In water-parched locations, it’s become fashionable and thrifty to guarantee a picture-perfect healthy lawn by just letting it all die and painting it green. One neighborhood in Arizona sprayed 17 acres of dormant grass a healthy emerald color and in doing so saved $70,000 in water costs.
… In the Phoenix area, the average cost of just painting a lawn green costs a homeowner $250 to $350, and in addition to significantly reducing time spent on maintenance they’ll also save the steep costs of watering a lawn in a desert. Most of the bugs are worked out — the paint is obviously non-toxic, and early incidents where the yellow pigment burned off in the sun leaving people with a blue lawn have led to appropriate changes in the composition of the paint — and it’s keeping the lawn painters busy
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