Sodding in the rain...
A work in progress.
Diary of a mad sod pig.
Nancy has been working her butt off installing a new back yard for a client on Donner Lake, and it’s finally nearing completion. We put in the sod yesterday and today. Yesterday, there were a few flakes of snow coming down. Today, it rained the entire day. Fun.
Nancy did all the cutting and fitting, which meant I got to be her sod pig, ferrying the rolls of sod from the alley to the yard.
The amount of work involved moving the sod into place depends entirely on the quality of the sod. Sometimes the rolls are cut thin and they are relatively light, sometimes they are embedded with nylon mesh to keep them from tearing, and sometimes—like today—they are both very heavy and very fragile.
Getting the rolls off the palette, into the wheelbarrow, out of the wheelbarrow and onto the ground in one piece gets pretty tricky, like picking up a premature baby that weighs fifty pounds.
We didn’t finish until 8:00, and by then we were both soaked and getting the chills as the temperature dropped below 40. However, it means the hard part of the installation is over, with only planting and tweaking the irrigation remaining.
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