HELP! Lawn near beach dies every year...?

Question:The lawn is above the beach level behind a concrete and stone sea wall, but under some weather conditions the grass is exposed to salt water and inevitably dies. The beach house is in the Northeast.

Is there a particularly durable variety of grass or even a high quality artificial/synthetic turf that would last under these conditions?

Any advice will be very much appreciated!

Answers:
Grass, and most other plants hate salt.

You could try applying gypsum to the lawn to counteract the salts, but I'm not sure that's going to do it.

Check with your local garden shop to see if they could recommend a sal-tolerant grass for use there..

..or you could consider more sandy beach.