Lawn care is all about choices. Do you use a sun mix of grass seed, or a sun/shade mix? Should you use a ground covering? Should you skip the seed completely and just put down sod?
Sod: One Type of Lawn Care

Sod is one option you have when you’re looking at lawn care. Here are some tips from This Old House about how to lay down sod:
When it comes to getting a thick, healthy lawn, nothing beats sod for instant gratification. Sure, it costs a bit more: about $400 to cover a 1,000-square-foot backyard (double that installed). But lay it right and in a couple of weeks you’ve got a dense, well-established lawn that’s naturally resistant to weeds, diseases, and pest infestations.
“You’re basically buying time,” says This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook. “You’re paying for turf that someone else has coddled for 14 to 18 months.”
You’re also buying convenience. Sod can be installed spring through fall (and even in winter in mild climates). In areas of the country that favor cool-season grasses, like the Northeast, it avoids the problem of sprouting a nice crop of weeds when seeding a lawn in spring. And in southern states, which favor warm-season grasses like Bermuda grass, zoysia grass, and centipede grass, sod is the best way to cover the yard at any time of year, since these turf types cannot be grown from seed. [READ MORE]
Seed is another option to consider as part of a lawn maintenance regimen. There are several types of grass seed that grow well in Arizona. Each of these seed types work in different levels of light and have different watering requirements. Call in a lawn maintenance company to help you decided which type of seed you should use for your property.
If you want to use seed, plant in mid-late spring, which in Arizona is Feb-Mar. Also make sure that you put down ground covering to keep birds from eating the grass seed. After all, you want a lawn, not a buffet. When in doubt, call in a lawn maintenance service to help you seed bare spots, or care for your lawn appropriately.
Green Servpro is an Arizona based lawn maintenance company serving the greater Phoenix area.
Green ServPro LLC
600 W. Ray Rd. Suite B2
Prescott AZ 85225
(928) 356-8167
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