Lawn with own hands

Any modern homestead or cottage area today is difficult to imagine without a well-groomed lawn. The presence of a piece of green surface is prestigious and useful. It can be arranged both on large landed estates and on a tiny plot. Decorate lawns variegated bushes, trees, as well as flower beds with flowers. In addition to the decorative component, the lawns carry a healing function. After all, they are natural filters that trap dust on the site. But to create a lawn with your own hands is not so difficult, it is enough to show a little imagination and diligence.

What kinds of lawns exist

All existing lawns are divided into sports and decorative. Sports lawns are not very interesting to us, as they are arranged on sports grounds and open stadiums. But let's take a closer look at the decorative ones, since they are suitable for any household plots. All decorative lawns are divided into several separate groups:

• Garden or park lawns or ordinary lawns.
• Ground floor.
• Meadow.
• Moorish.

Each of them can have some narrowly directed subspecies for the device on specific areas of the earth: in shading, along roads or fences, on the slopes of hills or ravines. Sometimes in the design of the suburban areas you can find a wonderful combination of several types. Before you start to arrange a lawn on your piece of land, you need to decide for what purposes you need it first. After all, for recreation and walks barefoot is suitable for ordinary, to create a decorative prestigious design of the site - porter, and for those who want to create a piece of wild meadow and herbs, you must know about the Moorish and lawn lawn. For those who like to organize sports, training, or want to build a children's playground in their yard, it is better to make a sports type of lawn in order to avoid trampling down the grass.

Ordinary lawns

It is designed for purely utilitarian purposes: walks, outdoor games, that is for everyday life. The species composition of herbs in such coatings is not distinguished by refinement, special beauty or rarity. But the seeds for them are quite reasonable money. More often such lawn grass mixtures contain: a comb ordinary, ryegrass perennial, timothy grass small and meadow, a bentgrass, fescue, wheatgrass, a rumpless and innumerable species of bluegrass. All of them are cereals. From legumes they have a white creeping clover.

All these cultures are not very beautiful, but they are difficult to trample when they walk. He can withstand up to 200 human steps per square meter every day. In addition, these herbs perfectly take root and quickly form a turf. The drawback is one - very rapid growth, especially in wet weather. Therefore, such lawns have to mow practically every week.

Parterre lawn - a living masterpiece in your garden

This is the very pure English emerald lawn of elite quality. Its main mission is the decoration of the site. On porteru it is impossible to go, as the grass perishes at even insignificant influence. You need to cut it very low. The grasses take root long and hard, and the cost of seeds is very high. It's easier to lay a ready parterre lawn from turf rolls, but it will cost even more. Species composition of grasses in it is fundamentally different: narrow-leaved, low-growing cereals predominate, among which in our climate individual varieties of fescue, blue meadow grass, white bilge are best. Anyone who wants to create such a decorative lawn on the site can get quite expensive herbal mixtures specially selected for their growth and color, such as the "Royal carpet" or the "Old Park".

Moorish and meadow lawn - a bright lawn in your yard

The peculiarity of these types of lawns is that a large number of wild and constantly flowering cereals are present in the herbs. Such lawns are more like a meadow, with its motley grass and a huge number of different colors. It is best for the Moorish lawn to allocate a small area along the fence or a separate patch in the center of the main ordinary lawn. It will be a beautiful multi-colored accent and delight you throughout the summer with bright colors of flowers.

Lawn technology: preparing a lawn land

Choosing a site for laying a lawn is the most important moment. It should be well lit - in the shade can be no more than 4 hours for a light day. The place must necessarily be dry, since a dense grass cover can quickly turn stagnant soil into a marshy area. If you can not find a dry place on your site, and you want a lawn, make a drain.

First, the pad is cleaned of any garbage on it. The mounds are cut off, and the holes are covered with soil. It will be better if a year before sowing the soil is dig through and remove all the roots of the weeds. If there is a turf, it is cut and taken out of the site. The control of weeds is made by special herbicides, which are directed only at dicotyledonous plants. Grass mixtures for lawns consist of monocotyledons, so you will not harm them. You can note such drugs as: tornado, lontrell-300, roundup. It is desirable to process the site twice: in spring and in autumn. Remove dead weeds 10 days after spraying.

Presowing soil cultivation and fertilizing with fertilizers

Soil fertilization is performed depending on its properties. Sandy loam and light loam fertilize with organic: manure or compost. It is better to do it in the spring. They are brought to a depth of 3 to 5 cm in an amount of about 60 kg per hundred parts. In acid soils, 80 kg of lime are applied per 1 weave. In the sandy soil add loam or peat mixture, and in clay the same peat and sand. The top layer of soil under the lawn should be the most fertile and fine-grained. The size of individual lumps should not exceed 2 cm.

The area is carefully leveled with a liquid level. Then compact with a roller or simple board. The process is interrupted for 10 days, for which the soil will finally settle. In this case, the appearing of the drawdowns are leveled with the help of rakes. In the event that there was no fertile soil on the site, then it is first delivered there, after which an equalization is made.

Seeding of the lawn seeds

For sowing, choose a windless sunny day at an air temperature of 14 to 15 degrees. It is best to do this at the end of April, but maybe even until September. Before starting to sow, a complex of mineral fertilizers is introduced into the soil: 20 g of ammonium sulfate, 35 g of superphosphate, 8 g of potassium sulphate in each square meter of the site. The mixture is evenly applied to the soil with the help of rakes. If the soil is too dry, it should be moistened so that it is wet to a depth of about 20 cm. This is roughly the bucket of water per m2.

Seeds are dispersed by uniform strips at first along, and then across the site. The edges of the platform require a more dense planting. The easiest way is to sow seeds with a seeder. Small seeds rake deepen to a depth of about 1 cm, and large to 5 cm in too dry weather, this parameter should be slightly increased, only with the shoots will be later. The average rate of seed sowing of grass mixtures varies for different compositions from 30 to 50 g / m2.In case the seeds are separate and of different sizes, they first sow large, but only after them smaller ones.

After all the seeds are sown, you need to mulch the surface layer of soil and roll it with a roller or a sheet of plywood or a wide board. It should be remembered that the soil must be absolutely dry, otherwise it will stick. In the process of germination, the surface crust formed is very accurately crushed by rakes. After the shoots appear, it is necessary to sow the formed bald spots. The first few days the lawn requires constant watering. The soil should not dry up, otherwise the seeds may not ascend.

Home Lawn Maintenance

In order to keep the lawn for a long time its decorative appearance, it is necessary to carry out permanent care, which consists of watering, feeding, removing weeds and debris, repairing tear marks and timely cutting.

Sprouts on the lawn appear after 14 - 20 days. At this point, you need to remove all the garbage that has appeared, and spread the sprouts with a very light roller. It is necessary to tread carefully so as not to make a mark. You can tie pieces of plywood to your feet or wear snowshoes. In a couple of days the grass will rise and begin to grow. The first haircut is made after reaching its growth of 8 - 10 cm. Cut the grass on an overcast day every 2 weeks for 3 - 4 cm after each hairstyle the thickness of the grass carpet should not exceed 10 cm. Over time, the root system will become stronger and turf formation will begin. Mow the lawn with various lawn mowers or trimmers, which creates an even carpet that has a decorative look.

The first haircut is a stress for the grass, so the lawn needs to be fed with ammonium sulfate or ammonium nitrate in an amount of at least 5 g / m2.Fertilizers are watered abundantly with water, so that the granules are dissolved. Watering is best done through sprinkling devices twice a week, and when drought every day. Water the lawn in the evening so that the leaves of the grass do not get sunburn. The soil should be spilled to a depth of 15 cm.

Lawn device made from ready-made turf rolls.

. If you do not have time to fiddle with the sowing and germination of cereals, which do not always rise, then you should pay attention to ready-made rolled lawns. They are a turf of grass grasses, grown according to all the existing rules of agricultural technology, rolled up into rolls. As part of such a lawn, there are no any weeds, and you only have to lay the carpets on your site and take care of them. True pleasure is not cheap: the cost of 1 m2 can reach 5 USD.

The preparation of the site for laying the rolled lawn is carried out in the same way as for the sowing crops. The platform should be leveled, and the soil coiled, but loose enough that the roots of the turf could take root. Laying of carpets must be done immediately after buying rolls, otherwise the roots in them can bend. To calculate the required amount of material, you need to multiply the area of ​​your site by a factor of 1, 25. For example, 150 lawn lawns will be needed for a lawn area of ​​120 m2.

Rolls are staggered. It is necessary to move each subsequent roll relative to the previous one so that the joints do not form a straight line. In places of mating, the rolls are lapped, then tamped into each other. This promotes their good bonding with each other. Put all the rolls in no more than 2 days. After you have laid the lawn, it needs daily intensive watering in the first 2 weeks, after which it can be walked freely. In the water you need to add fertilizers and various fertilizing, which favors survival and growth of herbs. Caring for a roll lawn is no different from caring for the usual.

In the article, all stages of creating your own lawn are described in great detail, therefore it will not be difficult to arrange it at your site on the basis of these recommendations.