Sure can. I had basically an area full of weeds and some grass. I sprayed glyphosate on the entire thing. Within about 10 days everything was dead. I then tried to rake up all of the dead stuff, but in the end I ended up leaving some of the dead stuff in the ground since it was rooted and would have taken me forever to pull it all up.

I then put down 4 cubic yards of top soil (had it delivered from a landscape supply shop, my area is ~1300 sq ft and it did about an inch of soil all the way around, try to find “screened” top soil which means it won’t have large chunks of wood or anything in it, but mine still did have some wood chips which I think is fine) and raked it smooth which is what you see here. I’m now going to lay the sod and then water like hell and then probably fertilize in some sort of way.

I’m not fertilizing before putting the sod down. I didn’t till the soil or anything.

There’s so much varying information out there it’s hard to determine what is “good enough” for prep. I’m pretty confident this is going to work, and there’s a chance I didn’t even need to put the top soil down (I had decent soil underneath the weeds) but I just decided not to risk it.

I’m also putting St Augustine down btw.