The Gods of Sod - Lawn and Landscape

About The Gods of Sod - Lawn and Landscape

Out on the west side of Urbandale, Living History Farms keeps a version of this ground the way it was worked a century ago, and the same black Iowa dirt sits under every yard in town. The Gods of Sod - Lawn and Landscape treats that soil as the starting point — sod and turf brought in even, then mowing, trimming and edging that keeps it that way once it has knit down and taken hold. Fresh sod in a June evening, watered in with the sun going flat orange over the fields, is about as satisfying as this work gets. After that it becomes a matter of showing up weekly and cutting to a height the grass can actually live with. Bare ground to a lawn that holds a stripe: that is the arc worth doing.