Sod now or wait until Spring?

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Should I go ahead and lay sod now and hope it takes and can make it through the winter?

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You can lay sod in the winter. If it were me, I would wait a little longer until temps dropped some and then lay it.

They say you can lay sod anytime during the year in south LA but it’s a bit risky in late fall/winter if it doesn’t get properly rooted prior to hard freezes. But even then, people lay dormant sod all year long especially when new homes are built. With weather being so hot this year I am thinking we will be able to go into late November before grasses go dormant or partially dormant. With that said I plan to sod within the next couple of weeks which should still leave 4-6 weeks of root establishment before dormancy

I just laid down 30 pieces of discounted (oldish) Zoysia from Woerner Turf Thursday of last week. It's already impossible to lift up from the dirt [aka starting to get well rooted]