Heritage Turf Farms Site Map - premier seed and sod producer in the Southeast

Our sod products include Centipede, Tifway Bermuda, Empire™ Zoysia, and Palmetto™ St. Augustine. We can also provide other types upon request. Below is a map and brief description of each variety we produce that may help you decide which variety is best for you. 

Simplified Zone Hardiness Map


Centipede: A warm season, thick sod forming, uniform growing, and medium to light green colored grass. It is a slow growing, creeping grass with short stems growing upward. This makes it resemble a centipede insect and is why it got its name. Centipede is the lowest maintenance of the warm season grasses which makes it an excellent choice for the home lawn.  
 How to Grow and Maintain Centipede Guide
Centipede Lawns
Fixes for Your Centipede Lawn

 

 

 

Tifway Bermuda: Bermuda grass is the most sun loving of the warm season lawn grasses. Tifway is darker green and slightly coarser than other Bermuda varieties, produces an extremely dense turf and, once established, maintains a dense and attractive turf with somewhat less fertilizer than any other Bermuda.  This is the variety of turf you most often see on golf courses and athletice fields.

 

 

 

 

 

Empire™ Zoysia: EMPIRE was discovered in Brazil,  and unlike other Zoysia varieties, has proven its ability to thrive in hot, humid conditions. EMPIRE has performed well in sandy and clay soil types with aggressive growth from its runners and rhizomes, but can be mowed with a standard rotary mower due to its broader leaf and open growth habit. It requires less maintenance and mowing than other grasses such as Fescue or Bermuda.

 

 

Palmetto™ St. Augustine: A native seashore plant, St. Augustine has been popular along the lower Atlantic and the Gulf Coasts for several decades. It has broad blades and large, coarse stems, but produces a fairly compact sod subject to slight weed invasion. St. Augustine is the most shade tolerant of all permanent hot climate grasses and performs well in wet soils and under salt spray. Basically a tropical plant, most St. Augustine varieties are ill-adapted as far north as Atlanta. However, Palmetto St. Augustine demonstrates superior shade, cold, frost, heat, and drought tolerance. This versatile turfgrass is used across the southern United States from the Carolinas to California under a wide range of climate and soil conditions making it an ideal choice for residential and commercial use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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