In my attached pictures, you will see my issue in my backyard.
Albeit most of the grass is sparse, the problem area I have is where I cannot grow grass, It is not exposed to sunlight, gets very dry when the weather is dry, and just is an overall pain to grow anything there.
Now, it really doesn't bother me except for the fact that I have dogs, and when it is wet, it turns to mud and the dogs don't seems to care about romping around in it, therefore tracking it back into the house.
Sure I can wipe the feet of the dogs every time they come in, but let's face it, that's a pain in the butt.
I've had rock there before but that just looked like an eyesore, so one year I decided to push the rock back towards the house, put in railroad ties and tried to grow some grass there and failed.
I am seriously considering putting artificial grass there and am wondering what is the best kind to get.
Sure I've researched about this:
...and of course found many different brands on the web.
Am I going to regret doing this? After a couple years am I going to have to worry about something I am unaware of with fake grass? Is it going to bunch up over time? Will it look like crap when laid out? Will it float out of place when it gets flooded? (backyard floods when it rains really bad but drains relatively quickly).
Will it get full of outdoor crap such as small acorns, pine needles, broken down leaves etc that I need to what, mow up? blow out? vacuum out?
I don't even know what questions to ask about it.... I've never dealt with fake grass.
I'll try it in this area first to see how it goes and perhaps do the rest of my small backyard to match.
TL/DR---fake grass....too much hassle in the long run?
Albeit most of the grass is sparse, the problem area I have is where I cannot grow grass, It is not exposed to sunlight, gets very dry when the weather is dry, and just is an overall pain to grow anything there.
Now, it really doesn't bother me except for the fact that I have dogs, and when it is wet, it turns to mud and the dogs don't seems to care about romping around in it, therefore tracking it back into the house.
Sure I can wipe the feet of the dogs every time they come in, but let's face it, that's a pain in the butt.
I've had rock there before but that just looked like an eyesore, so one year I decided to push the rock back towards the house, put in railroad ties and tried to grow some grass there and failed.
I am seriously considering putting artificial grass there and am wondering what is the best kind to get.
Sure I've researched about this:
Source
...and of course found many different brands on the web.
Am I going to regret doing this? After a couple years am I going to have to worry about something I am unaware of with fake grass? Is it going to bunch up over time? Will it look like crap when laid out? Will it float out of place when it gets flooded? (backyard floods when it rains really bad but drains relatively quickly).
Will it get full of outdoor crap such as small acorns, pine needles, broken down leaves etc that I need to what, mow up? blow out? vacuum out?
I don't even know what questions to ask about it.... I've never dealt with fake grass.
I'll try it in this area first to see how it goes and perhaps do the rest of my small backyard to match.
TL/DR---fake grass....too much hassle in the long run?
