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Continued from previous page Murff Turf Farm saw temperatures as low as 13 degrees and stayed below 20 degrees for about 36 hours. Lindy said the last time they had a similar freeze was in the early 1980s when they were much smaller. “We are probably doing 15 times more volume of sales now than we were doing back then. So although it hurt back then, I was in high school then so I didn’t pay much attention to those kinds of things,” he said.
Water Usage One thing that Lindy is very hopeful for is that more homeowners will become educated on the irrigation of their lawns and water usage. As he headed into a water board meeting, he explained the board tends to look at lawns and landscapes as the biggest problem with water usage these days. “In my mind, it’s all about education. I grow hundreds of acres of sod without any irrigation supplement. I am growing it by nature, just by rainfall,” Lindy said. “That’s what I’m trying to focus on with this water board. People with their lawns and landscapes don’t have to water nearly as much.” Lindy said the consumer using more water than they need to puts a negative effect on the perception of the sod industry. He is hopeful that more information about grasses thriving with one watering a week instead of getting water every day would be great for the turfgrass industry and the environment overall. “I know grass doesn’t need nearly as much water as people put into their lawns,” he said. He recommends homeowners in Texas look into Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension website called WaterMyYard.org and download their app that gives irrigation recommendations based on weather stations located in the different regions of Texas. Lindy, who graduated college in 1993, is in his 30th year working at the farm full time. He is married with three kids. One just started at Texas A&M the other two are high school and junior high. They reside in Crosby, TX. For more information about Murf Turf Farm, visit https://murffturf.com. Sod Solutions has helped successfully develop and release to the market over 20 different turfgrass varieties over the past 27 years including Palmetto and CitraBlue, St. Augustine, EMPIRE and Innovation™ Zoysia and Celebration, Latitude 36 and NorthBridge Bermudagrass. The company is based in the Charleston, SC area. For all media inquiries or for hi-resolution photos, contact the author Cecilia Brown at cecilia@sodsolutions.com. To view this article on Sod Solutions website click here.
