Water Mill sits between Southampton and Bridgehampton — the pond-and-farm country anchored by Mecox Bay and the working windmill at the village center, the high-design estate corridor along Flying Point Road and Halsey Lane running toward the ocean, the inland blocks of Cobb Road and Head of Pond, and the eastern fade into Mecox and Bridgehampton's polo country. Soils are loamy farm-belt over sandy subsoil — richer than Southampton outwash, with the irrigation and frost patterns of an open agricultural landscape. The pond-edge sites also bring kyllinga and other sedge pressure that has to be dealt with at the prep stage, before the sod ever goes down.
CT Sod has been delivering and installing sod across the South Fork for years. Pallets are cut to order at the farm the morning of your install, hauled out to the East End, placed exactly where you need them by all-terrain forklift — even past a security gate or down a few hundred feet of private drive — and laid by crews whose only job is sod, not general landscaping.
Here is what install day looks like in Water Mill. Once the 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 East End. Your landscaper has the site prepped — and on the pond-edge sites near Mecox Bay that prep includes knocking down the kyllinga and sedge first. When the truck arrives, the all-terrain forklift takes the pallets past the security gate and down the private drive off Flying Point or Halsey Lane, setting them at the work site rather than the road. A sod-only crew rolls it out, cuts it in tight to the beds, and rolls the seams the same day it was harvested. Before we go, we hand off the watering plan so the first soak goes down that afternoon.