Water Friendly Solutions

The folks at Weed Man lawn care love the beauty of a well kept lawn. Jeff Kollenkark has been in the lawn care business providing healthy green lawns since 1984. Weed Man serves over 3,500 residential and commercial customers by applying timely fertilization, weed, insect, and disease control for lawns and flower beds.  Another essential part of this service is educating the customer on the proper watering and mowing to ensure optimum results.

Knowing that water is a limited and precious resource Jeff launched Aqua Man in 2012 and added James Neufeld who brought nearly 30 years experience in irrigation and water management along.  The emphasis initially was to work with existing Weed Man customers to help them overcome poor sprinkler coverage and reduce water usage.  The focus included system evaluation and needed repairs and secondly to suggest relevant upgrades in heads or controllers to significantly reduce water usage and water plants no more or no less than needed for optimum growth.  James thinks a saving of 30-50% or more is easily achieved with the average homeowner.  It will become increasingly important as water supplies tighten up, the number of watering days decrease, and the cost of water increase.

The drought situation is getting increasingly more worrisome.  Weed Man has seen 1-2 customers a week decide to install artificial grass as they are concerned about the water restrictions and the inability to water enough. Many of them could keep their lawn with help from Weed Man and Aqua Man addressing alternative watering and irrigation upgrades, but their mind is made up to eliminate the lawn.  In an effort to provide the valley with viable solutions the addition of a third company was added in January.  Grass Creations offers the most realistic looking artificial turf available from lawns to putting greens. Concrete bed curbing is offered as well to show off the turf and flowerbed boarders.  Craig Bettencourt was brought on to oversee the 13 year old business with 5 experienced installers.  Craig has been in landscape construction for over 15 years and loves to create beautiful landscapes.  He is happy to talk about landscape lighting and proper plant selection as well.

Weed Man, Aqua Man, and Grass Creations are excited to be able to create raving fans while at the same time support roughly 27 full time employees and numerous part time personnel.  We love to provide great results.  We love our employees and our customers.  Together the companies can offer reasonable solutions to individual homeowners to meet their desires.  The common thread to all three is to provide a great product the customer wants while reducing the need for water.

Jeff Kollenkark and his family have lived in Clovis since 1984.  His family includes Melissa, his wife of 40 years this summer, 5 children and soon to be 16 grandchildren. Jeff also loves to regularly volunteer up at Hume Lake Christian Camps and work in a few rounds of golf as time allows.