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Mission Elite Sod & Turf

Every Sod Installation Service We Offer in Mission, TX

One team for every sod installation job in Mission — from st. augustine sod to chinch bug & lawn pest control.

Mission Elite Sod & Turf handles residential and commercial sod installation projects across Mission and the Upper Rio Grande Valley. From st. augustine sod to chinch bug & lawn pest control, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.

Start on the Mission Elite Sod & Turf homepage, read what people in Mission say on our about page, or call (877) 684-2382 and describe what you need in your own words.

Our Sod Installation Services in Mission, TX

St. Augustine Sod in Mission, TX

St. Augustine Sod

St. Augustine sod is still the most requested lawn grass in Mission and the Upper Valley, because it takes the heat, tolerates the partial shade under a mesquite or a live oak, and puts down a thick blue-green carpet that keeps weeds from getting a foothold.

Bermuda Sod in Mission, TX

Bermuda Sod

Bermuda sod is the water-smart choice for a full-sun yard in Mission, and with Upper Valley rainfall running near 21 inches a year that argument gets easier every summer. Hybrid Bermuda uses noticeably less water than St.

Zoysia Sod in Mission, TX

Zoysia Sod

Zoysia sod is the upgrade people ask for once they have owned a St. Augustine lawn and grown tired of feeding it — it grows slowly, so you mow less, and it grows densely, so it crowds out most weeds without a spray program behind it.

Artificial Turf Installation in Mission, TX

Artificial Turf Installation

Artificial turf installation earns its keep in Mission in a short list of places: a side yard the sun never reaches, a dog run real grass has already surrendered, a courtyard too small to bother mowing, and commercial islands surrounded by hot pavement where irrigation never worked properly anyway. Everywhere else real sod is cheaper to install and cooler to stand on, and we will say so before you spend the money.

Commercial & HOA Sod in Mission, TX

Commercial & HOA Sod

Commercial sod installation across Mission, Sharyland and McAllen is where most of our volume goes, and it is a logistics job as much as a landscaping one. We install and irrigate turf for HOA common areas and entries, apartment and multifamily properties, retail and medical campuses, school grounds, city parks and detention basins, priced by the pallet on anything over 10,000 square feet.

Sports Field & Athletic Turf in Mission, TX

Sports Field & Athletic Turf

Sports field turf is judged on two things only: whether it drains and whether the surface is true. We build and renovate soccer pitches, football and multi-use fields, baseball and softball outfields and practice areas for schools, leagues and city parks around Mission and Hidalgo County, almost always on Tifway 419 Bermuda with the irrigation designed as part of the same scope.

New Construction Sod Packages in Mission, TX

New Construction Sod Packages

New construction sod packages are the fastest way to turn a lot full of construction spoil into something a buyer will walk out onto, and around Sharyland and north Mission we take them by the phase rather than by the house. One crew handles finish grading, soil correction, irrigation and turf, so the closing date does not depend on three trades pointing at each other.

Sod Removal & Lawn Demolition in Mission, TX

Sod Removal & Lawn Demolition

Sod removal is the step people try to skip, and laying fresh grass over an old lawn is the most reliable way to waste two thousand dollars in Hidalgo County. We strip the old turf, root mat and weed layer with a sod cutter and haul it off, so the new sod meets soil rather than thatch.

Land Grading & Leveling in Mission, TX

Land Grading & Leveling

Land grading and leveling is the invisible half of every lawn we install, and in Mission it is also where the caliche shows up. We laser-grade to a fall of roughly a quarter inch per foot away from the slab, break or remove the hardpan we find on the higher lots north of the expressway, and cut a route for water to actually leave the property.

Topsoil & Soil Amendment in Mission, TX

Topsoil & Soil Amendment

Topsoil and soil amendment is what you are really paying for when you buy a lawn, because the four inches under the grass decide nearly everything that happens afterwards. Upper Valley soil tests come back alkaline as a matter of routine, often pH 7.8 to 8.3 with free lime and a salt load from years of canal irrigation, which is exactly why new St.

Sprinkler System Installation in Mission, TX

Sprinkler System Installation

Sprinkler system installation is the half of a new lawn that decides whether the other half survives, because nobody hand-waters a yard three times a day for two weeks in a Valley July. We design zones on head-to-head coverage and matched precipitation rates, sized against the pressure actually measured at your meter, with a backflow assembly, a rain sensor and a controller that can run a ten-day establishment program on its own.

Drip Irrigation & Water Saving in Mission, TX

Drip Irrigation & Water Saving

Drip irrigation is the cheapest water you will ever buy, because almost none of it is thrown away to wind drift, evaporation or the sidewalk. We install pressure-compensating inline emitter tubing in beds, hedges, tree rings and narrow strips across Mission and Palmhurst, and convert existing spray zones to drip at the valve for less than most people assume.

Canal & District Water Systems in Mission, TX

Canal & District Water Systems

Canal and district water systems are how a lot of Hidalgo County properties irrigate for a fraction of what treated city water costs, and if your lot has a delivery right, using it is usually the single biggest saving available on a landscape. We design, filter and automate raw-water irrigation for homes, HOAs, orchards and commercial sites across Mission, Palmview and Sullivan City.

Drainage & French Drains in Mission, TX

Drainage & French Drains

French drain installation is the fix when a Mission yard is still squelching two days after a storm, and standing water is the number one reason we get called back to a lawn somebody else installed last year. We build real drains — consistent fall, washed drain rock, perforated pipe laid holes-down, filter fabric wrapping the whole assembly — not a corrugated pipe dropped in a ditch and covered over.

Winter Rye Overseeding in Mission, TX

Winter Rye Overseeding

Winter rye overseeding is how Valley properties stay green from November through March while dormant Bermuda goes straw-colored, and it is the reason HOA entries, hotels and Winter Texan communities around Mission book us every October. We seed annual or perennial ryegrass into existing warm-season turf, and the lawn is green within a couple of weeks.

Lawn Maintenance Programs in Mission, TX

Lawn Maintenance Programs

Lawn maintenance programs decide what your grass looks like in year three, because a new lawn is an asset for about two years and after that it becomes whatever the mowing and the controller made it. We run mowing, edging, aeration, topdressing, dethatching and monthly irrigation checks for homes, HOAs, builders and commercial properties across Mission, Palmhurst and McAllen on weekly, biweekly or monthly rotations.

Fertilization & Weed Control in Mission, TX

Fertilization & Weed Control

Lawn fertilization and weed control in Mission goes wrong on timing more than on product, and most of the fertilizer spread in this county lands at the wrong moment, at the wrong rate, out of the wrong bag. We start with a soil test and then run a season-long schedule of slow-release nitrogen, correctly timed pre-emergent and grass-specific herbicides, applied under a Texas Department of Agriculture applicator license.

Chinch Bug & Lawn Pest Control in Mission, TX

Chinch Bug & Lawn Pest Control

Chinch bug treatment is the call we take most often between June and September: an irregular yellow-brown patch in the hottest, sunniest strip of a St. Augustine lawn that keeps expanding and does not respond to more water.

What each of our services covers in Mission

Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.

St. Augustine Sod

St. Augustine sod is still the most requested lawn grass in Mission and the Upper Valley, because it takes the heat, tolerates the partial shade under a mesquite or a live oak, and puts down a thick blue-green carpet that keeps weeds from getting a foothold. We install Raleigh, Palmetto, Floratam and CitraBlue, and on a west-side lot with canal irrigation the choice between them is not cosmetic.

  • St. Augustine sod
  • Raleigh St. Augustine sod
  • Palmetto St. Augustine sod
  • Floratam sod
  • CitraBlue St. Augustine
  • shade tolerant sod
  • St. Augustine grass pallet
  • St. Augustine sod delivery Mission
  • St. Augustine lawn replacement
  • iron chlorosis St. Augustine
  • large patch treatment
  • St. Augustine sod price per pallet

St. Augustine Sod in Mission, TX

Bermuda Sod

Bermuda sod is the water-smart choice for a full-sun yard in Mission, and with Upper Valley rainfall running near 21 inches a year that argument gets easier every summer. Hybrid Bermuda uses noticeably less water than St. Augustine once established, spreads by both stolons and rhizomes so it repairs its own wear, and takes a low mow that makes a front yard look like a fairway.

  • Bermuda sod
  • TifTuf Bermuda sod
  • Tifway 419 sod
  • Celebration Bermuda
  • hybrid Bermuda grass
  • drought tolerant sod
  • full sun grass Mission
  • Bermuda sod pallet
  • Bermuda grass installation
  • low water lawn
  • sports turf Bermuda
  • common Bermuda vs hybrid

Bermuda Sod in Mission, TX

Zoysia Sod

Zoysia sod is the upgrade people ask for once they have owned a St. Augustine lawn and grown tired of feeding it — it grows slowly, so you mow less, and it grows densely, so it crowds out most weeds without a spray program behind it. We install Palisades, Emerald, Zeon and JaMur around Mission and Sharyland, and the honest trade is more money and more patience up front for a much lower-input lawn afterwards.

  • Zoysia sod
  • Palisades Zoysia
  • Emerald Zoysia
  • Zeon Zoysia
  • JaMur Zoysia
  • low maintenance sod
  • dense turf grass
  • Zoysia sod pallet
  • Zoysia grass installation Mission
  • Zoysia vs St. Augustine
  • soft lawn grass
  • Zoysia sod price

Zoysia Sod in Mission, TX

Artificial Turf Installation

Artificial turf installation earns its keep in Mission in a short list of places: a side yard the sun never reaches, a dog run real grass has already surrendered, a courtyard too small to bother mowing, and commercial islands surrounded by hot pavement where irrigation never worked properly anyway.

Everywhere else real sod is cheaper to install and cooler to stand on, and we will say so before you spend the money. When synthetic is the right answer, almost all of the quality lives below the green part.

  • artificial turf installation
  • synthetic grass
  • artificial grass cost
  • pet turf
  • putting green installation
  • fake grass installation
  • turf infill
  • artificial turf drainage
  • no mow lawn
  • playground turf
  • synthetic lawn Mission TX
  • artificial turf near me

Artificial Turf Installation in Mission, TX

Commercial & HOA Sod

Commercial sod installation across Mission, Sharyland and McAllen is where most of our volume goes, and it is a logistics job as much as a landscaping one. We install and irrigate turf for HOA common areas and entries, apartment and multifamily properties, retail and medical campuses, school grounds, city parks and detention basins, priced by the pallet on anything over 10,000 square feet. The hard part is never the grass.

  • commercial sod installation
  • HOA landscaping
  • apartment complex sod
  • retail center turf
  • office park lawn
  • large acreage sod
  • pallet rate sod pricing
  • commercial turf contractor
  • detention basin sod
  • municipal park turf
  • school grounds sod
  • property management landscaping

Commercial & HOA Sod in Mission, TX

Sports Field & Athletic Turf

Sports field turf is judged on two things only: whether it drains and whether the surface is true. We build and renovate soccer pitches, football and multi-use fields, baseball and softball outfields and practice areas for schools, leagues and city parks around Mission and Hidalgo County, almost always on Tifway 419 Bermuda with the irrigation designed as part of the same scope. Tifway 419 is the standard specification for good reasons.

  • sports field turf
  • athletic field sod
  • soccer field grass
  • football field sod
  • baseball infield turf
  • Tifway 419 sports turf
  • laser grading sports field
  • field renovation
  • practice field sod
  • school athletic turf
  • sports field irrigation
  • goalmouth repair

Sports Field & Athletic Turf in Mission, TX

New Construction Sod Packages

New construction sod packages are the fastest way to turn a lot full of construction spoil into something a buyer will walk out onto, and around Sharyland and north Mission we take them by the phase rather than by the house. One crew handles finish grading, soil correction, irrigation and turf, so the closing date does not depend on three trades pointing at each other. Construction dirt is its own category of problem.

  • new construction sod
  • builder landscape package
  • subdivision turf install
  • spec home lawn
  • production builder sod
  • finish grading new build
  • new home irrigation install
  • phase turf installation
  • tract home landscaping
  • builder turnover landscape
  • new build lawn Mission
  • model home landscaping

New Construction Sod Packages in Mission, TX

Sod Removal & Lawn Demolition

Sod removal is the step people try to skip, and laying fresh grass over an old lawn is the most reliable way to waste two thousand dollars in Hidalgo County. We strip the old turf, root mat and weed layer with a sod cutter and haul it off, so the new sod meets soil rather than thatch. It feels efficient to skip.

  • sod removal
  • old lawn removal
  • sod cutter service
  • grass removal and haul away
  • lawn demolition
  • weed lawn replacement
  • Bermuda grass removal
  • lawn tear out
  • yard clearing
  • turf stripping
  • remove grass before sod
  • lawn renovation Mission TX

Sod Removal & Lawn Demolition in Mission, TX

Land Grading & Leveling

Land grading and leveling is the invisible half of every lawn we install, and in Mission it is also where the caliche shows up. We laser-grade to a fall of roughly a quarter inch per foot away from the slab, break or remove the hardpan we find on the higher lots north of the expressway, and cut a route for water to actually leave the property. Plenty of Valley yards manage the opposite.

  • land grading
  • yard leveling
  • lawn grading service
  • laser grading
  • regrade yard for drainage
  • negative slope correction
  • foundation drainage grading
  • bumpy lawn repair
  • lot grading
  • caliche removal
  • new construction finish grade
  • finish grading Mission TX

Land Grading & Leveling in Mission, TX

Topsoil & Soil Amendment

Topsoil and soil amendment is what you are really paying for when you buy a lawn, because the four inches under the grass decide nearly everything that happens afterwards. Upper Valley soil tests come back alkaline as a matter of routine, often pH 7.8 to 8.3 with free lime and a salt load from years of canal irrigation, which is exactly why new St. Augustine goes pale yellow six weeks after install while the owner swears they fertilized it.

  • topsoil delivery
  • soil amendment
  • compost topdressing
  • sandy loam delivery
  • soil test lawn
  • alkaline soil correction
  • elemental sulfur soil
  • gypsum for sodium soil
  • chelated iron treatment
  • iron chlorosis lawn
  • soil salinity test
  • fill dirt delivery Mission TX

Topsoil & Soil Amendment in Mission, TX

Sprinkler System Installation

Sprinkler system installation is the half of a new lawn that decides whether the other half survives, because nobody hand-waters a yard three times a day for two weeks in a Valley July.

We design zones on head-to-head coverage and matched precipitation rates, sized against the pressure actually measured at your meter, with a backflow assembly, a rain sensor and a controller that can run a ten-day establishment program on its own.

Before we install grass we test whatever is already in the ground, and roughly half the time there is a dry zone the owner has been quietly compensating for by overwatering the whole yard.

  • sprinkler system installation
  • irrigation system install
  • lawn sprinkler repair
  • rotor and spray heads
  • irrigation zone design
  • smart irrigation controller
  • backflow preventer install
  • sprinkler head replacement
  • irrigation audit
  • rain sensor installation
  • licensed irrigator Texas
  • sprinkler system cost Mission TX

Sprinkler System Installation in Mission, TX

Drip Irrigation & Water Saving

Drip irrigation is the cheapest water you will ever buy, because almost none of it is thrown away to wind drift, evaporation or the sidewalk. We install pressure-compensating inline emitter tubing in beds, hedges, tree rings and narrow strips across Mission and Palmhurst, and convert existing spray zones to drip at the valve for less than most people assume. The physics are not complicated.

  • drip irrigation installation
  • subsurface drip irrigation
  • water conservation landscaping
  • inline emitter tubing
  • drip line for flower beds
  • low volume irrigation
  • smart irrigation controller
  • water saving lawn
  • drip conversion spray zone
  • landscape water audit
  • efficient irrigation Mission TX
  • reduce water bill lawn

Drip Irrigation & Water Saving in Mission, TX

Canal & District Water Systems

Canal and district water systems are how a lot of Hidalgo County properties irrigate for a fraction of what treated city water costs, and if your lot has a delivery right, using it is usually the single biggest saving available on a landscape. We design, filter and automate raw-water irrigation for homes, HOAs, orchards and commercial sites across Mission, Palmview and Sullivan City. Raw water is cheap and it is not clean, and that distinction is the whole job.

  • canal irrigation hookup
  • irrigation district water
  • raw water landscape irrigation
  • sand separator filtration
  • irrigation pump installation
  • flood irrigation to sprinkler conversion
  • well water irrigation system
  • salinity leaching schedule
  • non potable irrigation
  • raw water filtration
  • reduce irrigation water cost
  • Hidalgo County irrigation water

Canal & District Water Systems in Mission, TX

Drainage & French Drains

French drain installation is the fix when a Mission yard is still squelching two days after a storm, and standing water is the number one reason we get called back to a lawn somebody else installed last year.

We build real drains — consistent fall, washed drain rock, perforated pipe laid holes-down, filter fabric wrapping the whole assembly — not a corrugated pipe dropped in a ditch and covered over. The conditions here work against you in two directions at once.

  • French drain installation
  • yard drainage solutions
  • standing water in yard
  • catch basin installation
  • channel drain driveway
  • downspout extension
  • surface drainage system
  • sump and pump discharge
  • foundation drainage
  • swale grading
  • wet yard repair
  • drainage contractor Mission TX

Drainage & French Drains in Mission, TX

Winter Rye Overseeding

Winter rye overseeding is how Valley properties stay green from November through March while dormant Bermuda goes straw-colored, and it is the reason HOA entries, hotels and Winter Texan communities around Mission book us every October. We seed annual or perennial ryegrass into existing warm-season turf, and the lawn is green within a couple of weeks. Whether it is worth doing depends honestly on the property.

  • winter rye overseeding
  • annual ryegrass overseed
  • perennial ryegrass overseeding
  • green lawn in winter Texas
  • overseed dormant Bermuda
  • winter lawn Valley
  • fall overseeding service
  • ryegrass seeding rate
  • spring transition ryegrass
  • snowbird lawn care
  • winter turf color
  • overseeding cost

Winter Rye Overseeding in Mission, TX

Lawn Maintenance Programs

Lawn maintenance programs decide what your grass looks like in year three, because a new lawn is an asset for about two years and after that it becomes whatever the mowing and the controller made it. We run mowing, edging, aeration, topdressing, dethatching and monthly irrigation checks for homes, HOAs, builders and commercial properties across Mission, Palmhurst and McAllen on weekly, biweekly or monthly rotations. The mowing season here effectively never closes.

  • lawn maintenance program
  • lawn mowing service
  • edging and trimming
  • seasonal lawn care
  • HOA grounds maintenance
  • commercial landscape maintenance
  • lawn aeration
  • topdressing service
  • dethatching St. Augustine
  • scalping Bermuda lawn
  • irrigation checks maintenance
  • lawn care Mission TX

Lawn Maintenance Programs in Mission, TX

Fertilization & Weed Control

Lawn fertilization and weed control in Mission goes wrong on timing more than on product, and most of the fertilizer spread in this county lands at the wrong moment, at the wrong rate, out of the wrong bag.

We start with a soil test and then run a season-long schedule of slow-release nitrogen, correctly timed pre-emergent and grass-specific herbicides, applied under a Texas Department of Agriculture applicator license. A fertility program should be built on data rather than on what is stacked by the register.

  • lawn fertilization program
  • weed control service
  • pre-emergent application
  • post-emergent broadleaf control
  • nutsedge control
  • crabgrass prevention
  • slow release nitrogen
  • soil test fertility plan
  • iron chlorosis treatment
  • St. Augustine weed control
  • licensed applicator Texas
  • lawn feeding schedule Mission TX

Fertilization & Weed Control in Mission, TX

Chinch Bug & Lawn Pest Control

Chinch bug treatment is the call we take most often between June and September: an irregular yellow-brown patch in the hottest, sunniest strip of a St. Augustine lawn that keeps expanding and does not respond to more water. In the Valley the southern chinch bug is the most destructive lawn insect there is, and because the damage mimics drought stress almost exactly, most people water harder and speed it up.

  • chinch bug treatment
  • lawn pest control
  • white grub control
  • fire ant treatment lawn
  • armyworm control
  • sod webworm treatment
  • mole cricket control
  • St. Augustine chinch bug damage
  • large patch fungus treatment
  • take-all root rot
  • lawn disease diagnosis
  • turf insect control Mission TX

Chinch Bug & Lawn Pest Control in Mission, TX

What Mission property owners ask us

Which sod installation services does Mission Elite Sod & Turf handle?

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Mission and the Upper Rio Grande Valley. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Can I combine more than one service in a single job?

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling sod installation work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Do you give free estimates for every service?

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.

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.
Hector L. · Mission
★★★★★
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.
Brenda C. · McAllen
★★★★★
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.
Javier O. · Sharyland
★★★★★
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.
Norma R. · Palmhurst
★★★★★
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.
Danny S. · Edinburg
★★★★★
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.
Alma G. · Alton
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