Sitting Outside On Me Plastic Grass


Anyone with a lawn; real, plastic or otherwise, should be shot in the street and made an example of.
Lawnist.

Some interesting comments on the thread about plastic grass. So what do we think about plastic flowers in the borders instead of the real thing?
 
Lawnist.

Some interesting comments on the thread about plastic grass. So what do we think about plastic flowers in the borders instead of the real thing?

why would you? Flowers are easy to grow and a few packs of seeds cost less than any plastic ones.
 
Got to love how snobbish some people are about a bit of grass. There are sure to be 100 time more bad grass lawns than there are artificial ones.
Why anyone would want to piss about with lawnmowers, aerators, weeds and mud I have no idea.
Anyone with a lawn; real, plastic or otherwise, should be shot in the street and made an example of.
Concrete jungle all the way
Causes flooding, destroys habit. The dogs still crap on it. It's like plastic flowers - bees hate em. Scratters think they're cool.
Great points but no different to block paving, tiles, decking or any other artificial shite. sign of the times, everything is man made
 
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Had a neighbor with a beautiful lawn, you could play snooker on it. Every single day he'd be out there cutting it, treating it, edging etc etc.
He was the dullest man you'd ever meet, but it seemed to make him happy.
 
Get a lawn, don’t mow it, let nature come in. Ten flower species and counting, finches to eat the flower seeds, a yellow ant hill, little spiders basking in the sun on top of the ant hill, green woodpeckers to eat the ants, loads of other insects and invertebrates, hedgehogs to eat the invertebrates. Sitting with a beer on a fine May Day watching a sea of gently swaying buttercups.
Also the worm casts. Covered with them. Sign of a healthy soil at a time when we’re killing soil globally (and then we’re fucked). Plastic carpet kills soil.
 
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Get a lawn, don’t mow it, let nature come in. Ten flower species and counting, finches to eat the flower seeds, a yellow ant hill, little spiders basking in the sun on top of the ant hill, green woodpeckers to eat the ants, loads of other insects and invertebrates, hedgehogs to eat the invertebrates. Sitting with a beer on a fine May Day watching a sea of gently swaying buttercups.
Also the worm casts. Covered with them. Sign of a healthy soil at a time when we’re killing soil globally (and then we’re fucked). Plastic carpet kills soil.
With lawns there is a very British tradition to want them immaculate. Get rid of moss, get rid of dasies, get rid of clover, etc. I started trying to get my lawn in order but then noticed how much nicer it looks with the white daisies and purple clover. The bees love the the clover and I could see how active the the lawn was with insects. I now leave it. I dig out thistles because that is a bugger if anyone stands on it in bare feet, but apart from that I just leave stuff be. Less work, no chemical treatments and like you I see loads of birds and green woodpeckers appear.

I see some of the massive posh houses on the Rightmove thread, look at the immaculate lawns and think that if I could buy such places, half the lawn would be dug up as a veg patch and a big chunk converted to meadow. The rest I would mow as I do now, every couple of weeks through the summer, but with a high blade. Just to keep the garden usable and easier to pick up after the dog.
 
With lawns there is a very British tradition to want them immaculate. Get rid of moss, get rid of dasies, get rid of clover, etc. I started trying to get my lawn in order but then noticed how much nicer it looks with the white daisies and purple clover. The bees love the the clover and I could see how active the the lawn was with insects. I now leave it. I dig out thistles because that is a bugger if anyone stands on it in bare feet, but apart from that I just leave stuff be. Less work, no chemical treatments and like you I see loads of birds and green woodpeckers appear.

I see some of the massive posh houses on the Rightmove thread, look at the immaculate lawns and think that if I could buy such places, half the lawn would be dug up as a veg patch and a big chunk converted to meadow. The rest I would mow as I do now, every couple of weeks through the summer, but with a high blade. Just to keep the garden usable and easier to pick up after the dog.
Love gardening. Like to keep the beds tidy, hedges trimmed, bushes clipped, and the greenhouse is always shiney, and veggy beds as tidy as possible. But I cannot be f***ing chewed on keeping a stripey immaculate lawn. If clover and daisies want to grow in it, then let them crack on. Mown once a week and edged regular. Looks green and tidy. That'll dee for me.😁
 
Get a lawn, don’t mow it, let nature come in. Ten flower species and counting, finches to eat the flower seeds, a yellow ant hill, little spiders basking in the sun on top of the ant hill, green woodpeckers to eat the ants, loads of other insects and invertebrates, hedgehogs to eat the invertebrates. Sitting with a beer on a fine May Day watching a sea of gently swaying buttercups.
Also the worm casts. Covered with them. Sign of a healthy soil at a time when we’re killing soil globally (and then we’re fucked). Plastic carpet kills soil.
For the past few years we have been leaving about half of our lawn areas unmown. It's lovely - getting more wildflowers every year & the wildlife love it. The rest is cut with a high blade every couple of weeks to keep it usable.
 

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