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Salty Dog Lawn Care & Landscaping · Serving Wilmington
Sod Installation & Lawn Repair in Wilmington, NC
From Leland, Wilmington is a 10-to-15-minute drive north via US-17 across the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, or through the MLK Jr. Parkway corridor depending on which part of the city the job is in.
New sod fails when the ground isn't ready. We prep the soil — grading, amendment, compaction correction — before anything goes down, then match the grass variety to the site's sun exposure and soil type. We repair patches, replace full lawns, and restore bare areas left behind by construction or drainage work. Sod is installed in the correct seasonal window for coastal North Carolina so it establishes before the next stress period hits.
About Wilmington
Wilmington sits just across the Cape Fear River from Leland, and that short bridge crossing puts Salty Dog within easy reach of a city with two very different faces: the older residential streets of Forest Hills and Sunset Park, and the fast-growing HOA and apartment corridors along Porters Neck Road and the College Road spine. Market Street and Carolina Beach Road each carry their own mix of commercial and residential properties, and the flat coastal terrain means drainage and turf problems here look a lot like they do in Brunswick County -- compacted soils, subdivisions where builder-grade sod never got proper follow-up, and stormwater ponds required in nearly every development built in the last 30 years. Salty Dog's full service range runs across county lines without a gap.
Serving Landfall, Porters Neck, Forest Hills, Monkey Junction and surrounding Wilmington.
Everything we do in Wilmington →Common questions
Do you service Wilmington even though you're based in Leland?
Yes. Wilmington is a primary service area -- the drive across the Cape Fear is short, and the team works regularly in New Hanover County on both residential and commercial accounts.
Can you just repair the bare spots, or does the whole lawn have to be replaced?
For Wilmington customers: sometimes spot repair is enough. We look at why the grass died first — drainage, shade, compaction, foot traffic — because new sod laid into the same conditions meets the same conditions. If the thin and bare areas run across the whole lawn, or the soil underneath is the real issue, we will say so rather than patch over it. We would rather walk the property with you and show you what we are seeing.
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Tell us about your property and we'll come walk it with you. Transparent, upfront estimates for residential projects; detailed proposals for commercial contracts.