How to sow a lawn in the country
No garden is complete without a lawn. The lawn is a great place for outdoor activities or a picnic. The flat green surface is the ideal background for any landscape composition.
Growing a lawn is a very difficult and troublesome undertaking. How to sow the lawn correctly so that in the future it will bring us only positive emotions?
Stages of lawn arrangement
A sowing lawn device consists of several stages, and each of them is extremely important:
- The first thing to do when setting up a lawn is to inspect your site. If there is weed vegetation on it, then you need to remove it using herbicides or by hand.
- Recultivate the soil, that is, dig it up.
- Bring fertile soil and level it. The thickness of the fertile layer should be 6-10 cm, this is enough for the lawn. On loamy infertile soils, you can pour 20 cm of soil. The composition should not include black soil, as it cakes over time and forms a crust. We use a peat-sand mixture with an admixture of sod land. It is fertile and better suited to the lawn. It is necessary to make a minimum slope towards the fence (1 cm per 1 m of the site length) to drain excess water.
- The fourth stage is soil rolling with the help special ice rink and aligning it with a rule (board).
- Next, we sow the lawn by hand, using the “old-fashioned” method, and plant the seeds in the soil with a rake, or slightly mulch them with earth. Then it is necessary to water the area well by sprinkling. Lawn grass seeds, depending on the type of plant, can be in the ground for 7 to 20 days. Ryegrass has the fastest germination. The number of seeds is 3-5 kg per one hundred square meters. Sowing should be done in dry, windless weather.
- In 20-30 days after sowing, the lawn must be mowed, the height of the grass stand should be about 15 cm. Mowing is done to a height of 5 cm so that the lawn mower does not cut the growing point of the grass.
- After the first mowing of the lawn, it is necessary to withstand 7-10 days so that the grass grows to a height of about 12 cm. We do the second mowing.
It is better to use a lawn mower, and use a trimmer to cut the grass near the curb, corners of the house and in other hard-to-reach places.
The composition of the grass mixture for the lawn
The composition of the grass mixture: fescue, ryegrass, bluegrass and bent grass. Fescue creates a general cover. Ryegrass - cover density, it has the fastest germination. Bluegrass gives silky and emerald color to the lawn. Pole grass is a grass that forms an "undercoat". It is soft and low in height and sods very well. For 1 kg of grass mixture, you need to take 50 g of bent grass.
Not a single lawn can withstand deep shading. But in areas where there is sun for some time during the day, you can sow a herbal mixture of three varieties of fescue: meadow, sheep and red in equal proportions. Such a lawn will not be very dense because water stagnates in the shade, moss forms and the process of photosynthesis slows down.