Woodbridge is one of the most carefully-preserved estate towns west of New Haven, running heavily to two-acre minimum-lot zoning and a Yale-faculty-and-medical-school homeowner base that sets a precise landscape standard. There's the historic Woodbridge Center along the Town Green, the Amity Road corridor near the high school, the open Pease Road and Lucy Lane sections, the Country Club of Woodbridge area with its gated entrances, and the multi-acre wooded estate parcels on the back roads out toward the Bethany, Orange, and Derby lines. Soils shift from glacial-till loam in the valleys to rockier upland ground on the Pease Road and Sperry grades, and deer pressure runs constant on the open and wooded lots alike.
CT Sod is based in nearby Milford, a short run down the Wilbur Cross and Route 63 from Woodbridge. 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 installs sod nearly every day across New Haven and Fairfield Counties — backed by 30 years of sod industry experience. On the estate scale Woodbridge favors, that's the same kind of work our crews handle across the region, up to large multi-acre installs like a 17,000 square foot pool-surround job in nearby Shelton.
Here is how install day runs on a Woodbridge estate lot. Once your written quote is approved and the date is set, your sod is cut fresh at the farm that morning and trucked up the Wilbur Cross and Route 63. On a long winding back-road drive past a gated Country Club-area entrance, or up a steep Pease Road grade, the loaded truck stays put while the all-terrain forklift carries each pallet all the way to the work area — and on the larger multi-acre lawns the crew stages several drop points to keep the sod fresh as it moves across the lot. The sod-specialist crew then lays it wall to wall with tight seams, and the finished lawn is handed off the same day with a watering plan so the first soak starts right away.