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By Paul Hickey, Ledger Columnist It’s the talk of the neighborhood according to insiders on our block.  After years of fronting the most disgraceful patch of landscape this side of Death Valley my wife and I decided to “go green�! We installed Easy Turf. Our lawn had been diminishing in front of our eyes. Each week after the mow and blow gang showed up there was less grass and less dirt because the lawn jockeys discovered that blowing the lawn away was easier than mowing it. To be fair, nothing would grow in our moonscape soil.  Not even mold.  Finally, after trimming the giant pittosporum tree that had for years shaded out any possibility for a lawn of means we realized that indeed, there IS room for a lawn there! Mary, my lovely spouse, who is the office manager for Our Mother Of Good Counsel Catholic Church had become involved with Systems Pavers because they put in a new courtyard at the parish
and had mentioned that they also put in artificial turf. And we were off and running. We ultimately chose Easy Turf for a variety of reasons and have been very happy with the results; a putting green for a lawn that looks like it was mowed an hour before you walked by and it is so lush looking that you get the impression that it is growing in front of your eyes. Here are some of the plusses; dogs fear it, neighbors are jealous; previously lame gardeners hate it; people walk by and stare at you as if you are a scientist; you don’t have to mow it; you don’t have to water it and last but not least the DWP will give you a rebate for putting in a waterless lawn (this is strictly a rumor people—its impossible to get through to them). And when you walk barefoot on it, it feels just like real grass. Paul Hickey lives on Lakeview Terrace East in Silver Lake. Previously, he wrote the Wine and Spirits column for the Los Feliz Ledger.
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