yard receives, and the amount of work you’d like to do to maintain the grass.

If you have a shady area that receives anywhere from 3-6 hours of sun, we recommend one of our Zoysia grasses. Geo Zoysia is a fine-blade that can tolerate 3-4 hours of sun (but also thrives in full sun, too). Empire Zoysia is a strong, hardy wide-blade that can tolerate 5-6 hours of sun per day (also thrives in full sun). Each of these are slow growing, but still need to be mowed quite low (½ inch to 1 ½ inches) in order to maintain a healthy lawn.

If you have full sun in your yard, any of our grasses will do well, but especially the Bermuda (Tifway 419) will be successful in 8-12 hours of sun. It is very hardy, tolerates foot traffic well, and is grows quickly. It establishes itself further by growing “runners” laterally across the ground. Those runners in turn establish roots and then propagate more Bermuda.

The key to measuring your yard is to calculate the length and width of your yard. This will help you find the total area of your yard, stated as “area squared”. The math here is Length x Width = Area Squared. Although yards are not often perfectly square or rectangular, you can estimate the amount of grass you need by breaking your yard down into rectangular sections and multiplying the length times width of all sections. If you have an oddly shaped yard, please use our area calculator found here: areacalculator.sodsolutions.com.

Yes, we deliver full pallets (we cannot deliver a 1/2 pallet, or 1.5 pallets, etc). Please call 2-3 days ahead of time to place your delivery order. Please note that full trucks and orders with several pallets are given priority for our morning delivery times. Call the office at 770-607-0491 for delivery prices!

We are located in Cartersville, 45 minutes north of the Atlanta perimeter. One advantage of buying sod from Legacy Turf Farms is that our sod is grown in the same native soil you'll be planting it in. Most sod grown in Georgia is based hours away, below Macon in South Georgia. We cut our sod fresh to order, and can deliver quickly so that your sod spends less time on a truck.

Before placing your sod order, be sure to measure your yard. You can use our online measuring tool, or you can measure length times width in feet, to determine your yard’s square footage. Also, consider the preparation of your site, and remember that this does not have to be done all in one weekend! Consider prepping your dirt one or two weeks ahead of time, so that you are prepared to lay the sod, dirt on dirt, green side up, when the sod arrives. You may call for a pick up or a delivery 2-3 days in advance.

It varies based on the sod type, but all warm season grasses require sunlight to thrive and be healthy. A grass like Bermuda requires 8 hours of daily, full sun. Other grasses like Zoysia have been bred to be more shade tolerant and require less direct sun. Some of these may perform better than others in shady conditions, but all grasses do need at least 4 hours of daily sunlight, regardless of their type. Before ordering sod, make sure your salesman understands the environment where your sod will be planted. For example, we do not recommend sodding underneath pine trees due to the acidity of the soil.

For best results, we recommend installing and watering your sod as soon as it is delivered. Although the sod is still very much alive, any delay in installation may deteriorate the physical appearance of the sod. During its active growing season, the sod may begin to yellow if left on a pallet for longer than 24 hours. If this does happen, simply apply a deep watering to help the sod bounce back.

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