Overseeding Sod and Soil Base Preparation

shade mixture here's a tip for you if you go with sod if you lay sod you still have to overseed yes you do why because all sod is growing in direct sunlight there's no tree trees on a sod farm they don't grow sod underneath trees plain and simple so that's a sunny mixture most people's yards have one or two trees in it and what happens is when you put that sod that's accustomed to being in direct sunlight in shade it's going to die now it's not going to die in 30 days 60 days it's not even going to die that summer but in 3 4 five years that sod's going to die okay so what you do is you over seed the sod with a shade mixture and what that does is that allows the shade mixture to grow in as the sun mixture dies off keeping your lawn lush green and looking beautiful under any circumstances so what's the second most critical component to seating a lawn well that's your base material that is making sure that you have a good layer of black dirt down now a lot of times you hear the quote you got to put four in of Base material down that's hogwash okay you never put you never layer the soil in a 4 in layer where if this is your subsoil this is clay or sand you just slap 4 in of black dirt down cuz if this was Clay what would happen is that grass that grass would be too rich this the the black dirt would be too rich for it and it would root systems would go down and hit that clay layer and then get stuck okay so you what you really want to do is you want to mix black dirt into the upper layer of soil whether that's a clay whether that's a sand or whatever it doesn't make a difference you want to incorporate it in that gives your seed a deeper base for it to germinate it's just easier to work with so the two critical elements even distribution of the seed and having a good layer of uh subsoil for it to grow in simple as that don't overseed too heavily when I say too heavily remember