Gass Solutions: For generations and generations of homeowners, there’s been no place like a lawn serving as a centerpiece of landscaping. Alas, for all the aesthetic pleasures that natural grass or sod offers, it comes with multiple bogeys and few solutions to its inherent issues. Most significantly, natural grass requires constant maintenance – watering, mowing, fertilizing – and the only solutions to these problems involve work and/or money. There is no guarantee that a natural grass lawn will stay looking good, since soil or weather or foot traffic conditions will adversely affect the appearance with no easy solutions. A sodded lawn will also go dormant in many climates, so when the grass goes brown the limited solutions usually include painting it green. And for a grass lawn being natural, it’s also true that to keep it looking healthy various chemicals – fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides – will be pumped into the ground, which is not a green thing to do. Grass solutions for today’s homeowners include artificial turfs. These plastic grass solutions involve a lifelike-looking carpet that stays attractive, perfectly green day after day, year after year, maintenance-free. As for the long term, all the cost of an artificial turf lawn is “up front,” whereas natural grass will continue to carry the cost burden of maintenance until it needs to be reseeded or replaced. Finally, artificial turfs are warranted to last for eight years or more and never dies — grass solutions for homeowners who don’t have a green thumb!