The nursery sod grass is not always greener

I am retired and take several exercise walks per week.

While out walking, I have often noticed that sidewalk borders, once edged with expensive nursery sods, are now a tangled mess of many different varieties of broadleaf weeds.

The weeds are mainly dandelions and plantain, but also include many others.

In between this assortment of weeds are patches of barren, dried up topsoil. Not a blade of grass to be found.

A couple of years ago, a very nice concrete sidewalk was installed on Glendale Drive just across from Sackville High School.

It was finished off with nursery sod.

This was truly a fine looking project when it was completed, something of which the community could show pride.

Today, those beautiful expensive nursery sods have been completely devastated by a plethora of weeds.

Isn’t there something else that could be planted after these projects are completed?

Expensive nursery sods only look nice for a couple of years before the grass gets invaded and choked out by weeds.

I wonder why land design engineers keep specifying that nursery sod be used to finish these types of projects.

Without doubt, they will all end up as an unsightly mess of choked-out grass that’s been overwhelmed by lots of weeds

I have thought that planting white clover may be a better alternative.

White clover is green and it seems to hold its own, better than nursery sods, against invading weeds.

Finishing these types of public projects with nursery sod is a losing battle, in the process wasting lots of taxpayers’ dollars.

Without a doubt, the newly installed grass will eventually be choked out by weeds and disappear.

In the least, some research and experimentation should be done to find an alternative.