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The long term ultimate appearance and performance of your lawn depends on the species and varieties chosen when installed. A lawn can never look any better than the genetics it has no matter how much water or fertilizer you apply. 

For Northern Indiana, there are about 250 varieties of 5 species than can be mixed in millions of combinations to sell as seed that can vary as much as 150% per pound in cost. Your lawn is at the mercy of the builder or contractor he hires to seed your lawn and you won’t know what kind of lawn you have until the grass grows in years later.  There’s no hiding with sod. You can see what other sodded lawns look like and even make a visit to our sod farm.  As a sod grower, we are constantly evaluating new varieties in order to provide our customers with the hardiest, most disease resistant, and best looking grasses possible.

Who’s Your
(Lawns’) Daddy?

Tractor on Red Hen Turf Field

The long term ultimate appearance and performance of your lawn depends on the species and varieties chosen when installed. A lawn can never look any better than the genetics it has no matter how much water or fertilizer you apply. 

For Northern Indiana, there are about 250 varieties of 5 species than can be mixed in millions of combinations to sell as seed that can vary as much as 150% per pound in cost. Your lawn is at the mercy of the builder or contractor he hires to seed your lawn and you won’t know what kind of lawn you have until the grass grows in years later.  There’s no hiding with sod. You can see what other sodded lawns look like and even make a visit to our sod farm.  As a sod grower, we are constantly evaluating new varieties in order to provide our customers with the hardiest, most disease resistant, and best looking grasses possible.

Who’s Your (Lawns’) Daddy?

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29435 Darden Rd        New Carlisle, IN
574-232-6811

29435 Darden Rd        New Carlisle, IN 46552   574-232-6811

Harvesting Sod in the SNOW - Photo Credit: Ron Strean, Red Hen Turf Farm
frequent question

now that it's LATE 2025


! Hey, RED HEN !

? can i still buy sod ?

Our Reply:

Updated 12/5/25

Red Hen Turf Farm’s

2025 Sod Harvesting Season

has OFFICIALLY ENDED

as of 12/5/25

due to SNOW / Precipitation and Unfavorable Field Conditions. 

We had hoped to keep going until 12/19/25, but Mother Nature did not get that Memo, apparently :)

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If you’re reading this in early 2026 and wonder when we might start back up again, a quick call will confirm our

SOD HARVEST FORECAST

– 574-232-6811 – 

is the number to call.