Fun Turfgrass Facts

Unusual, and not totally uninteresting

In a well maintained, thick 10,000 square foot lawn there will be:

• 6 grass plants per inch
• 850 grass plants per square foot
• 8.5 million grass plants per average home
• 622 kilometres of roots per grass plant
• 4.8 billion kilometres of roots per average lawn (which equals 15 round trips between the sun and the earth)
• Up to 90% of the weight of a grass plant is in its rootsGrass Plants are 75 – 80% water, by weight
• Grass clippings are approximately 90% water, by weight
• A 50 by 50 foot lawn releases enough oxygen for a family of four, while absorbing carbon dioxide, hydrogen floride, perosyacetyle nitrate.