I've just looked on the Rolawn website. The homepage extols the virtues of their turf but doesn't mention anything about the mesh. I've looked on several other pages of the site and not seen any mention of it there either. If it's mentioned at all, it's very well hidden.
Definitely something Gardeners' World, the magazine, or both could do with investigating.
My take on that would be that it enables Rolawn to cut, lift and roll turf at an earlier stage before the roots have knitted together, thus enabling them to get more ‘harvests’ from an area of land than otherwise and thus maximise their profits. The rest of the spiel is simply hogwash 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've just looked on the Rolawn website. The homepage extols the virtues of their turf but doesn't mention anything about the mesh. I've looked on several other pages of the site and not seen any mention of it there either. If it's mentioned at all, it's very well hidden.
Definitely something Gardeners' World, the magazine, or both could do with investigating.
Exactly. It *is* there, as Anni found, but they don't make it evident when you're buying AT ALL.
And frankly, the nonsense about scissors at the end is ridiculous.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I must admit it took me a fair while to find it, it was well hidden, and l like Dove's expression of "Hogwash", that's exactly what it is. I asked OH, him being a lawn geek, and he was aware that they'd started doing it over the last few years. I always regarded Rowlawn as being a "top of the range" name, but this has changed my opinion. In view of the (comparatively recent) news about plastic and it's effect on the environment, it seems to me to be counter productive to extol the virtues of natural grass on the one hand, and have that stuff incorporated in it on the other (no matter how biodegradable it's supposed to be).
If you put the turf upside down in the compost heap and water it well, most of the turf will compost off. If the plastic is still a mesh you can then lift it out, but it should decompose down.
If you put the turf upside down in the compost heap and water it well, most of the turf will compost off. If the plastic is still a mesh you can then lift it out, but it should decompose down.
I can't afford to take it all up and replace it!
Here's a bit I removed a couple of weeks ago. It's been in the lawn for over 3 years. No sign of any 'breaking down', and I'm pulling at it quite hard.
Exactly, I also can’t afford to have it lifted and returfed with a proper lawn without plastic ..... it should be made abundantly clear by the supplier. I would never have put down by choice a lawn that has a plastic mesh in it. it is disgraceful 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And frankly, the nonsense about scissors at the end is ridiculous.
I asked OH, him being a lawn geek, and he was aware that they'd started doing it over the last few years. I always regarded Rowlawn as being a "top of the range" name, but this has changed my opinion. In view of the (comparatively recent) news about plastic and it's effect on the environment, it seems to me to be counter productive to extol the virtues of natural grass on the one hand, and have that stuff incorporated in it on the other (no matter how biodegradable it's supposed to be).
Here's a bit I removed a couple of weeks ago. It's been in the lawn for over 3 years. No sign of any 'breaking down', and I'm pulling at it quite hard.
You can imagine the results of trying to remove thatch from a lawn with that in it, when you didn't even know it was there....
it is disgraceful 😡😡😡😡😡😡