Grass Solutions: For the majority of homeowners, grass serves as a focal point of residential and commercial landscaping.  Unfortunately, for all the aesthetic pleasure that sod can offer, it’s known as a high maintenance feature – the low point.  The dream has been a low maintenance turf … a dream realized with today’s artificial turf.  Natural grass is anything but a low maintenance turf.  It requires regular upkeep – watering, mowing, fertilizing, weeding – and the solutions to these issues involve work and/or money, or the opposite of a low maintenance turf.  While artificial turf is considered low maintenance, it also typically is warranted to stay green for eight years or more.  Natural grass has no guarantee that it will stay looking good, as soil,  weather and foot traffic conditions can affect its appearance to low levels and increase maintenance .  Sodded lawns go dormant in some climates, so when the grass goes brown the solutions involve painting it green (again, not a characteristic of low maintenance turf).  The low-maintenance turf of tomorrow, synthetic grass, is here today.  It’s a lifelike-looking carpet that looks attractive, perfectly green day after day, year after year, a turf requiring low or no maintenance compared to natural grass.  In addition, the full cost of a synthetic grass lawn is “up front,” so there is a low maintenance turf cost as years go by … or, no cost.  Compare this low maintenance turf to the cost burden natural grass demands until it needs to be reseeded or replaced.