About Mission Elite Sod & Turf: Sod Installation Pros in TX
Mission Elite Sod & Turf has spent over 15 years putting in lawns and irrigation across Hidalgo and Starr counties, and the two jobs really are one job. A pallet of perfect St. Augustine on top of a system with a dry zone is a very expensive way to grow a brown triangle. We would rather fix the water first and sell you slightly less grass.
The Upper Valley has its own quirks. Rain here is thinner than down at the coast, most of the irrigation water in the county has been through a canal at some point and carries a salt load with it, and the delta clay loam tests alkaline enough that new grass goes yellow from locked-up iron rather than hunger.
North of the expressway the ground rises and caliche shows up, which stops roots and perches water at the same time — an impressive trick for a rock. Then February 2021 came through and killed St. Augustine outright across the Valley, which taught a lot of people the difference between dormant and dead.
So we test the soil, test the water, probe for caliche and design the irrigation before anyone talks about grass. We install Raleigh and Palmetto St. Augustine, Floratam, TifTuf and Tifway 419 Bermuda, Celebration, and Palisades, Emerald and Zeon Zoysia, and we do the sprinkler systems, drip zones, drainage and grading ourselves rather than subbing them to whoever is free that week.
Most of our volume is builder phases, HOA common areas, apartment properties and commercial campuses around Mission, Sharyland, McAllen and Edinburg, with a steady stream of front yards in between. We are a licensed and insured landscape contractor, bonded, a member of the Texas Nursery & Landscape Association, with a Texas Department of Agriculture licensed applicator on staff. Every install carries a written 30-day establishment guarantee. Se habla español, and the estimate is free.
If you have a sod installation project in Mission, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Mission service we handle, check whether we cover McAllen, TX and the rest of the Upper Rio Grande Valley, or go back to the Mission Elite Sod & Turf homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (877) 684-2382.
Credentials
- Experience: 15+ years serving the Upper Rio Grande Valley
- License: Licensed landscape contractor, TDA-licensed applicator on staff
- Insurance: Fully insured and bonded
- Association: Texas Nursery & Landscape Association
- Warranty: 30-day sod establishment guarantee
How Mission Elite Sod & Turf works
How a job with Mission Elite Sod & Turf runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. 30-day sod establishment guarantee backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a sod installation job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Mission.
Where Mission Elite Sod & Turf works and who we work with
Mission, TX first, then the surrounding communities of the Upper Rio Grande Valley: McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Alton, Donna, Palmview and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across the Upper Rio Grande Valley. Start with the Mission services, the Mission Elite Sod & Turf homepage, or just call (877) 684-2382.
Why Mission Chooses Mission Elite Sod & Turf
- ✓Sod and irrigation designed and installed by the same crew, one scope, one warranty
- ✓Soil test and water test before the quote — canal, well and city water are not the same
- ✓Caliche probing on the higher ground north of Mission before anything gets planted
- ✓Builder and subdivision turf packages taken by the phase, with as-built zone maps at turnover
- ✓Raleigh, Palmetto, Floratam, TifTuf, Tifway 419, Celebration, Palisades, Emerald and Zeon
- ✓Written 30-day establishment guarantee with a follow-up visit
- ✓Se habla español
What Mission Customers Say
They found caliche about eight inches down that two other bids never mentioned, broke it up, then put in the sprinklers and the sod together. Second summer and the lawn has not thinned once.
We had one zone that never worked right and I had been running the whole system longer to make up for it. They fixed the zone, reprogrammed the controller, and my water bill dropped. Then they laid the new Bermuda.
Did turf and irrigation for our whole phase. Stayed on the builder schedule, staged the pallets out of the way of the concrete crew, and handed over zone maps at turnover. Warranty calls on landscaping basically stopped.
They tested our canal water before quoting and put in a proper sand filter. The old drip lines used to clog every spring. Two seasons now with no plugged emitters.
HOA entry looked terrible every winter. They overseeded with rye in October and managed the transition in spring so the Bermuda came back strong. Board voted to keep them on contract.
New grass kept going yellow. They actually pulled a soil sample instead of just selling me fertilizer, showed me the pH, and amended the bed before laying Raleigh. It stayed green all summer.
Service Areas
Mission Elite Sod & Turf serves Mission, TX and surrounding communities including: