Our crews lay all four warm-season grasses in town, from the small front yards of the historic shotgun blocks by the river to the roomier lots in the subdivisions that grew after the 1958 bridge.
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Sod and Lawn Grass for Gretna Yards
Sod in Gretna almost always goes onto clay. Schriever clay, Harahan clay and Westwego clay cover most of the city’s land, and the Harahan series itself was described from a site off Gretna Boulevard.
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01 · Gretna
Which part of Gretna is your yard in?
Plot the federal soil survey across the city and three bands show up, running roughly parallel to the Mississippi. Each one asks something different of a new lawn.
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The river end: Old Gretna and McDonoghville
Closest to the levee, the ground is mostly Schriever clay, a shrink-swell soil with very slow permeability, plus a strip of Cancienne silt loam on the natural levee. Schriever’s surface pH typically reads 7.3, on the alkaline side for turf. Yards here run small. The National Register district counts 737 structures, more than half of them shotgun houses, most set close together and fairly close to the street. McDonoghville, part of Gretna since 1913, has modest homes on sizeable lots.
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The middle of town
In the central band of the city, about 84 percent of the sampled ground is a single backswamp clay. Its official series description was written from a site in Gretna, near Gretna Boulevard. The water table usually sits 12 to 36 inches down, and the surface