The gas company replaced some gas lines in the area and they reseeded with this straw and mesh that is like fine fishing line.
The grass is now about a foot high.
My landscaper won’t cut the grass because he said it will damage his equipment.
Pulling on the mesh pulls the grass out of the ground.
Is this mesh supposed to disintegrate?
Is our landscaper supposed to cut this?
by JohnTrap
34 Comments
Let it disintegrate
Ask the gas company to come out and address the issue?
Just take scissors and cut the stuff that’s sticking up. Leave the rest. He’s just mad it’s getting wrapped around the blade.
It never disintegrates. I have scarified 2 defunct lawns that were established with sod years before. Stopped every minute or 2 to clean the scarifier head on the first pass, less frequently on later passes.
Fuck that stuff. It will at some point be a pain in your genitals. I cut it off my spindles at least once a year and I am starting to get concerned about the ghost of all the snakes that get trapped in it. My house is almost 20yrs old and it still is a problem.
curse whoever put it there as i work to undo whatever nonsense they did
I tripped over mine more than once.
The stuff will not disintegrate. Have a similar situation on a slope (not on my property) that has caused numerous wildlife death, human injuries, and worsen erosion issue over the last two years. Right now, the developer in charge of the area are being fined (it leads to a wetland habitat). They’re trying to shift the blame on another company as the fines keep racking up. Still haven’t removed the piece of shit mesh because that would imply accountability. It’s on year three now.
I wish you luck op. Start the process now.
Horrible stuff for you as well as the animals, throw it in the damn trash and never use it again
Suffer. Suffer some more.
Shit. I call it absolute shit. We found some while cleaning up our property…it’s survived like 4 different fires now. Slash piles so hot they melt glass beer bottles, but not this shit. I don’t know how, but it has.
It’s going to the dump this weekend, because I’m tired of looking at it.
The grass our builders set down with that mesh took terribly. We wound up ripping it up, hands and knees. Rusty staples for days. A third of an acre. It was a pain in the ass. But totally worth it.
That stuff should be outlawed. What happens if the ground is not completely flat is that you wind up getting a layer of grass growing over a gap in which water and rot accumulate, and then you just get a mess.
Weed whack the grass to as short as you can without killing it. Pull that shit up with your hands. It’ll make a mess of the grass and as you say, pull a lot of it out. When the hottest part of summer is over, rake to expose soil between the tufts you’ll have left, overseed, and keep it damp for a few weeks.
im a landscaper and I fucking hate this shit, we have 3 major sod manufacturers where i am and one uses this in their rolls, I’ve since boycotted them.
It’s deer netting.
I zip tie it on a fence to grow honey suckle.
Pull it. It’s not ment to remain in place. As soon as the grass is ready to cut is when you should remove the state blanket and reseed after the first mow
I used a mesh screen just like this that had straw in it to cover newly seeded grass. As soon as the grass started growing I removed the wire pins holding it down and I thought the stuff worked great. I didn’t leave it in the lawn for an extended period of time either.
Pull it up. Any grass that gets yanked up with it is honored for the sacrifice.
I used some straw with that in it a while back. Never agajn
We can’t have plastic straws but this exists!
It kills wildlife! Birds, snakes, opossums, skunks, etc, etc, etc. The sooner is gone, the better
it doe6snt disintegrate, no. I’ve only ever had it in a ditch and it never leaves.
I’d pull it up and the foot long grass with it, especially if it was an impediment to getting my yard serviced
I’ve seen people suspended it a few inches above their grass to keep the crows away
F those nets
I had gas lines replaced as well. I refused to allow the gas company to do any work on the lawn. Cost me about $60 in soil and seed.
Avoid using it
Next time you can get a coconut roll lol
My lawn is covered with this too. Front and back like a blanket just under the grass.
Usually untangle it from under my mowers.
Usually untangle it from under my mower decks.
I tell everyone, buy the bales of straw, this netting is not bio degradable…its a lie…maybe in 50 years, the other option is coconut cuir, its much wider and actually degrades, minimal impact to snakes an other animals…because the grid is very wide.
This stuff is absolute garbage…ive rescued so many snakes out of those things, i hate it
Just spent 4.5 hrs of my life on my hands & knees in blistering heat, tearing this shit out at the golf course i work at. Same thing, gas company. They layed a metric shit ton of it down & as an added bonus, they used 2, 5 gal buckets worth of landscaping staples to hold it all down. Literally every 4 inches or so. I didn’t hate this shit before, I can say with conviction, it can eat shit.
Spent a whole day pulling it out of the mower.
My lawn mower blades hate it with a passion.
How the hell did this product ever even be approved as a landscaping item anyway. The house i rented once had this stuff in the back yard and a lot of it was sticking out from the long dead old sod. And my dog ripped on of her claws off from it. Of course the landlord didnt pay for the vet bill. I pulled that shit up even over the still alive grass.
Our builder said “a shovel will cut right through that” and I said “yeah and that shit will cut right through my intestines”. It’s all over our property and has probably killed a bunch of birds and other wildlife around here. It should be banned.