Artificial grass compared to real grass
Have you thought just how wasteful we are with our precious water supply while we are all still trying to grow real grass in our urban environment, especially in a dry city like Perth with some of the poorest soil (sand) in the world.
Add to this the need to use nitrogen and phosphate fertilisers and herbicides that cause trouble to our waterways and it just does not make sense.
This is the usual scenario:
We put in our expensive irrigation system.
We buy our turf and roll it out. All looks good.
Now we have to start watering it and fertilising it to keep it alive.
It grows so we have to buy a lawnmower or pay someone to mow it for us. Pollution!
The cut grass goes into a wheelie bin and we pay for it to be carted away to the tip.
The weeds also start growing so we have to use herbicides to get rid of them.
Then we start all over again watering and fertilising so we can get rid of it again ???!!!
Add to this the fact that areas that are under shade or experiencing heavy traffic will not grow and soon start becoming unsightly.
After a matter of years most suburban lawns are either replaced completely or have expensive dethatching work undertaken to try and keep them healthy.
This is such a wasteful procedure and now with quality Synthetic turf that looks and feels great you can have a Contemporary Lush Green Lawn all year without any water wastage and also much more time to enjoy your garden.
Artificial grass is not suitable everywhere, especially if you are a dairy farmer! - but for most suburban gardens it is a logical alternative to real grass saving huge amounts of water, work and worries.
Fake grass is especially suitable for hard ware areas like Day Care Centres, Kindergartens and Primary schools where real grass does not survive. Also shade cloth protection for the children with artificial grass is a great match.
Synthetic turf is purpose made with different lengths and densities to suit all requirement from Cricket pitches and bowling greens to football fields and golf putting greens with a huge range of Landscape Lawn turfs in between.
Most domestic installations should last 15-20years with virtually no maintenance - imagine all the saved water and work over that time.
Dogs love it and treat the artificial turf just like real grass but yes you do need to pick up their droppings (everyday preferably) and also wash down the area where they urinate in summer. But no holes and brown patches!
Quality artificial grass is designed to let all rain, even the heaviest storms go through the grass and remain on the property. Installed properly it will take heavier rain than most real lawns without any run off.
So before you spend more money on your new lawn consider the wonderful alternatives that are available. You will be so pleased that you did.
