Nice looking greens can raise your spirits and even improve your well-being if you are happy to walk barefoot on the green lawn. If our ancestors struggled in every way with the grass in their kitchen gardens, considering it a weed, then modern residents of country houses and happy owners of suburban areas with the greatest pleasure not only do not fight it, but also sow it. In this article, we will discuss such a moment of ennobling the garden plots as sowing of the grass grass in stages.
Lawn grass on the site photo
True, the grass is not suitable for everyone, but special, giving a stable greens and actively growing. Yes, and caring for a lawn in the country or a lot requires a lot, that's why in Western countries this task is entrusted to specialists. However, some of our compatriots do not want to bother with growing grass from seeds, but prefer to buy ready-made lawn grass in rolls. Well, this is a great option. But we are not looking for easy ways, so we will plant lawn grass with our own hands.
Lawn grass in the country house
Any arrangement for the development of a site or landscape requires planning and preparation. And the sowing of the lawn is no exception. It is not enough to know just how to sow lawn grass, it is also important to follow the rules of preparation. So, let's describe the process step-by-step.
Step one - planning the site
Unfortunately or fortunately - without planning in our business is indispensable. To begin with, you need to think through all the smallest moments of landscape design and break the terrain into plots. In fact, to protect a part of the garden with a natural stone or to make an alpine hill is better before sowing lawns, otherwise the lush foliage will be trampled by workers during the construction of landscape elements.
In addition, planning will competently combine elements of landscape design among themselves. They in fact should create the complete, finished picture, instead of to stand scattered on a garden site, correctly?
Step two - preparing the soil
At this stage, you need to make sure that the earth is clean, without last year's leaves and various debris. But especially carefully, we should clean the soil of weeds, not only from their stems on the soil surface, but also from the roots.
Imagine the situation: today you have weeded all the grass, mowed all the weeds, and a week later, when you start to water the lawn often, all these weeds will begin to show activity - they will get out of the earth at such a speed that you will take your head.
After all, as a result of sowing the grass, we want to get a beautiful lawn with a monophonic green surface, and not a forest edge with various plants of different heights and different shades, from yellow to red and blue.
To clean the soil of weeds, it is desirable to treat it with herbicides, take, for example, the preparation Roundup( it is better to carry out the treatment in autumn, and plant grass - in the spring).If the place of the proposed lawn is completely "clogged" with weeds, then experts suggest a more radical way - to remove the top layer of soil( about 15cm) and replace it with new soil.
Of course, for lush vegetation and good growth of grass before planting it is better to make fertilizer, you can take the same humus. And you can do without fertilizer.
Stage three - sowing grass grass
After all the preparatory work is completed, we reached the main thing - direct sowing of lawn grass .
Do not dig up the soil before planting. If you want to get a truly uniform velvet green surface, then you need to tamp down the earth to such an extent that you can walk on it. And just before planting, you just have to rake and sweep the top layer of the earth( if the roots of plants come up - they must be removed).
In our example, we draw up a "lawn" plot of land under a fruit tree. We wish to receive a small green oasis among the concrete paths.
Planting lawn grass with your own hands
To begin with, we water a lot of land. The earth must be wet not only on the surface.
How to plant lawn grass
Next, take a packet of grass. ..
Seed grass seeds
. .. and sow seeds.
How to sow lawn grass
If the planted area is large, then usually sow first along the site, and then - across. The rates of seeding depend on the type of lawn destination grass and range from 10 to 40 g per 1 sq. M.
And a little more, while turning on the power of the powerful water spray, so that the seeds remain on the ground evenly.
Seeding grass lawn
Generally, lawn grass seeds are usually sown to a depth of 1-2 cm. But we did not fill them with earth, just tamped them down so that they did not fly away.
How to sow lawn grass
A week later we saw the first shoots of grass. And after a few weeks our "lawn" became completely green. It's time to take scissors to cut it.
Seeding grass with your own hands
As you can see, sowing lawn grass is not a difficult process that everyone can repeat, and as a result you get a beautiful and juicy vegetation that not only pleases the eye, but also serves as a place for a comfortable and even active rest, withteam games.
Lawn in the country house - a place for rest
Author of the article Sergey Golikov
