Error Of The Week (14)

Where do you stand on artificial grass? From an environmental perspective due to its high plastic content, it should be stamped on, but its proponents argue that it is labour-saving. Once down, you do not have to cut it.    

Tell that to South Somerset Council. A motorist, Nigel Castle, was so perplexed when he saw a council employee cheerfully deploying a strimmer on a roundabout in Yeovil laid with artificial grass that he got his daughter to take a photograph.

The problem, it seems, was that some pesky weeds had grown through the plastic and the employee was trying to cut them down. As well as potentially damaging the skin, waving a strimmer at them would have no lasting effect. They would need to be weeded by hand and taken out by the roots.

While weeds seem to be the new trendy plants and are to be encouraged, the Council want rid of them and have recognized that their employee was not going about the task in the right way. They admitted that more training was required.

For Castle, though, only ripping up the turf and planting some real grass will do. He has a point as the turf in the picture looks shocking.

Happy Easter!