Thomas Turfgrass

Got a few pallets of sod from them this summer. Because of weed and johnson grass issues, we killed and tilled up my entire front yard. After making sure all was dead, we laid sod. After more than a month of daily hand waterings, instead of a nice lawn of St Augustine, I have an OK lawn as well as a host of all new weed issues brought in with this poor quality sod. Not to mention quite a bit of bermuda grass that we saw on the sod as we took it off the pallet. Hoping it gets choked out, but it is thriving and spreading so far. We now have a nutsedge infestation that we need to treat. Had never seen nutsedge before we got this sod. According to one agricultural website, «They (nutsedge) are among the most problematic weeds of agriculture.» Traded one set of headaches for another. Great!
I found it interesting that it took their «grass» guy a couple of days to identify nutsedge for me. Wonder how long he has been their go to guy for grass/​weed issues?
Seems they need better quality control and weed treatment of their grasses BEFORE harvesting for sale. I got some story about seeds blowing… I can get that, but this is more than just a few seeds. I had entire pieces that turned out to be all grass-​like weeds and ended up pulling them up. This is a company cheaping out by not treating their grass and then advising customers on the back end how to treat the issues they inherit with their sod purchase. They need to invest in their sod to make sure folks get what they pay for instead letting their customers deal with it. I won’t be back… and we have more sodding to do!

Avoid this place, they either don’t know what they’re doing or they don’t mind selling dead grass to people.
Pallet of St. Augustine they pulled from was hot on the inside and smelled fermented. Needless to say it was all dead grass and of course they have a policy of no returns.