Today I got the grass and put it in. I went to Green Thumb yesterday afternoon to try and pick it up, but they didn’t have enough, and what they did have was getting a bit old and dry to try and use. Thankfully, however, the guy told me that for that quantity, I’d be better off ordering it directly with the people who supply them. It’s slightly cheaper that way, and I could get it delivered to our house rather than trying to arrange for a truck. It’s also fresher, since it’s coming straight from them rather than trying to hit Green Thumb on the right day when they get their deliveries.
So, I did that, and it arrived today. While it did take a while to put in, I think this was probably the easiest part of this process so far. The only downside was getting towards the end later this afternoon and realizing that we either measured wrong or they under-delivered on our order. Luckily, I was able to run down to Green Thumb again and pick up about 10 extra strips from an order they just got delivered today, and use that to finish it off.
Now it’s just a matter of watering it like crazy for the next week, and completing the final step (for this process) by building the barriers around the playground to hold the wood chips in, and then filling it with wood chips.
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pacific sod or superior?
I’ll have to look at the paper again to check; Pacific sounds more familiar, but I don’t really remember right now. I know they are based in Hueneme, though.
Make sure to swamp it out for the next week.
Yeah, the laying of the grass was really easy for me too. But I didn’t have to walk as far as you to get it laid. I had to walk from our driveway through the gate, walking around the house would be a pain.
Measure twice, cut once. Or in your case measure twice, order once.
Yeah, I didn’t do the walking while I was laying it, because they delivered the pallete out on the street in front of our house, so I had to make a bunch of wheelbarrow trips from there to the backyard and stacked it all up back there before I started laying it down.
So far so good, on the watering.
I wan’t to see pictures.
It looks awesome! The yard looks huge.
Thanks. We don’t have a good quality camera right now, but I’ll try to snap some pictures on my phone when I water tomorrow morning, and post them.