how to remove and replace find you may find yourself standing perplexedly at the edge of your lawn trying to figure out why grass grows where you don't want it and doesn't grow where you do or you have healthy grass in spot where you want to put in a flowerbed and you would like to use that grass elsewhere you can work with these scenarios to move your turf grasses on successfully to another spot things you will need work gloves half-circle hand edger Spade wheelbarrow garden hose removing sod put on work gloves outline the area of turf grass to be removed with a hand edger cut this area into regular shaped manageable pieces about 18 inches long and as wide as your Spade you now have a delineate adair iya criss-crossed with regular cuts into the grass grasp the Spade to get it under the turf grass and cut the pieces out making them about as deep as your thumb two to three inches down balancier need for substantial roots left in the side with the need to not take all of the dirt away jab the point of the spade where you want to cut lower the handle so the Spade is parallel to the ground press with your foot to cut the sod with practice you can cut up a piece of sod in a couple of minutes set the first piece of sod in your wheelbarrow with the grass up place the next layer of song width the grass down your goal is for soil to touch soil and grass to touch grass replanting sod loosen the top couple of inches of soil with your Spade in a stick tine garden rake to prepare the ground that will accept the sod rake the ground even and moisten it slightly by misting it with water from the garden hose line up the straight edges on the sod pieces against the outer edge of your planting area follow a running bond brick pattern staggering the pieces so you don't end up with columns of sod lay a white board on the soil to pack the sod down step heavily on the board or alternatively randah roller to pack the sod water the site for several days to reduce shrinkage and browning keep foot traffic off the side while it takes tips warnings see the newly planted sod to reduce the chance of having visible seams don't let the sod sit up for more than a day or two you