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Dieter's Sod has been purchasing sod from Bethel Farms for approximately 10 years now. At present, we are working on many joint ventures with Bethel Farms & our company. Bethel Farms is supplying all Zoysia for the Legends Bay project. Also in the past Bethel Farms furnished all the material needed to complete East Lee County High School. We are also associate members of the Florida Sod Growers Association where we share a good working as well as a social relationship with Will Nugent & his staff.
Dieter's Sod Service, Inc. is committed to prompt service, high quality products that are purchased from the surrounding areas finest sod growers. We also provide the best workmanship possible. We are dedicated to setting a new standard & professional image for the sod installation industry.
Our services include but are not limited to-sod installations, sod deliveries, lawn renovations, residential and commercial installations. These include athletic fields, grading and initial watering plus fertilization and maintenance. We are a licensed, insured and bonded full service installation company.
Owners -Dieter & Carole Zoellner want to thank all of our past, present, and future clients who have contributed to our 14th year of continued success.
MANATEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
2007 Small Business of the Year Award Winner
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Circle C Farms works with several top growers across the southeast. Bethel Farms outstanding turf quality and customer service is unsurpassed. Circle C Farms and Bethel Farms work hand in hand to spread the good news of EMPIRE turf. It is our opinion that this grass is the best of the best. Providing aesthetics and function while at the same time this turf meets the demand of environmentally friendly landscape designs.
Circle C Farms is family owned and operated with a total commitment to premium turf grass and superior customer service.
Our business offers an array of turf grass varieties to serve all of our customers' needs. Circle C Farms supplies sod to builders, landscapers, golf courses, and directly to the homeowner. All of our sod is cut fresh to order and is available for delivery or pick up from our depot location.
Our wholesale prices are competitive and our retail prices are affordable. We strive to meet every customer's needs to ensure that they are our number one focus. Our services include: sod delivery, sod installation and renovation. We also offer a full service Lawn Maintenance Program.
Offering Celebrated Plants through internet sales or on site pick up is our newest endeavor. Celebrated Plants is a line of ornamental grasses and grass-like plants released in response to horticultural industry needs for improved performance, superior aesthetics, and lower maintenance plants.
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"I love this grass. When we started looking for an alternative to St. Augustinegrass, the first thing that attracted me to EMPIRE was esthetics. We are trying to create the aura of backyard Americana and I fell in love with the appearance of EMPIRE before we even began to evaluate its performance."
Reunion Resort Selects Bethel Farms' EMPIRE as Preferred Landscape Turfgrass
Bethel Farms' EMPIRE™ Zoysia has been chosen as the exclusive landscape turfgrass at Reunion Resort & Club, a 2300-acre development just south of Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.
"This is a great grass," said Mark Cole, Director of Golf Course Maintenance for Ginn Golf, a division of the company that is developing Reunion and several other upscale communities in Florida and South Carolina. "It's shade tolerant, heat resistant, and drought resistant. We can take it down to 7/16-inch and put it on tee tops in shady areas or we can bring it up to an inch and a half and cut it with a regular rotary mower."
Cole spoke recently to a group of Australian sod producers along with county extension agents and landscape journalists. The Australians were touring the Southeastern U.S. in search of solutions to the island nation's severe five-year drought. As it turns out, Cole wasn't the only one in the group impressed by the performance of Bethel Farm's Empire™.
"I love this grass," said Kevin Clingerman, Landscape Manager for Ginn. "When we started looking for an alternative to St. Augustine grass, the first thing that attracted me to EMPIRE was esthetics. We are trying to create the aura of backyard Americana and I fell in love with the appearance of EMPIRE before we even began to evaluate its performance."
Durability and drought-resistance were the first two performance factors that caught Clingerman's attention.
"Reunion is a resort on steroids and a community in progress," he said. "We are perpetually under construction but everything has to look beautiful. We have to be green even if it means putting the grass down before the irrigation system is in."
Cole chimed in: "We put some of it on the ground without irrigation and it got no water for a month and then after half an inch of rain it greened up in two days."
(Note: Although Bethel Farms is pleased to hear this grass performed so well without watering, this is not a recommended practice!)
Perhaps EMPIRE's most remarkable characteristic is its shade tolerance in comparison to other generic Zoysia grasses. Cole and Clingerman took the group to a site shaded by about a dozen mature oak trees and showed a stand of EMPIRE overseeded with winter rye and holding its own.
"That spot never gets any direct sunlight," Cole said, "and it's so shade tolerant that you don't have to change your irrigation practices and it will come out (of overseed) better than Bermuda (grass)."
Neither Clingerman nor Cole has noted any disease problems and one treatment took care of an attack by billbugs. "You can spray anything on it that you'd put on Bermuda grass," Cole said.
"This is a great grass for Florida," he added. "Water drives development in Florida. Because of consumption limitations, we've had to reduce or even eliminate irrigation to established areas to accommodate a grow-in situation on a golf course or major landscape feature. We can trust this grass to come back when we turn the water back on. We've done it numerous times."
Bethel Farms is a certified grower of EMPIRE Zoysia, which was introduced to the United States by Sod Solutions -- a leading developer of improved warm season turfgrasses. Bethel Farms is also a certified grower of other patented Sod Solutions grasses including Palmetto St. Augustine, EMPIRE Zoysia, Celebration Bermudagrass, and Sapphire St. Augustine.
Kevin Clingerman, Landscape Manager for Ginn Golf |
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