The amazing adaptability of these plants has somehow been lost on the turf grass industry.
If you need turf grass for children or dogs to romp on or to carpet your outdoor living areas, ask your local suppliers for the best water-saving grass for your area.
For all the effort many homeowners put into their turf, dead grass may be the last straw.
So go the turf battles among rival grass-roots organizations--communities mobilizing against commercial interests, which, in turn, try to co-opt the citizenry.
Stanton hit a tapper in front of the plate and clutched his leg just before crossing first base, fell face-first to the turf and then pounded the grass with his fist in anger.
From that point on, every grass verge was potential turf, every park bench a possible jump.
Many golf courses in Malaysia use cowgrass, a thick-blade grass, for their turf.
The National Federation of State High School Associations, which oversees the state entities that oversee most of prep sports in America, is now making available to advertisers the green, green grass (or synthetic turf) of high school football fields.
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"It now looks like someone's just come in with a turf cutter and peeled back all the grass, " Mr Pooley said.
Was it, as some tacticians argue, a case of India's game being too rooted in natural grass to accommodate an international switch to artificial turf?
Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.
Mark Nicholls, the founder and chief executive of Sportexe, the number two maker of artificial turf in the NFL, has patented the process of "tufting" fiber optics with blades of plastic grass.
This technology will be available soon, making its grand entrance as a National Football League field in the U.S. Mark Nicholls, the founder and chief executive of Sportexe, the number two maker of artificial turf in the NFL, has patented the process of "tufting" fiber optics with blades of plastic grass.
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