To ask about your artificial lawn

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Do you love it? Pros and cons? Considering doing ours. Lawn is extremely wet and mossy. Would like it nice for DC to play on. Would be interested to hear from anyone who has one. thanks

I’m considering it for my little backyard. The grass is really struggling and it’s just too shady. My place has a front lawn and I wouldn’t of replacing that with fake grass but for my backyard it’s probably the best option.

OliviaBenson dont worry you won't be able to see it a mile off as only us and 2 neighbours will see it.

Or just the whole world thanks to Google. Spot the artificial grass here!

I was on the verge of getting fake grass for our tiny lawn last year. Winter weather and 2 large dogs turns it into a mudfest.
Got samples, estimate done, just about to pay deposit.
By then it was April. I noticed starlings and blackbirds pulling worms and grubs out of the lawn, and bluetits collecting bits of dead grass for their nests. The mud was starting to turn green.
So I changed my mind.

The dogs get more walks so they don't churn up the lawn.
It always recovers and I enjoy mowing it now I've got a little push mower.
I like the way it changes with the seasons and would hate looking at a patch of green that stayed exactly the same all year.

bettytaghetti I would be more worried about why someone would be snooping on google maps specifically to look at my garden than on whether they 'approved' of my artificial grass

@bettytaghetti God you're right, but as I said before, I'm not doing it for aesthetics. It's a practical place for my DC to play.

I hope the people with the swimming pool considered the environment

Fake lawns are the outside equivalent of a feature wall.

Maybe bad for the environment but It's ace for my dcs health...they are on it rain or shine...they liked the mud patch it replaced (in the first house we had) much less. We also have a large drive...now that's a disaster for the environment (but does mean I don't have to start a parking thread 😁)
My garden also has lots of shrubs, leaves, hidden places, a long -ish hedge, a pond, an overgrown rockery -all good taste here 😁-with lots of bug friendly dark places and a pond...and 2 other lawns as well as the astro. I maintain this is better than my neighbour's perfect lawns and drives and nothing else. 😁

Maybe bad for the environment but It's ace for my dc

You have just succinctly demonstrated everything that is wrong with the me, me, me attitude of society, which is the reason our environment and the climate are going down the shitter. Well done.

Couldn't have said it better myself mynames

Couldn't have said it better myself mynames

Of course I have 😁. Do you drive? Own a dog? Eat meat? Why not stop?

Saying it’s a ‘lazy’ option is hardly a good argument against it 😂 who on earth would want to spend their time sweating with a mower, I don’t have a plastic coating on my yard but damn right I take every lazy option going, in all areas.

Having a kid is absolutely, by far, the absolute worst thing you can do to the environment, I hope all the people protesting plastic ‘lawns’ for environmental reasons are childfree, otherwise you would look a bit of a nob.

They look awful. Like green carpets. I've not seen a nice one yet.

Saying that you can’t speak up against crimes to the environment unless you are 100% eco friendly yourself is absolutely ridiculous. It’s near impossible to be completely impact free - we can all just try out best.
I think people that use this argument do so just to soothe their own conscience.

We're all guilty of crimes against the environment, by having children that will grow up to make demands upon it.

We're all guilty of crimes against the environment, by having children that will grow up to make demands upon it.

Indeed and thus we all have a duty to limit our impacts as much as possible.

NB by choice I don't have kids. I don't use that to justify not doing other things to reduce my carbon footprint etc. Every little helps.

Saying it’s a ‘lazy’ option is hardly a good argument against it 😂 who on earth would want to spend their time sweating with a mower

Me. I LOVE mowing my lawn . Can't wait for the grass to start growing again. It's a little push mower so no trailing cables to get in the way. It makes a lovely relaxing sound as I push it along.
Although I don't sweat, just glow slightly if I speed up to give my arms a bit of a work out.

I have some fake grass to cover a rough concrete path in our back garden. For that use I think it is great. Looks better, softer for children's feet etc. I also recycled it from someone else's left overs. It doesn't like getting caught in the mower though