Sod Installation in Garden City, NY

Garden City is the historic planned community in the center of Nassau County, founded by A.T. Stewart in 1869 as one of the first planned suburbs in America — the Cathedral Avenue and Stewart Avenue spines, the Cathedral of the Incarnation and Garden City Hotel village core, the Adelphi University campus, the eastern Mott Section and the Estates Section, and the formal grid of tree-lined residential blocks with the largest single-family lots in central Nassau. Soils sit on the typical Hempstead Plain — sandy loam over loamy outwash with relatively good drainage. Lawns deal with the institutional planned-community landscape standard set by 155 years of deed-restricted formal blocks, the mature oak and linden canopy that replaced the lost elms, and the country-club rhythm of the village.

CT Sod has been delivering and installing sod across Nassau County for years. Pallets are cut to order at the farm the morning of your install, hauled out to Long Island, placed exactly where you need them by all-terrain forklift — past the formal hedge lines and tree lawns — and laid by crews whose only job is sod, not general landscaping.

Here is what install day looks like in Garden City. Once the written quote is approved and the date is set, your sod is cut fresh at the farm that morning and loaded straight onto the truck for the run out to Long Island. Your landscaper has the site graded and prepped, so when the truck arrives the all-terrain forklift moves the pallets past the clipped hedge lines and tree lawns and sets them near where the crew is laying, off the manicured front yard. A sod-only crew rolls it out, cuts it in tight to beds and walks, and rolls the seams the same day it was harvested. Before we pull out, we hand off the watering plan — with the extra passes the free-draining Hempstead Plain soil needs — so the first soak goes down that afternoon.