noun / verb
sod
SAHD/sɑːd/
Grass-covered soil used as a surface covering.
The sod has green grass above a thick layer of soil and roots.
Etymology
Sode already meant turf: grass together with its supporting earth. Sod apparently comes from this Middle Dutch word or its Middle Low German counterpart; their deeper origin is uncertain.
In context
this can be achieved through a combination of methods including tilling hand weeding or using a sod cutter to remove the top layer of grass and weeds