Best turf for stripy look in a lawn

As with so many things, context is key. A huge expanse of meticulously maintained lawn, mowed every day, sometimes multiple times per day, and constantly irrigated and treat with chemicals is an entirely different thing to a lawn surrounded by plants and shrubs and trees, that is rarely watered, and is allowed to grow and has clover and other wild plants in it.

There was a piece in the news yesterday about artificial lawns becoming increasingly popular. Personally I absolutely hate them, but apparently some people love them. There was a guy on there arguing that artificial lawns are more eco friendly than real ones because they don't need watering. His company sold artificial turf.

 

Yes I saw an article on plastic lawns, not very green it seems, not even the colour.

 

I think when you bear in mind all the chemicals and water that is required to maintain a perfect lawn artificial lawns probably are more environmentally friendly.
But if you just grow a bit of grass and mow it regularly then that is more friendly than the artificial stuff.

 

Pretty sure Blackbirds would prefer the real thing, not many worms in a plastic lawn.

 

That's easily resolved- and it's educational!

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My step-daughter has just had artificial turf laid and when I went to see it there was a bit of fallen leaves on it and it looked quite realistic.

 

At risk of sounding like a hypocrite, I actually recommended an artificial lawn for my mother. But in my defence, she doesn't have a garden at all, just a back yard. She had decking in it for a while but it went rotten so I tore it all out (at her request) so now it's just cracked old concrete. She wants it nice but can't decide what she wants so I recommended we just put artificial turf down, with an underlay of course, and then get some nice plants in containers. It hasn't happened yet, party because she can't decide, and partly because she doesn't like bugging me to do work, even though I would enjoy doing it. I mean, who here wouldn't enjoy turning a boring old terraced house yard into a nice outdoor space.

 

All football league grounds use perennial ryegrass. kentucky blue takes too long to establish

 

So do many dairy farms, the goal for lawns is resilience and asthetic, not mowing three times a week.

 

Im not getting into an argument over it but if you use the same perennial ryegrass they use you will kill horses and cattle due to the high endophyte levels. His original question was
Best turf for stripy look in a lawn....no mention of mowing. I dont know many stripy dairy farms?

 

We use rye grass mixtures for all but the greens and they are cut 3 to 4 times a week. Rye grass is a tougher grass, more resilient but for lines a lot depends on the way it’s cut, the height and so on. Our greens look great after a cut but the approaches, surrounds, fairway and rough are more pronounced due to the height so at a distance you see the line formations.
Greens may be cut twice in a day if required for competition so that the ball speed is even throughout the day.

Saying that a lawn is a smaller area where you can target the plant to increase its appearance with fertilisers. Seedweed based one’s help to darken the plant leaf due to the iron content if applied correctly as does iron but you don’t want to be applying it constantly. A nice lush coverage of green grass will produce lines, be it rye grass or bent depending on your preferences to a lawn.

on about dairy farms, round here I see a lot of striped areas due to the rough cutter attachment used. Really depends on the equipment used and how the farmer cuts.

with lawns again cutting is all down to what one wants. There are those who cut 3 times a week with their cylinders, those who cut once a week, those who cut once a fortnight and those that cut when they feel it needs it. Obviously for a lovely lawn it’s best cut often and more so with finer grass but lawns are not on everyone’s list of number one thing to do.
You can spend an awful lot of time on a lawn to get it to a high standard and there’s cost too.