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This April, just in time for spring green-up, Super-Sod added the Allett Classic and Kensington lawn mowers to their array of landscaping products. The lawn care experts at Super-Sod became enamored with Allett mowers because they are reel or "cylinder" mowers designed and built to deliver professional results, but with homeowner circumstances and budgets in mind.

Reel mowers are desirable because the cylinder of blades rotates against a bed knife, thereby cutting grass with a scissor-like action, versus a rotary mower that chops blades of grass in half with a machete-like action that renders a jagged cut to each blade of grass. The reel's scissor cut makes a clean cut that not only looks tidier - it gives a lawn the advantage of reduced water loss after mowing (a jagged cut has more surface area, thus more water is lost from the plant).

Besides the clean cut, reel mowers are also beneficial for warm-season lawns (zoysia, bermuda, centipede) because reels mow at a lower height than rotary mowers can feasibly mow and, with the lower cut height, reels promote a tighter, denser turf that looks especially handsome. Plus, rollers on professional mowers produce the beautiful striping effect as seen on showpiece lawns.

On Alletts, mow height is extremely easy to adjust with just the turn of a knob and a full-width drum roller on the back produces the sought-after lawn striping patterns. Yet, there is another compelling reason why Allett mowers are so intriguing and functional: they are designed with an interchangeable cartridge system.

A standard blade cartridge comes with each mower, but an additional six feature cartridges (verticutter, dethatcher, lawn brush, aerator, scarifier, and a cartridge with more blades) can be easily removed and replaced to accomplish more lawn care ventures. The Allett Classic and Kensington are more than just lawn mowers, they are multipurpose lawn care machines for home lawns.

Another advantage to having a removable cartridge of blades is that the cartridge alone can be taken to the shop for sharpening, rather than the entire mower. While the one cartridge is sharpened, a spare can be used for mowing, reducing down time of the mower.

Reel mowers are standard equipment on golf courses and a few high-end landscapers own these coveted machines; however, they are normally priced totally out of range of what a homeowner could ever afford. With the Allett Classic priced at $999.00 and the Kensington at $1,609.00, quality reel mowers that will deliver professional results (clean cut, low cut, striping, plus optional cartridge functions) are attainable by homeowners.

Super-Sod is a family-run business that employs experts in turf and horticulture. One of their most popular products has been their Soil3 organic compost, delivered in a cubic yard BigYellowBag, which they make partially from composted grass clippings from their sod production. Super-Sod continues to develop new garden products, foster gardening and landscaping, and always seeks to improve their farming practices, technology, environmental stewardship, and employee knowledge.

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Like most kids growing up in Brazil, Roberto Gurgel dreamed of being on the field for a World Cup.

That never happened. So this summer, Gurgel is settling for the next-best thing by helping to build five of the fields that will be used for the first World Cup in his native country in 64 years.

Gurgel is executive director of research for Sod Solutions, a South Carolina-based company that develops and licenses varieties of grass. One of those varieties, a deep blue-green Bermuda called Celebration, will be used in five of the 12 World Cup venues this summer.

Gurgel said the Maracana, the stadium in Rio de Janeiro that will play host to the final, as well as venues in Brasilia, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza, all have specific issues that required a unique turf like Celebration, which grows differently from most Bermuda.

"It has a very good ability to grow under a significant amount of shade," he said. "Celebration was selected for those stadiums because a lot of them have very tall structures and places for the fans that project a lot of shade on the grass."

The grass is also durable and recovers quickly but it doesn't do well in places like Sao Paulo, which is expected to be cool.

"There's a lot of science involved. It's kind of a tricky thing," said Gurgel, who has made several trips to the sod farm in Brazil where the grass is being grown, then visited again after the grass was installed ahead of last year's Confederations Cup.

He'll follow the World Cup on television, though, and admits he watches the games a little differently from most fans.

"I look more for the grass," he said. "I'm all the time hoping that the camera zooms in to the play so I can look at the grass and not so much at the players or the game. So yes, lately I cheer more for the grass than for the team itself."

Which isn't to say he doesn't have a favorite squad.

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You may notice a slightly more charcoal hue to the artificial turf and a few sharper bounces in the outfield at the Rogers Centre this season.

But whats darker on the eyes is actually softer on the knees. The darker shade and livelier playing surface are the result of changes made by the Rogers Centres grounds crew to extend the turfs lifespan.

Underneath the polypropylene blades of grass think garbage-bag material is an infill of black rubber beads, which are about the size of coarse coffee grounds.

Previously, that infill was a combination of sand and rubber, which, in the four years that the current turf has been in place, had grown hard and compact from the compression that occurs whenever the turf is rolled up and not in use. The sand particles had settled at the bottom, while the rubber bits deteriorated to the size of pepper grains.

It created a very hard field, said Kelly Keyes, vice-president of building services for the Blue Jays.

By the end of last season, Keyes and her crew knew they needed to make a change.

So this off-season the grounds crew, led by Keyes and head groundskeeper Tom Farrell, painstakingly tamped out all of the turfs old infill and replaced it with a fresh all-rubber infill, doing away with the sand mixture. Hence the black streaks and puffs of what look like little black clouds when an outfielder dives on the turf or a ball skips hard on the surface.

Infielder Maicer Izturis said he noticed the difference right away.

Absolutely, its a little softer this year, he said earlier this month, before suffering a knee injury in Baltimore. But the ball jumps a little bit more, too.

But this years improvements are just a stop-gap, a means of squeezing another season out of the current field before purchasing a new AstroTurf field for next season, which will bridge the gap before natural grass is installed by opening day in 2018.

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SANTA CLARA (KCBS) Crews are installing hundreds of rolls of new sod at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara, the new home of the San Francisco 49ers, as officials prepare for the venues first event in August.

On Thursday morning, the rolls of sod were delivered on 13 semi-trucks. The turf, called Bandera Bermuda, is much more water-efficient than your garden variety Bermuda grass.

Hybrid Bermudas tend to be mowed very tightly, so they become very fast. The athletes can really be quite quick on them, said Greg Dunn with West Coast Turf, the company supplying the turf.

West Coast Turf has been cultivating the field in Livingston, part of rural Merced County. The company also supplies sod for AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants, among other professional stadiums.

Dunn said the Bandera blend only requires half as much watering as other varieties of Bermuda. He said they are spoon feeding the grass in its infancy.

Were always feeding it small doses of fertilizer all the time to get it mature and get it strong, Dunn said. What youre looking for is a grass that has a high tensile strength, holds together and provides great footing or cleat-holding capabilities.

The 49ers chose grass over artificial turf because they said players are less likely to get injured.

Although the officials date for the 49ers first pre-season game is not official yet, it will be held in August. Meanwhile, the first athletes to try out the turf will be soccer players, as the first game at the stadium will be a Major League Soccer match between the San Jose Earthquakes and Seattle Sounders on August 2.

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Yankee Stadium has hosted a few soccer matches, including a friendly between Spain and the Republic of Ireland in 2013. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Sharing is never easy, especially when it comes to Yankee Stadium and the needs of both a Major League Baseball and a Major League Soccer team. And while having both teams use the venue as their homeis not ideal, Murray Cook, MLBs fields and facilities coordinator, tells SI.com it is doable.

The New York Times reportedMonday night that New York City FC will play its first three MLS seasons, starting in 2015, in Yankee Stadium, with the official announcement expected next week. With Manchester City FC and the Yankees teaming up to bring MLS to New York City, Yankee Stadium was the logical business choice for a stopgap home.

But logistics have to work on the fieldtoo.

Is it ideal? Cook ponders. It is not the greatest, but it works. It is doable.

MLB and MLS seasons run concurrently, meaning stadium crews must handle 81 baseball games and at least 17 soccer games each year. Weve already seen a taste of what soccer looks like on the Yankee Stadium grass, with the 50,000-seat venue hosting four games in the last two years and another game planned for July 30 when Manchester City plays Liverpool. Without a designated width for a soccer field just parameters to fall within Yankee Stadiums baseball-first design forces a narrower pitch than typically seen. It also requires temporary grass every time soccer is played.

With the field running from the left field wall toward the first base line foul territory, sod must cover the vast majority of infield clay. Cook says laying ready-play sod has turned commonplace.

You literally lay it down and that day you can play on it, he says.

Two MLB and MLS teams streamlined that practice already when the Washington Nationals and D.C. United shared RFK Stadium nearly a decade ago.

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Yankee Stadium has hosted a few soccer matches, including a friendly between Spain and the Republic of Ireland in 2013. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Sharing is never easy, especially when it comes to Yankee Stadium and the needs of both a Major League Baseball and a Major League Soccer team. And while having both teams use the venue as their homeis not ideal, Murray Cook, MLBs fields and facilities coordinator, tells SI.com it is doable.

The New York Times reportedMonday night that New York City FC will play its first three MLS seasons, starting in 2015, in Yankee Stadium, with the official announcement expected next week. With Manchester City FC and the Yankees teaming up to bring MLS to New York City, Yankee Stadium was the logical business choice for a stopgap home.

But logistics have to work on the fieldtoo.

Is it ideal? Cook ponders. It is not the greatest, but it works. It is doable.

MLB and MLS seasons run concurrently, meaning stadium crews must handle 81 baseball games and at least 17 soccer games each year. Weve already seen a taste of what soccer looks like on the Yankee Stadium grass, with the 50,000-seat venue hosting four games in the last two years and another game planned for July 30 when Manchester City plays Liverpool. Without a designated width for a soccer field just parameters to fall within Yankee Stadiums baseball-first design forces a narrower pitch than typically seen. It also requires temporary grass every time soccer is played.

With the field running from the left field wall toward the first base line foul territory, sod must cover the vast majority of infield clay. Cook says laying ready-play sod has turned commonplace.

You literally lay it down and that day you can play on it, he says.

Two MLB and MLS teams streamlined that practice already when the Washington Nationals and D.C. United shared RFK Stadium nearly a decade ago.

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Yankee Stadium has hosted a few soccer matches, including a friendly between Spain and the Republic of Ireland in 2013. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Sharing is never easy, especially when it comes to Yankee Stadium and the needs of both a Major League Baseball and a Major League Soccer team. And while having both teams use the venue as their homeis not ideal, Murray Cook, MLBs fields and facilities coordinator, tells SI.com it is doable.

The New York Times reportedMonday night that New York City FC will play its first three MLS seasons, starting in 2015, in Yankee Stadium, with the official announcement expected next week. With Manchester City FC and the Yankees teaming up to bring MLS to New York City, Yankee Stadium was the logical business choice for a stopgap home.

But logistics have to work on the fieldtoo.

Is it ideal? Cook ponders. It is not the greatest, but it works. It is doable.

MLB and MLS seasons run concurrently, meaning stadium crews must handle 81 baseball games and at least 17 soccer games each year. Weve already seen a taste of what soccer looks like on the Yankee Stadium grass, with the 50,000-seat venue hosting four games in the last two years and another game planned for July 30 when Manchester City plays Liverpool. Without a designated width for a soccer field just parameters to fall within Yankee Stadiums baseball-first design forces a narrower pitch than typically seen. It also requires temporary grass every time soccer is played.

With the field running from the left field wall toward the first base line foul territory, sod must cover the vast majority of infield clay. Cook says laying ready-play sod has turned commonplace.

You literally lay it down and that day you can play on it, he says.

Two MLB and MLS teams streamlined that practice already when the Washington Nationals and D.C. United shared RFK Stadium nearly a decade ago.

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