It’s always green, never needs mowing and saves a bundle on your water bill.  Synthetic turf may be the answer to keeping a grass-like lawn yearround, without the cost of keeping up the real green stuff. 

Green Living Services installs about 10 different types of turf, from the lawn variety to commercial landscape to football fields.  Harry Jackson, owner of Green Living Services, says turf has many advantages over lawn and desert rock landscape.  He says the water savings is the biggest benefit.  The second is its durability.  The warranty for turf is about 8 years, but synthetic lawn can last 10 to 15 years. 

The hot desert sun can definitely heat up the surface of artificial grass, reaching 130 to 140 degrees in the middle of a summer day.  But Jackson says a squirt of water cools it down quickly enough for the kids to play on it - even in the heat of the day.   And unlike rock which can hold heat for hours even after the sun has left it, turf cools down very quickly once the hot sun moves away, so it doesn’t hold heat around your home like desert rock can.

 Green Living Services also sells a product called, Fresh Fill.  It’s made entirely of crushed natural zeolite - which is volcanic rock - and it neutralizes pet odor when Fido picks out a favorite spot for doing his business.  Sprinkled over the turf, Fresh Fill is 100% safe for pets and kids.  It also helps keep the turf cooler as a substitute for water.

Jackson says turf is durable and clean.  He thinks it’s the perfect answer for saving water, time and the chemicals of fertilizers and polluting emissions of gas-powered lawn mowers.  You can give him a call at 367-TURF and check out their website at www.AGDwest.com  Harry also says you can e-mail him directly at harry@AGDwest.com; he’d like to hear from you.