Graded my yard and all new top soil - what seed should I put down? Neighbors have St. Aug

You can't seed St Aug, if you want st Aug from the jump it's gonna require plugging or sodding.

I don’t know

I guess i am talking out of my arse

I’d rather just seed it. I don’t want to spend the money on sodding. New construction went way over budget

How big is the lawn renovation?

As mentioned, only decent seed options are Bermuda or Centipede. Rye is getting a little late to use as it’ll die over the summer, and Bahia is not really a great lawn grass.

A pallet of St Aug sod to cover ~450 sqft is around $250 if you put it down yourself.

At a minimum, I’d recommend to get one pallet of St Aug (if that’s what you want) and use it as your “sprigs”. If you want any kind of decent lawn, full sod is gonna be the way to go.

You just spent all this money on leveling and top soil, and you’re gonna cheap out at the end and potentially ruin that work?

Sod if you can afford it!

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11,000 - 12,000 square feet

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Sod a section. If you like a project, Sprig or plug the rest.

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Opinions on carpet grass? From what I've read it does well in poor draining acidic soil

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It is generally hated on by lawn fanatics because of the fact that it makes seed stalks when it goes uncut for more than a week, and grows very fast, requiring a lot of cutting. I intentionally seeded with carpet grass 8 years ago because it tolerates literally anything and I don't mind the stalks because i maintain my yard and rarely see them anyway. It also lacks a designer herbicide that won't affect it like Bermuda has. It is pretty much unkillable by any natural phenomenon, including flooding, drought, fungus, poor soil, etc. It also has a brighter green color that lacks the deep green some people prefer.

It won't take over but when the St Aug dies back from fungus the carpetgrass will move in.

Bermuda seed is most likely to successfully get grass quickly if you go the seed route. Seeding is gonna be more labor intensive at first because you can’t allow the seeded areas to dry out for even a short time period.
Consider “checkerboard sodding” to cut the cost of sodding potentially in half. In other words, lay down pieces of sod every other space and stagger the pieces in adjacent rows. St Aug spreads fast, second only to bermuda. So maybe you can have a completely knit together lawn by sometime this summer.

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I went with Bermuda

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If you don’t have irrigation, get it down before all the rain we are about to get.
Even still, it could be a long shot.