On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:23:58 GMT, Bill
wrote:

Next week I will be laying 400 sq. feet of St. Augustine sod in the
front half of my front yard.

The soil is good. The previous section had been devoured by Aphids,
which I have eliminated.

To or not to fertilze the dirt prilor to laying the sod, that is the
qusstion?

Bill

If your soil is sandy I wouldn't do it. Each time you water or it
rains the nutrients from the fertilizer is only going to leach deeper
and farther away from the roots and the roots that do come in direct
contact with the fertilizer may burn. I don't know about clay soils
but I would expect the possibility of root burn would still exist.

zhan