--On Thursday, March 2, 2006 12:35 AM +0000 PaPaPeng
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:00:57 -0800, LurfysMa
wrote:

Has anyone had a good experience putting in artificial grass in a home
setting?


My yard is next to a schoolyard cum public park. The public park
grass has overwhelmed my Kentucky grass sodded lawn more than a decade
ago. I love it for its hardiness and low maintenance. I don't water
my lawn and had only applied fertilizer maybe four times over 25
years. In a dry spell it may look scrawny and brown. But it is never
bare dirt and the moment it rains the grass rebounds overnight and I
have to mow within a week. The recommendation then is to find out the
grass the local park uses and seed you lawn with that.

You can also check with local landscapers or nurseries to see what they may
recommend. There are certainly blends of grass recommended for shady
locations. If you can't find one that you like, there are a lot of
non-grass alternatives that you may find aesthetically pleasing. Are you
set on having a lawn, or are you open to other sorts of ground cover?

I confess a prejudice against synthetic grass without a lot of research or
knowledge of the current products. If/when I go back to Vegas I'll check
out the installation at Wynn. If a product can look good and weather well
in that environment, I'd have to reconsider my opinion.

mark