You have a lot of opportunity and play with your backyard, honestly before you choose to put sod down id really recommend investing time to designing your backyard space, that includes irrigation, garden beds, future projects or expansions, also I’d highly recommend to build beds around your trees since grass can grow a bit finicky around the base of trees. you should also level your dirt before sodding so you can have a pretty flat field of grass once established.
HansDieterN
Too much shade for just about any grass type. This is why your lawn looks the way it currently does. If you want nice turf in that area you need to take the oaks out. You decide which is more important. Nice lawn or a lot of shade.
hobnailboots04
Bermuda would be a waste of money. Those trees will not let it grow. I’ve learned to just deal with the dirt and go cold weather hard as early and as long as I can.
PraiseTalos66012
Honestly unless you’re trying to have a perfect lawn(which would cost a lot of time and money) I’d just go simple, don’t overcomplicate it.
Pick up a few bags of shade mix grass seed and follow the directions, fertilize when the seed says to. Water it a bunch.
It won’t give you a perfect lawn, but it’ll be a huge improvement.
Do not however do sod. Sod is a nightmare. It’s expensive. Very easy to kill. And almost always has worse results than seeding after a season.
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Too much shade for bermuda
You have a lot of opportunity and play with your backyard, honestly before you choose to put sod down id really recommend investing time to designing your backyard space, that includes irrigation, garden beds, future projects or expansions, also I’d highly recommend to build beds around your trees since grass can grow a bit finicky around the base of trees. you should also level your dirt before sodding so you can have a pretty flat field of grass once established.
Too much shade for just about any grass type. This is why your lawn looks the way it currently does. If you want nice turf in that area you need to take the oaks out. You decide which is more important. Nice lawn or a lot of shade.
Bermuda would be a waste of money. Those trees will not let it grow. I’ve learned to just deal with the dirt and go cold weather hard as early and as long as I can.
Honestly unless you’re trying to have a perfect lawn(which would cost a lot of time and money) I’d just go simple, don’t overcomplicate it.
Pick up a few bags of shade mix grass seed and follow the directions, fertilize when the seed says to. Water it a bunch.
It won’t give you a perfect lawn, but it’ll be a huge improvement.
Do not however do sod. Sod is a nightmare. It’s expensive. Very easy to kill. And almost always has worse results than seeding after a season.
If you don’t have dogs put turf in