Artificial grass

ul swap the mower for the hoover roy. Hows neighbours gona feel seeing you do your freddie mercury out on the lawn. Was best kept indoors that.

 

We had it down in the back last year, the soil is so clay’y and holds water that it’s unusable for 7 months of the year, as it’s a bog and the grass is knackered. I love it now. In the ledger of crimes against the environment I think I’m doing ok, even if I’ve put a patch of plastic grass down, while countries and companies rape the planet. I try to keep my footprint as small as possible.

 

Do you have a drive or a conservatory or ever had an extension? What about a path? A shed or garage? If so, I hope you rip them out and put some grass down to foster life on that space instead. Bossman said he’s already got two good sized lawns, why does every space that’s not his house have to be grass? Lots of people have paving stones and patios in their garden, are they the devil too? As for artificial grass being plastic, it’s not single use that he’ll throw away at the end of every day. Have you cut out every single unnecessary piece of plastic out of your life?

I don’t have artificial grass but I do dislike when people are hypocrites and judge others.

 

How big is your house out of interest?

 

Think about it, it’s soft, drys much much quicker than normal grass & doesn’t get sludgier the more they play on it & use equipment such as slides etc.

 

Well thanks for the hypocrite test which I haven't really got time to answer in full. But it would be ' no' to all of those except the shed. I actually broke a couple of cement yards up for a lawn in houses that I lived in which was really tough work, but immensely rewarding. I obviously wasn't talking about any form of non-grass dwelling being evil. I'm talking about how mad it is in my eyes to replace grass with plastic grass.

I'm also not calling people devils.I do think it's selfish on transforming a natural environment into a sterile human one, yes. I'm outlining why I feel passionately against this particular act.
The two stock responses to this kind of critique of an act in defense of the environment are always 'I bet you do bad things too', or 'it's nothing in the grand scheme of pollution and industry'. So be it, but I feel better that I just don't sit and read without saying I don't think it's normal to cover your own piece of earth in plastic.

 

Isn’t asking questions of someone then calling them a hypocrite before they’ve had a chance to reply judgemental and also hypocritical JamDrop?

 

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-stupid-obsession-lawns/

 

It should be banned. It's a disaster, environmentally and aesthetically.

 

While I’m on the subject, I’ve a beautiful old oak tree that’s stood at the bottom of the garden long before my time…so am I better off taking a chainsaw to it or will chucking a load of petrol on it and setting fire to it do the job?

 

Yes, that's the other end of the same spectrum of wanting an aesthetically 'perfect' square of green by your house

 

Perhaps, if the answer wasn’t so obvious.

Had they not called Bossman (and everyone else with artificial grass) selfish, not included the patronising ‘people want their easy patch of sanitised earth’ to someone who said they already have two lawns, and not ended by proclaiming their anger then I may have responded differently. Plenty of people have replied with their opinion that they aren’t a fan of artificial grass but no-one else did it in such a holier than thou way and across so many posts in the thread, trying to ram their opinion down everyone’s throats.

 

Ooohh!!! Good job you don't live in Sheffield!

 

Personally, I think it is one of the worst inventions ever, especially for nature (birds etc) regardless of it being plastic. If i'm totally honest it also looks a bit chavvy in my opinion and whenever I see a house with it on rightmove i rule it out. Pretty certain I'm not the only one.

For small bits that dont warrant mowing can kind of see the appeal, but not an entire lawn.

 

Yes you're right: let's not get passionate about anything we care about, that affects what we each believe in for the world. I don't like your attitude either and find it patronising. It's passive attitudes like yours that help ensure nothing meaningful will change for the world. I see plastic turf as one part of an alarming trend on how we envision our environment, and despite it not being pleasant posting what you see as the consequences, and ending up being accused of ' ramming it down others' throats' , I took the time to. It's something I see all the time and I had hassle with a neighbour the other day who pulled out these beautiful flowering plants from my drive that I'd left for the insects as 'weeds' . As for holy, ha! I never said I was perfect, or that we aren't all sadly implicated in some ways that are harmful to the environment just by being consumers.

 

Which makes it alright for you to do what you say you dislike others to do and judge?

 

Ha- it's ok because they knew the answer to their own question already because it was 'obvious'.

 

How big is your home? Would you say it has a larger footprint than it NEEDS to have?
I live in a modest home but I have to admit it's bigger than it NEEDS to be and is taking up valuable space that could have been grass if I wasn't selfish

 

See DannyWilsonLoveChilds’ reply on the first page of this thread as an example of how to put your point across about artificial grass without being patronising about it. You’ll notice I didn’t reply to anyone else who had a similar opinion. This thread was about recommendations of where to get artificial grass from, fine have an attempt at changing his mind but you’ve gone through the thread challenging people who already have it like they’re going to rip it out and throw it away (then the plastic really would be wasted).