I laid centepede sod last year, my soil is extremely sandy, tilled it
up and added some clay soil, leveled it all out raked it, applied
fertilizer, raked it in applied a little spray of water the night
before to help settle it some, laid it the next day, rolled it firmly
in contact with soil and it took off a is doing great.


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:43:19 GMT, BillandJeny
wrote:

===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


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