Alternative Green Lawn

Never underestimate the power of freaking out the neighbors. This has been an Indian summer of legendary proportions, stemming largely from the three straight months of triple digit cooking that our yard has endured. Simply put, no amount of incessant watering seemed to quench the thirst of our rapidly yellowing yard, and when it came time to fight the relentless heat well into August, we kind of figured that enough was enough. Well, that, and we saw a news piece on a new kind of lawn treatment. Go figure.
Turns out the treatment itself isn’t entirely new (it’s been around in one form or another for awhile to keep golf courses and high traffic areas green), but the organic twist on it appears to be totally new. In short? We went and got our lawn ‘painted.’ It can be a little spendy, but your perspective on spendy really weighs mostly in relation to how much you wish your yard was green. In this case, or grass had been suffering in broad daylight since June, and no matter of manicuring could keep that sucker looking anything other than ex-​gunslinger dead.
It’s about a three to four hour process (perhaps less contingent on the size of your yard), and they obviously can’t make it look like there’s green grass where none has grown, so if you have some dirt patches those are hard to fix. But otherwise? Proof’s in looking at it day over day… and watching the neighbors try to sort out how it happened.