Our sod products include Centipede, Tifton 419 Bermuda, Tifdwarf Bermuda, BK-7 Zoysia, Empire™ Zoysia, Palmetto™ St. Augustine. We can also provide other types upon request. Here is a guide to selecting the variety which is best for you:


Simplified Zone Hardiness Map

Centipede: A warm season, thick sod forming, uniform growing, and medium to light green colored grass. It is a slow growing, creeping grass with short stems growing upward. This makes it resemble a centipede insect and is why it got its name. Centipede is probably the lowest maintenance of the warm season grasses.

Tifton Bermuda: Bermuda grass is one of the most sun loving of the warm season lawn and pasture grasses. Tifton is darker green and slightly coarser than other Bermuda varieties, produces an extremely dense turf. Once established Tifton 419 Bermuda requires a little more fertilizer and mowing than other warm season grasses, but is very fast to root and spread rapidly.

Empire™ Zoysia: EMPIRE was discovered in Brazil, and unlike other Zoysia varieties, has proven its ability to thrive in hot, humid conditions. EMPIRE has performed well in sandy and clay soil types with aggressive growth from its runners and rhizomes, but can be mowed with a standard rotary mower due to its broader leaf and open growth habit. It requires less maintenance and mowing than other grasses such as Fescue or Bermuda.

Palmetto™ St. Augustine: A native seashore plant, St. Augustine has been popular along the lower Atlantic and the Gulf Coasts for several decades. It has broad blades and large, coarse stems, but produces a fairly compact sod subject to slight weed invasion. St. Augustine is the most shade tolerant of all permanent hot climate grasses and performs well in wet soils and under salt spray. Basically a tropical plant, most St. Augustine varieties are ill-adapted as far north as Atlanta. However, Palmetto St. Augustine demonstrates superior shade, cold, frost, heat, and drought tolerance. This versatile turfgrass is used across the southern United States from the Carolinas to California under a wide range of climate and soil conditions making it an ideal choice for residential and commercial use.

BK-7 Zoysia: A cross between Meyer Zoysia (Japonica) and Emerald Zoysia (Tenuifolia). Craft Turf Farms has been growing BK-7 since 1987 and have been very pleased with its performance. It has a dark green color, medium leaf texture, is more shade tolerant than other zoysia’s and is extremely wear tolerant.  Because of its strong, consistence performance Craft Turf Farms is convinced that BK-7 is the best turf grass for our market area. Please call our office for more information on BK-7.