Don’t just put more water on it!

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Things are starting to warm up at this time of year and I know my poor weed lawn has only got a matter of a couple of weeks before it frazzles and turns brown and that will be that, my green weed lawn will turn to dust and won't return until September or so when we have the first rains and temperatures start to drop.

I don't have artificial grass at the moment for one reason, I can't afford it yet as I have a big space to fill. But the main point is if you have a real lawn, the only thing stopping it going brown and frazzling in the summer sun is water, and lots of it. But the key to a good natural lawn isn't just about throwing huge quantities of water on it. Your natural lawn has to be on top of well prepped and good quality ground, and this is the number one problem I see with real lawns.
Most natural lawns have been shoved in by someone who doesn't care and it is put in as quickly and as cheaply as possible meaning the ground itself that the lawn sits on is rubbish, and sometimes I quite literally mean rubbish, builders rubble and all sorts, the worst I have ever seen is approx. 5cm of soil on top of hard packed white soil with no nutrient goodness or anything. How anyone expects a lawn to work or be good under those circumstances is ridiculous. So, if you have a bad lawn, be aware that more often than not, throwing extra water on it is often not the go to fix, as the ground itself underneath is shot. It will have no natural organic vegetation or compost in it and it will just have nothing left to give. You can go throwing some feeds onto it, that may perk it up, but you also have to think about the impact that chemical feeds, even if based from natural products, have on the environment and marine life when it washes through and leeches into the water system and eventually out to sea.
Now a lot of people often like to put artificial grass down, saying it leeches toxins into the ground. The truth is it's hard to do that if the grass is 100% non toxic, like ours (I cannot say that for all artificial grasses). The truth is that your badly made and maintained natural lawn is probably doing more damage to the environment than artificial grass. So stop trying to brush water up hill and understand that sometimes to get the best results, and to make a space usable, green and friendly you have to just go with our artificial grass. More details can be found on our website. Let's turn your summer green with Artificial Grass Spain.

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