Fake Grass for the Garden

Poor Soil

• Not all home gardens are created equal when it comes to soil quality. If your soil is less than ideal for growing healthy plants, you will have to invest time and money adding organic material, drainage material and topsoil to improve your soil. While you won't be able to avoid this cost if you want real flowers in your garden, you can save in areas where you would like to have grass. All you have to do is cut the fake grass to fit certain areas and roll it out into place in your garden.

Garden Paths

• Gardeners leave a space between each row so they can walk among the plants to care for and harvest vegetables. If you leave the pathway with bare soil, weeds will grow up in the rows, stealing water and nutrients from your vegetables. The rows must be weeded or tilled regularly, stealing valuable time that could be spent attending to your plants. An easy solution to this problem is to roll a blanket of fake grass between the rows in your garden. You'll never have to worry about weeds and you'll have a soft walking surface. The green grass will also provide a more organic look to your garden.

Play Areas

• Fake grass can provide a soft landing surface for a children's playground in your home garden. Many people use mulch as playground padding, but this can soil clothing if children should fall, especially if the mulch is damp. With fake grass, you won't have to worry about dirty clothing or your kids tracking in bits of shredded wood every time they come in from playing. Use fake grass under swing sets, sliding boards and merry-go-rounds or cover the entire garden to give your kids a soft surface for playing sports.

Patio

• As an alternative to hard patio surfaces like stone or wood, you can lay fake grass for a patio surface that is both unique and functional. Real grass isn't used for patios because it can get muddy, and patio furniture blocks the sun needed to make grass grow. If you use fake grass, you don't have to worry about the furniture damaging the turf and you'll have full, lush grass even in total shade. If you don't want the entire surface to be fake grass, you can lay a tile patio floor but substitute fake grass for a few of the tiles.