Sitting Outside On Me Plastic Grass


Love cutting the grass. Easier than hoovering it.
I didn't realise that was a thing until someone I worked with spent a fortune on plastic grass. "It is great, I don't need to cut the grass any more. But well the dog does mess on it, so every weekend I have to go out and clean up but then blast it with a hose. Then wait a few hours and because it picks up loads of debris that is hard to sweep up and doesn't rot into the ground like it does on grass, I have to vacuum it. But I did buy a different vacuum cleaner for the garden in case it breaks the one we use in the house. It only take an hour or so each weekend"

The daft sod only used to spend an hour or so cutting the grass every couple of weeks, and then not for 4-5 months of the year. His time saver had him spending more time and money than just cutting the grass anyway.
 
I didn't realise that was a thing until someone I worked with spent a fortune on plastic grass. "It is great, I don't need to cut the grass any more. But well the dog does mess on it, so every weekend I have to go out and clean up but then blast it with a hose. Then wait a few hours and because it picks up loads of debris that is hard to sweep up and doesn't rot into the ground like it does on grass, I have to vacuum it. But I did buy a different vacuum cleaner for the garden in case it breaks the one we use in the house. It only take an hour or so each weekend"

The daft sod only used to spend an hour or so cutting the grass every couple of weeks, and then not for 4-5 months of the year. His time saver had him spending more time and money than just cutting the grass anyway.
In the winter it will be a slippy nightmare
 
I hoovered mine this morning looks mint

You plainly have no idea what the purpose of artificial grass is. My back garden is overshadowed in part by forest trees so real grass won’t thrive, artificial is the way forward

I get mine treated every month, bloke comes out and sprays our lawns, no idea with what but the result is amazing, no weeds just vibrant lush grass that’s easy to mow.
 
One most environmentally damaging products you can buy.

Rainwater doesn’t absorb so increases flood risk in urban areas, and using instead of grass reduces habitat for insects, worms, and bees (who would feed on daisy’s and dandelions) and ultimately birds and hedgehogs etc.

Makes me hate humans a little bit more every time I see grass replaced with this plastic ecological disaster.
 
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I had no idea hoovering grass was a thing.

What about the layer of sand etc underneath? Surely hoovering it would completely fuck it?
 
One most environmentally damaging products you can buy.

Rainwater doesn’t absorb so increases flood risk in urban areas, and using instead of grass reduces habitat for insects, worms, and bees (who would feed on daisy’s and dandelions) and ultimately birds and hedgehogs etc.

Makes me hate humans a little bit more every time I see grass replaced with this plastic ecological disaster.
Every time I walk past plastic grass I boil up a bit inside, makes me more annoyed than it should really.
 
One most environmentally damaging products you can buy.

Rainwater doesn’t absorb so increases flood risk in urban areas, and using instead of grass reduces habitat for insects, worms, and bees (who would feed on daisy’s and dandelions) and ultimately birds and hedgehogs etc.

Makes me hate humans a little bit more every time I see grass replaced with this plastic ecological disaster.

As soon as our grass is trimmed the blackbirds are on it getting juicy worms for their hatchlings - a lovely sight.
 
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Just to add to the discussion I hate plastic lawns but then again I'm not fond of real lawns either. Half my lawn gets mown regular and kept tidy, the other half get cut two maybe three times a year to encourage wildlife. Love nowt better than seeing flocks of Goldfinches coming down and feeding on the seed heads.
 
One most environmentally damaging products you can buy.

Rainwater doesn’t absorb so increases flood risk in urban areas, and using instead of grass reduces habitat for insects, worms, and bees (who would feed on daisy’s and dandelions) and ultimately birds and hedgehogs etc.

Makes me hate humans a little bit more every time I see grass replaced with this plastic ecological disaster.
I agree completely with this. I leave all the “weeds” in my lawn, leave a few patches of nettles in the out of the way corners of the garden.
 
Not a fan of plastic grass but I'd rather see that than all the paved over front gardens you see nowadays so people can get their 5 cars parked.
Why? It is exactly the same in terms of being an unnatural manmade surface. It’s just green rather than grey.

At least some paved drives have gaps between the stones for rainwater to drain into or small plants to grow out of. Whereas plastic grass is just like one big concrete slab.
 
Why? It is exactly the same in terms of being an unnatural manmade surface. It’s just green rather than grey.

At least some paved drives have gaps between the stones for rainwater to drain into or small plants to grow out of. Whereas plastic grass is just like one big concrete slab.
Why what?
 
Not a fan of plastic grass but I'd rather see that than all the paved over front gardens you see nowadays so people can get their 5 cars parked.
You say that but there is a house round the corner from me with plastic grass out the front, but it's really thinh shit and it's cut in weird strips, it looks like fuzzy felt with overlapping bits and all sorts.

honestly a pile of horse muck would look better
 
You say that but there is a house round the corner from me with plastic grass out the front, but it's really thinh shit and it's cut in weird strips, it looks like fuzzy felt with overlapping bits and all sorts.

honestly a pile of horse muck would look better

I think you can get very natural looking plastic grass now that’s difficult to tell from the real thing, but no doubt expensive.

I still prefer natural grass but each to their own.
 

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