Weekly mowing
Edge, mow, blow off the hard surfaces, drag the clippings off the beds. Fescue and bluegrass on a 5–7 day cadence through the season.
Haysville, KS — south Sedgwick County
Patios that hold. Walls that stand. Lawns that stay sharp.
Thirteen years building paver patios and dry-stack retaining walls — and keeping a steady mow route across the Wichita south side. Same crew on both ends.
Top Seed Lawn and Landscape
Top Seed Lawn and Landscape
Top Seed Lawn and Landscape
About Top Seed
Thirteen years building patios and keeping lawns sharp south of Wichita.
Top Seed started in Haysville in 2013. Sam grew up here — Campus High class — and the shop has been on Shira Circle since the LLC was filed in June of that year. He runs it with Tim McDonald as co-owner; most days it's one truck, the right tools, and the same hands on every job.
The split is the unusual part. Most operators our size pick a lane: mow route OR hardscape. We do both. Tuesday a fescue lawn on the south side gets edged and striped. Wednesday a backyard in Derby gets a new paver patio with a polymeric joint and a 3-foot retaining wall set on a compacted base. The maintenance work pays the week and keeps us close to our customers; the build work is the reason most of them call us in the first place.
The approach hasn't changed. Pre-emergent goes down in March. Aeration and overseed happens mid-September when the nights cool down. Walls are set on real base, not topsoil. Patios get swept with polymeric sand and watered in before we leave.
If it's worth pouring base for, it's worth doing right.
— Sam Rudd, owner
What we do — south Sedgwick
Both sides of the truck.
Recurring lawn care that pays for itself, and build work that lasts a decade.
Landscape maintenance
Spring + fall cleanup, pre-emergent in March, mulch refresh, bed shaping, fall aeration and overseed in mid-September.
Retaining walls
Dry-stack segmental block walls, terraced systems for grade changes, mortared stone where it fits. Set on compacted base with drainage where the soil calls for it.
Paver patios
Herringbone, running bond, basket weave. Full base stack — subgrade, road-base, bedding sand, pavers, polymeric joint. Built for Plains freeze-thaw.
Mulch + bed work
Hardwood mulch refresh, bed edging, plant adds. We pull weeds first, mulch second — not the other way around.
Lawn-health programs
Chemical-light approach focused on thickness and root depth. Aeration, overseed, soil amendment, sensible spot treatment — not a blanket spray calendar.
Build side
How a wall and a patio are actually built.
Cross-sections from three real Top Seed builds. Layers labeled at the depths we actually pour. Cut a wall in half and this is what holds it up — same on a 3-foot garden wall as on a five-footer with a bench in the middle.
Cross-section #1
3-ft dry-stack garden wall
Segmental block, no mortar. Sets a bed grade or a low retaining edge. The base is the part nobody sees and the part that decides whether it stands.
- 6" compacted base
- Three courses of segmental block
- Gravel backfill + 4" drain
Cross-section #2
5-ft tiered wall + bench
When the grade is too steep for one wall, we step it. Two courses with a planting bench in the middle holds back the soil better and looks like it grew there.
- Two courses, stepped grade
- Drain tile behind the lower wall
- Planting bench between courses
Cross-section #3
Paver patio — full base stack
The reason a Top Seed patio doesn't dip after one Plains freeze-thaw cycle: real base, real bedding sand, and a polymeric joint that locks the field.
- 6" compacted road-base
- 1" bedding sand, screeded flat
- Polymeric joint, watered in
“Mowing pays the week. The build work is why most folks call us in the first place — and the reason a Top Seed patio still looks right ten years in.” — Sam Rudd, calling out of Haysville, KS at (316) 558-0983.
How a build job runs
Four steps. Same on every job.
Maintenance is its own rhythm — mow, edge, blow off, repeat. Build work runs on this four-step sequence, whether it's a 60 sq-ft patio landing or a 5-foot tiered wall. The order doesn't change.
Step 01
consult
Consult
A site walkthrough, on the dirt. We measure, look at grade and access, and listen to what you want the space to do. Sketch goes on the clipboard.
Step 02
dig
Dig
Excavation to subgrade — deeper than most crews go. Grade stakes and a string line set the finish elevation before a single block or paver is touched.
Step 03
set
Set
Compacted base in lifts, bedding sand screeded flat, blocks or pavers laid to the string. Torpedo level on every course. The pattern stays true because the base is true.
Step 04
finish
Finish
Polymeric sand swept into the joints, watered in, broom-finish over the field. Walkthrough with you, edges checked, and we don’t leave until you’ve stood on it.
Why we work this way
South-Sedgwick soil has a clay layer that holds water in spring and cracks in late August. A patio set on topsoil moves. A wall without backfill bulges by the second winter. The four steps look slow on paper — they're why the work stays put.
Call Sam directly at (316) 558-0983 — we'll come out, walk the dirt, and quote it from there.
Where we work
Haysville center, south Sedgwick all around it.
Hand-drawn south corridor — the working radius from 530 S Shira Circle. US-81 runs the spine, I-235 caps the north edge where we stop, and Big Slough Creek meanders through the middle like it has for ten thousand years.
How we route
- Haysville — home base on Shira Circle. Most mow days start here.
- Wichita south — Planeview, Oaklawn, Pawnee Prairie. Up 81 a few miles.
- Derby — straight east on Madison. A lot of our paver patios live out here.
- Mulvane & Belle Plaine — south on 81 into Sumner County.
- Clearwater & Peck — west and south-east on 42/53.
We don't run north of Kellogg. Keeps the route tight and the response time honest.
Call Sam at (316) 558-0983.
How a maintenance call works
From the first call to the first cut.
- 01
A phone call
Address, what you're seeing, what you'd like. Five minutes is enough to start.
- 02
Walkthrough
We come out, measure, look at access and grade. Build jobs always get a site visit first — no sight-unseen quotes.
- 03
Written estimate
Clear number, broken out by line item. Mow rate is firm; build work is itemized.
- 04
Scheduled work
Mow route slots within a week. Build work usually inside three weeks — sooner in the off-season.
- 05
Walkthrough + invoice
On build jobs we don't leave until you've stood on the patio. Invoice comes the same day.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
Recent work — south Sedgwick
A few jobs we're proud of.
Paver patio with a curved seat wall 
Backyard paver patio — Wichita south side 
Dry-stack retaining wall — 3 ft, garden grade 
Terraced wall system — 5 ft over two courses 
Retaining wall + path — fall finish 
Striped mow — fescue mix, Derby 
Maintained front yard — Haysville 
Stone path + bed work 
Mid-summer side yard — Mulvane
Reviews — Haysville, KS
What south-side neighbors say.
Sam said the lawn would be very green and thick by mid-summer with hardly any weeds. He delivered exactly that — went beyond what we expected and the price was fair.
Built us a paver patio that's been through two winters and a hard August. Joints are still tight, no shifting at the edges. He sets the base right.
Tree work was professional and the cleanup was honest — he didn't leave a mess to deal with after. Calls back same day.
Hired Top Seed for a small dry-stack wall along the driveway. He came out, measured, came back with a real number. The work matched the estimate to the dollar.
We had two other quotes for a retaining wall. Top Seed was the only one that asked about drainage and grade behind the wall. That told us enough.
Plain pricing
Retaining walls from$38/face foot
Dry-stack segmental walls start near $38/face-ft for a standard 3-ft garden wall, including base and backfill. Paver patios start around $18–$22/sq ft depending on pattern and access. Final number after the walkthrough — we don't quote sight-unseen on build work.
Mowing is a flat weekly rate by lot size, set on the walkthrough. Free estimates anywhere from Haysville to Belle Plaine.
Call (316) 558-0983Questions — Top Seed
Plain answers.
Yes. Single dry-stack courses, a 60 sq-ft paver landing, a one-time cleanup, a mid-season overseed. No minimum.
Call Sam — owner answers
— Top Seed Lawn and Landscape
If we're on a job we'll call back the same day. Haysville, KS.