I had an 18" pear tree stup ground up today. Can I just spread the dirt and
wood chips around and lay sod or do I need to remove the chips? Will the
chips hurt my Zoyzia sod?

"Jeff Bennett" <inspectmemphis [at] bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I had an 18" pear tree stup ground up today. Can I just spread the dirt
and
> wood chips around and lay sod or do I need to remove the chips? Will the
> chips hurt my Zoyzia sod?

my experience, giving rise to my advice, remove the chips. Hunks of wood
chips in grass are not a good idea. If there is saw dust get rid of as much
of that as possible as well.

rob

Jeff

The grindings are made up of what amounts to fresh chips. That's if the
tree was not symplastless (which you may call dead). Some of the grindings
will me mostly soil. That would be ok. I would not try to grow sod on top
of fresh grindings. You want to let the grindings compost for about a year
before using them as a mulch. If you need to know why, let me know.

Sincerely,

John A. Keslick, Jr.
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that we are not the boss.
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"Jeff Bennett" <inspectmemphis [at] bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:qGNcg.51659$Kn4.31966 [at] bignews2.bellsouth.net...
> I had an 18" pear tree stup ground up today. Can I just spread the dirt
and
> wood chips around and lay sod or do I need to remove the chips? Will the
> chips hurt my Zoyzia sod?
>
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