Show #48/7009. A Stunning Community Garden

Consider Synthetic Turf

Eric would also like to talk a little bit about the synthetic turf in this garden. We're seeing a lot of people use synthetic turf in design. He thinks it's great in so many ways. Turf can be very water, very fertility intensive and there's a lot of maintenance that goes into keeping it looking nice. Nathan agrees, there is. In the Hayes Fairchild garden, it has a nice little circle area, they've redone the grass there twice and it still doesn't look great. So in here they decided to use artificial turf. They put down a layer of crush and run gravel, packed it down, put the artificial turf on top of that, and then used a silica sand infill to help the grass stand up. It has a couple of different colors, even has thatch in there. So it's great and doesn't wear out. Eric agrees synthetic turf has come a long way. People who are thinking about old school astroturf, that you might have had in the mudroom in your home, it's so different from that. Like Nathan said, they even simulate the thatch in it. You can get different heights and even things that look like different types of grass. So if you haven't thought about synthetic turf in a while and you want a nice little turf area, go take another look at it. Nathan agrees, it's a great option. They have so many different selections out there right now, some of them are more expensive than others.