Review of Synthetic Grass 3 years later.

 Back in February 2018, we renovated the front garden with new garden beds and false synthetic grass laid between them all. I must say it is the best thing we did. It has held up really well despite the very wet weather we get, hail and the hot humid summers.

It has been laid on weed mat and the grass itself is rubber backed. John has found the scraps as I want to experiment with it in the back garden, hopefully on the paving in front of the shed and  new roses and also in the back veg garden area to start with. We originally bought it from Bunnings so it wasn't too expensive, and comes on a roll by the metre.

Scraps from 3 years ago.

This garden is riddled with nut grass and I can only assume the rubber backing has made a huge difference as I have laid weed mat down before, and it grows right through. 

Some weeds do grow but it is on the surface and easily pulled up. The only problem I have found is at the edges, we allowed a little height of grass, but things grow up behind that.

Weeds growing in sides behind grass.

Surface weeds top left, probably zinnia seedlings.

I don't do anything special to look after it and it has taken a hammering from dirt, weeds, and prunings dumped on it. Pots filled with soil leaves a mark but it comes back when moved.

Today I decided to clean an area to show you. There has been a lot of leaves dropping and plants overgrowing because of the rain.

BEFORE ( path closest to the footpath) leaves and soil damp

This one adjoining it at a right angle.

Once pulling out all the minor weeds on the side I grabbed the straw broom and swept everything up.  Also cleaned some of the garden beds. It rained two days ago so was a bit damp.

AFTER  ( path closest to the foot path.)

After right angle one.

If I want to improve it a little more and be a bit OCD I could get the vacuum cleaner, to suck up the soil left after the sun drys everything out, but it will do.

Laying it down originaly

Would I buy it again? YES and in fact we are considering doing so and covering all the pavers with it. They are really hard to weed and we have two choices one to spray weed killer around every 6 weeks or so, then clean all that up. As I expect John to do that I can't see it being done on a regular basis. Two  is  to change it all over to grass then get it mowed, which is a lot of work pulling it all up, getting rid of the pavers, then getting the grass laid down. 

Current paving at the moment. 

This is hard to pull nut grass which is going to seed.

We will spray the whole garden once the weather settles to sunshine everyday, then go from there, maybe even get the Karcher out and I will pressure clean it all first. Definitely the steps will be concreted. I am getting too old to cope with this on top of weeding  the garden regularly, so something has to be done, and John doesn't want to move to an easier house and block, and spends a great deal of his time at or for the Community Garden, which is doing really well.  

The good news is we were notified Friday that we have the Caravan Insurance, after waiting for them to decide 7 weeks later. So booked a spot to go to Burleigh Heads to choose colours, but I liked the sample one gray and white, and will probably stick with that. Apparently now, the  company Pickles will come and get our old one and put it in to Auction, they do that for every caravan written off. Then we get the money. Things are looking up.

Till Next Time.