Ever since you were young you will likely have remembered seeing your mother or father working tirelessly on your front lawn and they would tell you it wouldn’t just be for it to look as good or as green as possible. As the years have passed and you have grown older you have began to see things from your parents’ side and you will realize that having a front lawn with brilliant looking green grass isn’t just good on account of the fact that it looks good. But that there are also a whole host of practical benefits to having this well-kept space of grass at the front of your house.

It was long seen as a status symbol to have the nicest and greenest grass on your lawn, and this is something that even in this day and age, still remains to be true. We do still like to have that bright and lively looking green as possible grass on our lawns. But it may not be the case anymore that in order to have the best looking area of grass in front of your house that you need to use natural grass that was grown in the old fashioned way. In fact, you can achieve amazing looking finish to your lawn that you and your parents always wanted to without needing to plant a single seed.

So rather than spending the time to put together and cultivate the greenest grassy lawn you can, you are able to go down what is becoming an increasingly popular route and decide to have your front lawn set with artificial grass instead. You might be thinking what benefit there is to getting this done, or that it’s not any better than getting good old fashioned grass for your front yard. But say you were to get in touch with the likes of Baez Sports artificial grass and have the naturally grown grass replaced with an artificial counterpart you would very quickly find out that not only is there a distinct difference between the two, but also that there are a host of benefits that might convince you to switch from what you’ve known and always looked at for your front yard.

A simple point to consider before going any further into weighing up the difference between the two is the time that you would need to spend in maintaining a natural grass lawn compared to the artificial one. As you will likely have had the arduous and monotonous duty of mowing the lawn for your parents, it is no secret that there is plenty you can find yourself having to do in order to keep your lawn looking clean and tidy. It goes without saying that you don’t need to mow or do any kind of trimming on an artificial one simply as it doesn’t grow. This is enough of a reason to consider getting a man-made grass, just being able to save yourself spending your Sundays regardless of the weather mowing your lawn.

By Chakraborty

Dr Chakrabarty is the Chief Innovation Officer of IntuiComp TeraScience. Earlier she was Assistant Professor of Delhi University, a QS ranked university in India. Before that she has held research positions in IIT Mumbai, IIT Chennai and IISc Bangalore. She holds 2 patents and over 20 research publications in her name which are highly cited. Her area of research is in smart technologies, integrated devices and communications. She also has a penchant for blogging and is an editor of Business Fundas.