Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

Prime example of my workload consists of paving / installing artificial grass and sleeper work same shit different day 😂😂

 

Jack

[Big J]

As others have said, if you don't do it, someone else will. 

 

If it's more of a damning indictment on modern house construction that the gardens provided are so small and badly drained, the only way to make them useable is to make them completely artificial. I personally couldn't imagine anything worse, but then you couldn't pay me to live in a new housing development. 

[doobin]

7 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Prime example of my workload consists of paving / installing artificial grass and sleeper work same shit different day 😂😂

 

Jack

Even a sterile garden like that will have plenty more work down the line...those softwood sleepers will be rotted out in five years!

[sime42]

As others have said, if you don't do it, someone else will. 
 
If it's more of a damning indictment on modern house construction that the gardens provided are so small and badly drained, the only way to make them useable is to make them completely artificial. I personally couldn't imagine anything worse, but then you couldn't pay me to live in a new housing development. 

Not to mention the hardcore and other builders waste that's normally buried two inches below the surface of any new build garden that I've ever worked in.

[Big J]

3 minutes ago, sime42 said:

1 hour ago, Big J said:

As others have said, if you don't do it, someone else will. 
 
If it's more of a damning indictment on modern house construction that the gardens provided are so small and badly drained, the only way to make them useable is to make them completely artificial. I personally couldn't imagine anything worse, but then you couldn't pay me to live in a new housing development. 

Not to mention the hardcore and other builders waste that's normally buried two inches below the surface of any new build garden that I've ever worked in.

 

Exactly that. 

I put up an arch for my brother a few years back in his back garden. A newly built Persimmon box. We were unable to get metal fence post spikes into the ground (to the point where they bent) due to rubble. Ended up having to use threaded rod to secure the arch.

The most common thing he finds is nail gun strips. It's staggering that they get away with dumping so much shite under the ground.

[Stere]

 

A agree that it should be banned  apart for use on all weather sports pitches etc.

 

Local garden centre now seems it is about  50% plastic garden crap/nik naks solar laterns etc, 20% weedkillers/ chemicals,and about 30% negelected plants.

 

Most of  the the garden tools are poor quality  disposable   stuff that won't last 5 mins (apart from  the odd exception like the promotional felco scecateurs stand etc)

 

I think alot people just don't like nature as its  has a tendency to  be "untidy". One tiny brown spot on an otherwise prefectly healthly plant and they  are having  a panic attack, and wanting to buy  chemicals /products marketed at them to  to fix it. hence the huge array of questionable garden products.

 

Can see why plastic grass and matching plastic plants offers them a perfect solution.

 

Horrible reflection on  societal values.

Edited May 27, 2022 by Stere

[sime42]

Yeah, most garden centres are a joke now. If you want to buy tack and tat you might as well save money and get it much cheaper at a Pound Stretcher type shop. If you actually want to buy real plants you need to go to a nursery.

[Rich Rule]

13 hours ago, peds said:

Do they know what the effects of microplastic pollution are specifically on male fertility and sperm motility, and are they still happy to have the young lad playing on it, driving his trucks up and down it, tearing up countless thousands of airborn microplastic particles and breathing them all in, lodging deep within his lungs?

 

Did they know about that? 

Didn’t seem to harm QPR in the 80’s.

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

9 hours ago, doobin said:

Even a sterile garden like that will have plenty more work down the line...those softwood sleepers will be rotted out in five years!

There 250 x 125 made out of shite timber and are as bent as a 10 bob bit and the best bit is there £45 each the fixings are £25 for a box of 50 everything about them is expensive and horrible but I’m in it to provide a profitable service so that’s how it goes in for a penny in for a pound 😂😂

 

Jack

[Steven P]

Plastic grass, all I'll say is take your shoes and socks off and walk on it.. then walk on proper grass, massive difference and much nicer with real grass.

 

There might be a place for it if the outdoor space is the size of a stamp but if it is a family house - like many of the photos - then I have to be convinced it is an improvement