Have you decided to realize the dream of a chic green lawn in front of the house? And even cleared and leveled the landing area? And laying the finished rolled lawn turned out to be an expensive pleasure for you? Well, it's time to understand in detail how to plant lawn grass yourself. There is nothing complicated about it, you just have to go through several stages in a certain sequence.
Layout
To sow lawn grass ideally, it is advisable to draw a diagram of the future lawn in your area in advance. Decide which flower beds to place on it, whether to leave trees, whether you will grow individual groups of flowers. The placement of design elements must be planned in advance so that in the future there will be no problems with cutting the ascended grass. When thinking about how to plant lawn grass, consider the location of all flower beds and paths. Try to get a convenient distance between the sowed grass and the curbs for the mower to work - it should be at least one meter, otherwise you will have to trim the lawn in inconvenient places with garden shears.
Lawn preparation and grass selection
This stage is also very important. Under lonely shrubs and trees, plant ground-cover unpretentious rug plants, for example, clover, alissums or stonecrops (instead of a lawn grass mixture). You can sprinkle the tree trunk circle with decorative crumb, it will turn out beautifully, accurately and in its own way original.
Soil preparation includes the following important points:
- Thorough cleaning of garbage from the territory.
- Uprooting of roots and stumps.
- Weed removal.
- Digging the ground.
- Adding organic fertilizer.
- Creating a layer of crushed stone.
- Leveling the ground from bumps and pits.
- Compaction of the earth with a skating rink.
- Loosening the soil with a rake.
Before sowing the long-awaited grass, the prepared area should be left for a month or two, and at this time, to engage in the selection of the desired grass mixture.
Of course, it is important to know how to plant lawn grass correctly, but it is no less serious to take the choice of grass varieties individually for your site. Usually use a mixture with different varieties that complement each other for various indicators. If you are making grass mixtures yourself, when choosing various options, take into account the local climate, lighting,
soil composition and the purpose of the lawn. Perhaps it makes sense to contact a specialist who will give useful tips and fully advise on how to plant lawn grass.
Sowing
It is not recommended for beginners to mix seeds with sand, since you can mix more sand than required, and this is not good. It is better to achieve uniform sowing with a special seeder or just do it manually along and across (30-40 seeds per square meter). Now gently walk on the ground with a rake, and then with a special skating rink, so that the seeds are properly seized deeper in the soil. Water the crops well with a sprinkler. Throughout the week, provide small-droplet watering so that the water does not erode the ground and does not wash off the sprouts. Your lawn will rise within a week.