Thanks to the previous home owners need for instant grass gratification, I will now be pulling this green plastic netting forever on my property. Every time I want to go plant or modify a part of the property, I run into this. I wish they would ban this stuff as there is no good reason to cover the entire ground with plastic netting ever. Don’t even get me started on landscaping fabric, which I have also spent way too many hours ripping out the multiple layers of.
by IM_DRAGON_MY_BALLz
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We had our yard landscaped. Our HOA does not allow seed and straw so we had sod laid. Unbeknownst to us, sod growers often use a plastic netting as a base for sod. I think it allows them to cut sod earlier because the webbing holds the sod together. We are now paying the price. Whenever a bare spot appears , the webbing rears it’s ugly head.
The previous tenant of my unit smashed a full glass door and was generally a slob and I cannot go a day without digging up trash out of the dirt
That sucks. I just had a few patches done a year ago. It had metal U hooks holding it down. Probably 100 sq ft total over 5 patches. Ended up on my hands and knees, raking my finger through each area to catch the hooks and tear out ever piece of plastic.
I have the same issue with this damn plastic liner. I’m sure it’s possibly a bit easier to get rid of, but oh my god does it annoy me. I don’t even get the fking purpose to be honest with you. The weeds grow right through it, and it traps moisture giving them the perfect environment to grow. My biggest regret is cutting holes into it and planting plants instead of starting by ripping it all up. It sucks.
What was the purpose for them to put it there in the first place? I don´t get that.
I have never seen it used here (Denmark) directly on top of grass. But people use it to keep birds away from berries.
This is the SAME turf netting I had to cut a stuck sparrow out of at my apartment complex last week. This stuff sucks and so does all the unnecessary turf
Moved into a place recently because of all the outside space. There’s a lot of lawn I want to convert to garden, but then I come to find that this netting covers the entire area. I guess even places that don’t have sod had it at one point because this stuff is there too. It’s a huge bummer, and I wish there was an easier way to get rid of it (besides going the landscaper route.) So I feel your pain, it sucks.
This hurts me. I hated this stuff at our last house.
I had that at my previous house. It’s baffling they would use plastic for sod rolls. Well, no, it’s obvious but very annoying.
And the oceans 😭
When I seed dead spots, I use grass in my compost that dried up. Once I apply seed I water it down
I’m is USA. I’ve never seen that stuff before but my house was new and I planted the grass with seed. The birds took half the seed but it still grew in eventually.
I didn’t know this was a thing but I hate it. Wtf is wrong with humans.
Ugh. The previous owners of my house covered the yard in landscape fabric. Total pain to deel with. Im still digging some out three years later.
That stuff is a nightmare. It will surface for years. Injures and kills birds, breaks a pets leg. Truly nasty.
Not to bad, whenever I dig past 4 inches I hit a rock layer, Theo I have to finish the hole with a crowbar
For me it’s old roofing shingles. Some genius used them as a weed barrier 🫠 I don’t plant anything edible directly in the ground because I don’t think it’s good to eat whatever leaches out of a shingle over a 50 year period.
When our home was built the ground was scraped level (no top soil), the construction crews threw everything on the ground (broken bricks, concrete pieces, wires, plastic bottles, fast food cartons, broken glass bottles) and then laid sod on all the trash. Unfortunately this is probably common.
I feel your pain.
Yep. Feel ya bro, mine is weed cloth.
Yeah mine too, it sucks. Too bad for them I killed all the grass and replaced it with clover and native flowers.
I gave up on starting a garden 2 years ago because I pulled so many 10ft strips of this out and it still kept coming. I started again this year to find out I was almost done last time, at least I hope.
I call it my first harvest every spring
I’m so upset because I was trying to transplant some parsley from a grassy area but the root got caught up in that netting I still have littered under the ground everywhere so in pulling it out I messed way too much with the root and I think it’s donezo.
I hate that stuff. It’s shredded enough to be in everything and strong enough still to not be able to rip it out of the ground without ripping up all kinds of stuff that’s grown into it
I think you mean… grassification
Gross. Where do you live? I don’t think I have ever seen that here, north of Boston.
I have TWO LAYERS of this crap. I guess someone laid sod and it didn’t do well and later someone laid sod right over the old stuff. *shrug*
Feels like this plastic in your yard should be illegal
So many members of that club.
The best we can do (besides pulling it out) is not continue using that crap.
The previous owner of our yard used landscaping tarp, the nasty super shiny plastic stuff, everywhere and under everything. We’ve been pulling it up for 10 years now with no end in sight.
They also threw Natty Light cans, chicken wire, barbed wire, and a bong in our woods, so they were really class acts.
I hate them more every day.
Landscaping company straight up lied to me about it. They said it would break down in place in a couple of years. If I had a time machine this is probably what I would use it for.
Try being me constantly digging up tents, air mattress, layers of grocery bags, shirts, pants, jackets, tarps. Pretty much any plastic material previous homeowners could put down to prevent weeds around entire plot. Its infuriating. Nothing grows here but weeds. No grass nothing beautiful. I’ve been working on digging it all up over the past year.
That looks like what I used to see on the bottom of sod. I, too, am pulling similar strips out of dirt in my yard. No lawn anywhere.
I bought my house almost 30 years ago and the entire backyard lawn has that throughout it. I’ve turned about 1/3 of the lawn into a raised bed garden and am still digging this out. It’s awful, hasn’t broken down at all since the house was built in 1987.
For me, its plastic mulch bags used as landscape fabric…
The silver lining is the small quarry of bluestone slabs I have found grown over all over my yard.
Good luck removing and at least your plants can get water. I had to pull 3 layers of weed fabric out of my mom’s front garden beds – 2 beds @ 10’x20’. Deepest layer was ~10”. All plants beasting now that they get water.
I found some 8″ under the grass the day before yesterday. I don’t know wtf, but yeesh.
Instant grassification was right there