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New Allotment Pomd - Sloping "Beach" - Plastic Grass

NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
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Someone has suggested I can use a section of plastic grass on the sloping beach to allow The Critters to get out.

I have bought a small bag of gravel / small pebbles but i thought I would ask the experts first

? Anyone got any thoughts friends.

I used to play on 3G piches for hockey and have the knees to prove it !.
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No, is my immediate reaction. 

    Plastic grass doesn't bend like the real stuff so will be uncomfortable for critters to crawl thru or over and it's stiffness also means it attracts and keeps muck and grow weeds.  Plastic lawns have to be vacuum cleaned or swept and hosed regularly.   Recycling nightmare too.

    Stick with natural stuff like real grass going over the edges of your pond liner and then pebbles and shingle for a beach.  

    Make sure you have some vertical marginal plants to allow matured grubs to climb up and become dragonflies and some broader or more bushy leaved plants for amphibious babies and other pondlife to hide in.
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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Very grateful Obelixx.

    Bon chance mon ami
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Vote for real grass also, much more natural look and much more useful for animals getting in and out.
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