Planting and lawn care rules

The lush green grass in front of the house looks very aesthetically pleasing and brings many benefits. Plants perfectly absorb dust, purifying the air in the country, increasing humidity and making the backyard beautiful and well-groomed. Before planting a lawn with your own hands, you need to think carefully about what it will be used for and purchase the necessary seeds in the store.

What are the lawns

A lawn is a kind of rammed area sown with dense or creeping grasses. It can be placed in different corners of the personal plot.

1. For an area where children often play, or for a football field, it is better to purchase a special sports mixture of herbs that is denser than others and is not afraid of trampling.
2. The English lawn is planted to decorate landscape compositions, fountains and statues in parks. You can't run with a ball there, the delicate grass will immediately lose its gorgeous look. She needs to be looked after regularly, often watered and cut.
3. The Moorish lawn is usually laid out in front of the house. It consists of a mixture of meadow grasses. These can be cornflowers, chamomiles, red poppies, echinacea, and many others. It all depends on the owner's imagination and preferences. Seeds can be collected by hand or purchased assorted. You should not run on such a lawn. The grass instantly crumples and is difficult to recover.
4. The easiest way to plant a park and garden lawn. For him, unpretentious herbs are suitable that do not need specific care. Such a lawn is used to decorate the land in front of the pool and various recreation areas.

When you decide what kind of lawn you want to see in the country, and you purchase planting material, you can start preparing the soil.

How to prepare the soil

To keep the lawn thick and beautiful, it is important to properly prepare the soil. This is the most difficult moment, requiring some effort and time.

1. First of all, inspect the garden and try to level it. Fill in any holes and make sure there are no more relief drops.
2. Dig the ground thoroughly onto the bayonet of the shovel, carefully breaking up the lumps. Such care will improve the air permeability of the soil.
3. Check carefully the thickness of the fertile soil. It should be at least 15 cm. When there is not enough soil, be sure to add it to the desired size.
4. If there are small pebbles, branches and other debris on the site, get rid of them.
5. Do not forget to remove the weeds, and when digging, try to pull out all the roots that you notice with your own hands from the ground.

When the soil is dug up, you need to correctly apply mineral fertilizers. Do not neglect this step. Grass needs nutrients to grow quickly. You can use the following components:

• ammonium nitrate at the rate of 40 g per m2².
• potassium sulfate - 30 g per m2².
• double superphosphate - 40 g per m2².
• magnesium and boron - 2 g per m2².

Spread the first three ingredients evenly on top of the soil, and dilute the magnesium with boron in the liquid and saturate the garden with it.

It often happens that there is no time to use individual components. Then get a mineral complex in the store. The preparations developed by the "Russian lawns" firm have proven themselves well.

Alignment

In order for the lawn in the country, made by hand, to please the eye for a long time, the soil must be properly leveled and tamped before sowing the grass. This maintenance can be accomplished with a massive, fine-toothed rake. After processing the soil, they put a wide board on it and begin to walk on it. The ground should be well compacted and not sag underfoot.

Advice

Use a garden roller instead of a board.Walk them around the site, making some effort. The earth will quickly settle and become dense.

To prevent weeds from interfering with the development of the lawn, after leveling the soil, you will need to thoroughly water the lawn. In a few days, young shoots of weed grass will hatch from the ground. Remove them carefully along with the roots. Such care will relieve excess vegetation for a long time. After that, do not forget to weed the garden and finally level it.

What grass to plant

Do-it-yourself lawn planting in the country will be more successful if you use a mixture of herbs. It takes root better.

In our climatic conditions, they often plant:

• red or sheep fescue;
• thin or escaping bent grass;
• pasture ryegrass;
• meadow bluegrass.

These plants are hardy, unpretentious. They only need to be watered regularly and provided with minimal maintenance.

Sowing technology

It is better to plant the lawn in the spring, in mid-May, when the land on the site has already warmed up enough and a lot of moisture has remained in it. Sometimes the lawn is sown in August. It's a good time too. The main thing is to guess so that about 2 months remain before the cold weather begins. During this time, plant roots will form their own system and get stronger.

You need to choose a sunny day for work, when there is no wind.

1. Small seeds are difficult to plant evenly, so for convenience they are mixed with sand in a 1: 1 ratio.
2. Divide the prepared planting material into two identical parts.
3. They are raked on the future lawn.
4. One part of the seeds is sown along the garden bed, and the other - across.
5. Places along the edge of the lawn are covered with seeds denser than the rest of the plot.

At the end, you need to carefully sprinkle the bed with a layer of peat. Such care is necessary to retain moisture and protect delicate seeds from ultraviolet radiation.

Watering the lawn

The technology of growing lawn grass requires frequent watering of the lawn during seed germination. Do this with soft sprinklers. The optimal time to moisturize is evening or early morning. Make sure that the moisture soaks the soil 10 cm deep. Only in this way the plants will sprout quickly. It is necessary to prevent the washing of seeds from the soil, the formation of puddles and stagnant water on the site.

Important!

Under no circumstances should the earth dry up. Swollen seeds in dried up soil instantly die. If the lawn is watered regularly, the grass will begin to hatch out of the ground after 2 weeks.

How to care for your lawn

If you planted a lawn with your own hands in the spring, in the summer you will already have a beautiful green lawn, which must be properly looked after. In the first year, it must be especially taken care of. Try to walk less on the lawn, do not let cats or dogs rummage in the grass.

The main care a lawn needs in summer is mowing. With its help, weeds are easily destroyed, the elegant appearance of the lawn is preserved, the density and density of the sown material is increased.

1. For the first time, trimming is done when the plants have reached a length of 10 cm. Then 2 cm of the tips of the leaves are cut off.
2. Then the mow is carried out weekly with a lawn mower. Leave the greenery 3-4 cm from the ground. When it gets longer, it often slopes down, and the lawn in the country looks unpresentable.
3. Remove cut grass immediately. If you leave it, bald patches quickly form under it, and the grass cover is difficult to restore.

For crops to grow well, they need to be watered as soon as the topsoil dries up. Aridity leads to the fact that the grass instantly turns yellow and begins to wilt.

During the summer, the grass on the lawn is often deficient in potassium. To replenish it fertilize the lawn... Experienced gardeners use a good anti-stress supplement Kali Gazon in the country. It was developed by German scientists and works great on plants. They have increased immunity to diseases, resistance to pests, increased drought resistance. It must be used correctly. Apply Kali Gazon 2-3 times per summer, for each m² spending 30 g of funds.

In early September, lawn care involves another feeding with superphosphate and potassium sulfate. A week after it, it is advisable to treat the area with Agrokiller, a modern herbicide. It will help to completely destroy weeds, the fight against which is very tiring.

At the end of September, the cultivation technology requires mowing the lawn, weeding weeds or pulling out single specimens with our own hands, raking up fallen leaves and sowing seeds into bald areas of the lawn.

You can't do without a lawn in the country. It fits perfectly into the landscape design and creates a single finished picture. To preserve the attractiveness of the lawn, you need a little - to regularly care for it, water it often, treat it carefully and with love.