Eye on the Street
Decatur Metro | May 14, 2012
Artificial turf on Trinity Avenue. Decatur, GA (pic submitted by Chris)
Artificial turf on Trinity Avenue. Decatur, GA (pic submitted by Chris)
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We’ve always liked this artificial turf- in small doses it looks good.
I wish the pending renovations to the dirt and grass on the square would consider this as an option. Not very green i know but might be a good idea in that ultra high traffic area???
It can be very green actually. No watering and no mowing(gas/exhaust). I’m not sure how it would do in a high traffic area, but I have a friend in Southern California that got this -http://www.synlawn.com/ – for the his small backyard and he loves it. I haven’t seen it in person yet, but I’ll take his word for it. He said it’s very low maintenance.
Are the weeds also artificial to help with the authenticity factor?
Nope those are genuine weeds. Just goes to show, you even have to weed the plastic stuff if you want it to look good.
Is that real? I love that –
Do we have a Decatur ordinance about how one can use artificial turf for lawns? That’s a surprisingly legitimate question comign from me. I was just in LV at a conference and the artifical turf I saw at some resorts was very convincing.
I’ve got a tiny front yard under a giant oak tree, and could landscape with mulch and plants, but I just can’t come to grips with the idea that the kids won’t have any ‘grass’ to play on.
+1 I want to know too. My front and back yards aren’t tiny but all the more reason to have artificial turf! How does it look in large doses? I can’t imagine it looks much worse than ours sometimes does naturally. What kind of maintenance does it need? Can you just hose it off periodically? Does it get moldy like everything else in this climate? A lawn full of moldy grass wouldn’t look nice. Does it start to smell moldy or otherwise rank? Do leaves and animal droppings cause problems? Do the squirrels and chipmunks get confused or somehow make holes in it? There’s got to be some good reasons this isn’t used on a large scale already. Sigh.
I’m sure it would be acceptable in Decatur, G Buck. It contributes to LEED points!
This may be my lawn’s saving grace:
http://www.synlawn.com/
Just read the maintenance instructions and they look like a lot more work than what we currently do with our sad lawn.
Seriously! That’s more work than I am willing to do to keep the inside of the house clean! It’s pretty and all, but it would create a whole new dimension of outrage when somebody let their dog poop in my yard! And cleaning up after a barbecue could be more trouble than after an indoor dinner party. …
“…For lightly soiled areas, it may be necessary to sponge mop with a five (5) percent solution of low sudsing household detergent in hot water followed by a thorough rinsing with hot water….. It is always easier to clean up a fresh spill than one that has dried and hardened. Remove any solid or paste-like deposit with a spatula or table knife. Blot up excess liquids with paper towels, a clean cloth, or a dry absorbent, such as kitty litter or fuller’s earth. Dry absorbents can then be swept or vacuumed up afterwards…..”
It continues with substantial lists of which cleaning products can be used to remove which types of stains…. Routine maintenance includes cross-brushing….. Actually, this is giving me my best laugh of the week so far.
Watched a lawn of this installed on InDoors Out, one of those home redo shows. This is the hot thing in dry areas such as Vegas. Laid out like a big green rug and tamped down and sort of nailed into place like carpet. Then sand is put on to hold it down, then green silica (?) sand to improve the look and make the blades stand up. The final step was fluffing the blades with a roller needle kind of thing.
It looked surprisingly good for fake grass.
They color the blades in shades now so you don’t get that uniform AstroTurf color.