Sod Installation
05 / 05- Soil Test & Amendment
- Grade & Drainage Preparation
- Sod Variety Selection
- Staggered Install & Tight Seaming
- Roll, Irrigate & Establishment Schedule
Sod & New Planting
Sod Installation &
New Planting
Green on day one. Healthy for years. We prepare the soil correctly, source Oregon-grown sod, and install it to root, not just to look good in the first week.
Portland · Beaverton · SW Washington ·
OR LCB# 9957 · WA GCC# OLGUICL807RZ · Free Estimates
The Craft
Green on day one. Rooted for years.
Sod failure is almost always a soil failure. Rolls laid over compacted clay, inadequate grade, or zero soil amendment will look fine for a month and fail by the first dry summer. We prep the ground the way it needs to be prepped, tested, amended, graded to drain, and ready to actually grow turf, before the first roll comes off the truck.
We source Oregon-grown sod varieties matched to your sun exposure and water availability. Installation is tight-seamed, properly rolled, and set up with an irrigation schedule from day one. New planting beds are amended, edged, and installed to the same standard, soil first, plants second, mulch last. Not the other way around.
Soil Amendment · Grade & Drainage · Oregon-Grown Sod
Tight Seam · Rolled · Irrigation Day One
Our sod & planting process covers
5core dimensions
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Soil Testing & Amendment
We test pH, compaction, and drainage before specifying amendments. Clay soil gets broken up and organic matter added, not just covered over with rolls of sod.
- §02
Grade & Drainage Prep
Proper slope away from structures, low spots filled, and drainage verified. Water pooling under new sod is a death sentence for root establishment.
- §03
Sod Selection
Oregon-grown varieties selected for your sun zone, foot traffic level, and irrigation availability. Not all turf performs the same in the Portland Metro's climate.
- §04
Installation & Seaming
Rolls laid in a staggered pattern, seams tight with no gaps, cuts clean at all edges. Rolled after installation for root-to-soil contact.
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Irrigation & Establishment
Initial irrigation set up and programmed for establishment, not the same schedule you'll run in year two. We set the first 30 days up for success.
Two services. One healthy yard.
Sod installation that roots, not just rolls.
Healthy turf starts before the rolls arrive. Soil tested, grade prepped, variety matched, then a clean install and a watering schedule built for establishment.
Test soil and amend for drainage, pH, and organic content
Grade surface for proper slope and drainage
Select Oregon-grown sod variety for sun zone and use
Install in staggered pattern, tight seams, clean edges
Roll for contact, set irrigation, and schedule establishment watering
New planting beds built from the soil up.
Beds that thrive don't start at the plant. They start at the soil, amended for what's going in, edged clean, mulched right, and watered on a real schedule.
Amend bed soil to plant requirements, not generic potting mix
Grade and edge bed lines clean against lawn or hardscape
Install plants per approved plan, proper depth and spacing
Apply organic mulch at correct depth, not piled against stems
Set drip or sprinkler coverage and establish watering schedule
The soil is the lawn. Everything above it is just grass.
Healthy turf is a soil problem before it's a grass problem. Compacted clay, inadequate drainage, and zero organic matter produce sod that looks great at install and deteriorates by its second summer. We fix what's underneath so what's on top actually performs. That's why our sod jobs root properly and our planting beds establish cleanly, instead of declining slowly while the homeowner wonders what went wrong.
- Oregon-Grown Sod
- Soil Amendment
- Grade & Drainage
- Staggered Seaming
- Planting Beds
- Organic Mulch
- Irrigation Setup
- Establishment Watering
“Great lawns start six inches underground.”
What goes into a finished OCL lawn install.
New Planting Beds
05 / 05- Soil Amendment per Plant Requirement
- Bed Grading & Edge Definition
- Plant Install, Depth & Spacing
- Organic Mulch Application
- Drip Setup & Watering Schedule