Grass Squares

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Tallfescue grass is a common choice for sod production, residential lawns, and sports turf. It easily adapts to a broad range of environmental conditions and sod types. Tall fescue performs in sun and shade, handles moderate drought, and resists insects and diseases.

At California Sod Center, we harvest tall fescue grass in Chino, CA. This deeply rooted, green grass has a high wear tolerance and the ability to withstand summer temperatures. When properly maintained, tall fescue looks great where heat, humidity and disease would normally prevail.

Our Superior Fescue sod incorporates a variety of tall fescue grasses. For the sod to hold together, it needs grasses with rhizomes. Rhizomes refer to roots that grow both above and beneath the soil. When sod is harvested, the root system is cut. The rhizomes hold the sod together to keep it from falling apart. They also help repair the sod by forming new growth when exhibiting damage, thinning, or bare spots. Our Superior Fescue sod not only repairs itself, but deep roots help save watering time.

California Sod Center prides ourselves on delivering quality fescue grass in Chino, CA. We use the latest technology to provide sod rich in color, thickness, and texture. Our harvesting machines cut 8 sq. ft. rolls of sod pieces.

Sod Designed for Porch Potty:

The Training Sod is a special lightweight sod that is grown without soil to make it half the weight of traditional sod and none of the mess. It provides the perfect mat of grass to drain quickly and stay fresh for months. Our Training Sod is grown in the sunny weather of Southern California, and delivered fresh to your doorstep guaranteed.

Grass is the key to training.

The included Synthetic Grass is great for years of use. But nothing works better for training your dog, than the smell of REAL GRASS. Use the Training Sod for the first 3-4 weeks while you train your puppy to use the Porch Potty, then switch to Synthetic Grass for years of care free grass. The Training Sod is easily placed in the Porch Potty in seconds. It eliminates the dirt and mess of typical sod and has the scent of real grass dogs are familiar with. You can expect the Training Sod to last approximately 1-2 months of constant use before "urine burn" start to show spotting.

A couple of days ago I received the Porch Potty and I am so excited to tell you that dogs used it instantly. I was shocked to notice that within 30 seconds my oldest dog who is blind and cannot smell walked right up to it and used it. A moment later my second dog used it. I cannot tell you how happy I am with your product. I just moved into a condo and wanted something for the dogs to use on the patio. Presto! Porch Potty to the rescue. Thank you so much.

Assembled my porch potty yesterday and my 6 month puppy has already peed on it 5 times! Wow. Thanks so much for a product that is foolproof, lightweight, easy setup, ingenious, and aesthetically pleasing. Everyone should own one. The fire hydrant is really cute (even though it smells like pee, haha).

I purchased a Porch Potty shortly after bringing home my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy, Charlotte. We found your product to be wonderful, especially when Charlotte was diagnosed with luxated patellas in both rear knees. She had to undergo two separate surgeries and be in leg casts for weeks. Since she was already trained on the potty, it made it so easy for her to go in and out quickly without having to deal with stairs.

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Should you plant grass sod in the fall or the winter? The fall is actually the second best time of the year to plant grass in the Houston area. Moderate temperatures and the fact that grass is still growing should mean that your sod can root before the grass goes dormant and your watering requirements might be lower too. Houston Grass Owner Michael Romine explains in this video. Call 281-431-7441 for more information.

But then we get into winter, and the grass has gone dormant a little earlier than normal this year because we had a couple of hard frosts. I believe early to mid-November were when those frosts occurred. But you still get days above 80 degrees. Even in the 70s, mid 70s, the grass is going to be growing a little bit and putting down roots.

You can pick up our grass from our office located just off Highway 6 a few miles east of Sienna. We can deliver your grass to your project site, and we can arrange for installation too. Call us at 281-431-7441 for more information.

A couple months ago, one of our EcoWarriors, Robb, was giving a presentation at our local Surfrider meeting about orcas and rain gardens, and how we can use rain gardens as an important tool in protecting our southern resident orcas.

In the midst of his presentation, Robb made a passionate comment about how terrible lawns are for our environment, and I immediately knew I wanted him to write a guest post for a Make Waves Monday on the subject.

Summer is back in the Pacific Northwest, and the last thing any of us want to do on a hot summer day is mow the lawn. Many Northwesterners just give up on their yards during the summer. We all have a few neighbors who let their grass grow long and turn brown. And can you blame them? Why would someone spend time, money, and energy just to make sure they have a green square in front of their house? The more that you look at lawns, the more you start to question the entire point of having one!

Most lawns in the United States are made up of grasses that originated in Europe. To grow in the U.S., this grass requires more water, especially if you want to keep it green throughout the summer. Because of our national obsession with having a perfect green lawn, grass is now the most irrigated crop in the country, more than any other plant that we grow for food. On top of water, green lawns usually demand fertilizers to stay healthy. Others are resistant to herbicides and pesticides that people use to keep the lawns pristine and weed-free. And about once every week or two, people pull out their gas-powered mowers to spend their free time cutting the grass down a few inches. All of this, just to have neat, little green squares in front of our homes.

Fortunately, more and more people are starting to question if constantly maintaining these little green polluting squares is worth it. Where did the American lawn come from, how did it become so ubiquitous in our culture, and can we replace the lawn with something better?

These European lawns inspired many of the elite in the United States, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The homes of both of these Founding Fathers have large grassy lawns leading up to their residences. Lawns were still only for the wealthy (both Jefferson and Washington enslaved people who cared for their lawns), but with the endorsement of such prominent leaders, other wealthy Americans began to emulate the lawns of these Founding Fathers, bringing more turf to the United States.

As the demand for turf increased, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created several new species of grass that were easier to maintain. Popular magazines began publishing articles on lawn care, likening a good lawn to being a model citizen. With the advent of car and rail travel at the turn of the 20th Century, homeowners were encouraged to keep a green, manicured lawn so travelers could determine the moral character of a neighborhood.

With this suburban growth and cultural pressure, homeowners were looking for more ways to ensure their lawns stayed green and weed-free. A growing chemical industry took full advantage of the demand and developed pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, all with toxic chemicals that had severe ecological and human health impacts.

Sources + Additional Reading:

How the Perfect Lawn Became a Symbol of the American Dream - HISTORY

Lawn - History of Early American Landscape Design

The American Lawn: A Eulogy - The Atlantic

The American Obsession with Lawns - Scientific American Blog Network

The Controversial History of Levittown, America's First Suburb - Untapped New York

The Great American Lawn: How the Dream Was Manufactured - The New York Times

The History of the American Lawn

Sod is generally used for lawns, golf courses, and sports stadiums around the world. In residential construction, it is sold to landscapers, home builders or home owners who use it to establish a lawn quickly and avoid soil erosion. Sod can be used to repair a small area of lawn,[2] golf course, or athletic field that has died and is used as a quicker alternative to re-growing a lawn from seed.[3] Sod is also effective in increasing cooling, improving air and water quality, and assisting in flood prevention by draining water.[4]

In the United States, following the passage of the Homestead Act by Congress in 1862, settlers in the Great Plains used sod bricks to build entire sod houses.[5] This was effective because the prairie sod of the Great Plains was so dense and difficult to cut it earned the nickname "Nebraska marble". Blacksmith John Deere made his fortune when he became the first to make a plow that could reliably cut the prairie sod.[6]

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