Poly Grass artificial turf Project

This year we finally decided to ditch the black tan bark and install artificial turf in the large open fruit tree area. B/c of ground prep time, artificial grass is right up there with concrete in terms of cost, actually more expensive. First scrape everything off the ground, down to the clay level, then level the ground. A rough gravel goes on next about 2" and on top of that, 1" of fine, sand-like gravel. The grass gets stapled down once everything is smooth and leveled off. Here are some progress photos. We are keeping all the fruit trees, hopefully, not too hard to wash off once all the fruit starts falling off and possibly rotting on it. We will have to be more diligent about picking up dropped fruit.

Here is 4' and 3' rings around each tree.

 

  

 

Here is where they are at by lunch on the 2nd day. All the fruit trees have been ringed off, and they have started dumping sand on the area.

 

 

They said they might actually have some turf laid down by the end of the day. We'll see...