SoD Celebrates SOD!

Sentence of Dave (affectionately known as SoD) would like to take a moment on this lovely spring Saturday to applaud that lowly chunk of dirt and grass known as "sod" . . . we had a tree removed from the front lawn last year and the tree removal guys left a big hole filled with stump grindings, and this morning I fixed up our wheelbarrow, illegally dumped some stump grindings over the cliff at the park (thus clearing the hole a bit) and went to Home Depot to buy some topsoil and grass seed, but when I was at Home Depot, I noticed they had a big pile of sod slices ($4.48 a slice) and so I bought two of them and after I put some top soil down, I tossed two slices of sod atop the soil, and voila . . . instant grass!-- so though archetypal Western villain Liberty Valance uses the term "sodbuster" in vitriolic and derogatory manner, that's because he's the kind of guy that lives "wherever he hangs his hat," and obviously has never maintained a lawn . . . sod, Liberty, is the horticultural miracle that could keep you from pushing daisies at such a young age, sod.
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3 comments:

  1. zmanApril 21, 2018 at 7:17 PM

    Noam Chomsky hates sod.

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  2. robApril 21, 2018 at 9:46 PM

    you should hate sod, too. g:tb told you: http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2013/08/its-your-saturday-not-your-lawns.html

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  3. DaveApril 22, 2018 at 7:03 AM

    i agree-- i'm of the "let anything grow" and i don't do any lawn care-- but this was literally a pit of sawdust, which-- according to the internet-- is very bad for growing anything. throwing a couple of pieces of sod on it was very satisfying. i also puzzle pieced the random chunks of clover and grass leftover from my tree planting project around the edges, so it's quite a sight.

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