Prospect is a small, almost entirely residential town in the hills between Waterbury and Cheshire — the historic Prospect Center along the Town Green, the Cheshire Road corridor, the Salem Road section, the Straitsville area, and the residential and estate lots scattered through the surrounding wooded hills. Large-lot residential zoning means multi-acre wooded properties with long driveways, steep grades that climb through the Salem Road and Straitsville sections, and steady deer pressure on the back-road edges. Soils sit on glacial-till loam in the valleys and rockier upland ground on the hill grades.
CT Sod is based in Milford, an easy run down from the Prospect hills. Pallets are cut to order at the farm the morning of installation, placed exactly where the crew needs them by all-terrain forklift, and laid by a team that lays sod nearly every day across New Haven County — backed by 30 years of sod industry experience. On the open, exposed Salem Road lots we lead with Tall Fescue and RTF for the deep roots; the wooded back-road parcels take a bluegrass-fescue blend, and the sunny Town Green frontages take Kentucky bluegrass for the color the streetscape calls for.
In Prospect, install day is a hill-town operation from start to finish. You book, and the morning of your date your sod is cut fresh at the farm and trucked up from Milford the same day, arriving cool and still rooted. Our all-terrain forklift takes over on the steep Salem Road and Straitsville grades, the long back-road driveways, and the stone-wall right-of-ways — carrying pallets to where the crew is laying rather than the end of the drive. A team that lays sod nearly every day sets tight seams and clean grading transitions, running the seams across the slope on the hill lots so the sod knits in without slipping. Before we leave, you get a same-day watering handoff so the new lawn starts rooting into the rockier upland soil right away.