Practical advice for North Bay gardens, from the M&L Rodas Landscape crew.
Both are the right answer somewhere. The mistake is picking on price or principle instead of on the piece of ground the lawn is actually going on.
Nearly every expensive mistake in a landscape renovation is a sequencing mistake: something finished early, then dug up to make room for something that should have gone in first.
Most gardens here are not under-watered. They are watered badly — by a system nobody has looked at since it was installed, on a schedule set for a different season.