Gone are the days when everyone sought to plant their summer cottages or household plots with vegetable beds. Now many seek to turn these areas into recreation areas, nicely furnished and pleasing to the eye.
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Fans of various colors fragrant flowerbed or bright green grass lawn lovers of rural recreation prefer beds with beets or potatoes. But do not think that arranging the first is easier than growing the second. And the matter is not even in laboriousness, but in knowledge. Before proceeding, for example, to arranging a lawn, one must arm himself with knowledge of how and when to sow lawn grass. There may be several options for this, however, like any other.
Grass is planted either in spring, in April - May, or in early autumn, in late August - September, and some do this even in summer. Yet when is it better to sow lawn grass? By and large, there is no significant difference - in spring or early fall - no, the main thing is to do everything right.
We start work in the fall
We choose a place for the lawn, taking into account the landscape design of the entire site. Then we free it from garbage, that is, from weeds, stones, tree roots and shrubs, while digging it well. To surely deal with weeds, it is worth using herbicides such as "Antiburyan", "Hurricane", "Roundup Max". Having done this work, we level the earth with a rake on the future lawn and leave it alone until spring, so that during the winter it is rammed and settled.
We continue in the spring
You think that the time has come when you can sow lawn grass. Do not hurry. First, you need to compact the lawn area with a roller, which can be made from a barrel or from a pipe. Then it is necessary to carry out a surface powder from a mixture of sand and peat with the addition of organic and mineral fertilizers. It will help not only enrich the earth with useful substances, but also remove voids, make the plot smoother. However, it will not hurt to once again compact the ground with an ice rink.
The next step is directly sowing. Having decided on when to sow lawn grass, you need to make sure that one more important condition is met. Dry and calm weather should be in the yard. Because the seeds of lawn grass are very light and they will quickly be carried away by the wind. Spread the seeds first along, then across the site.
After sowing, sprinkle the seeds with sand or peat and tamp the earth a little. Then gently spray the lawn.
When to sow lawn grass and how to do it, we decided, the question remains: "What seeds to choose?" As a rule, they use most often a variety of mixtures of herbs, choose slowly growing ones, such as a field grass, bluegrass, and fescue. It is believed that a mixture of two herbs has worked well: "English grass" and "football grass." It is necessary to sow at the rate of: 50 grams per 1 square meter of area.
Lawn Care
The first two weeks after sowing, the grass must be watered so that it sprouts well.
Weeds will not slow down to appear at the place of sowing, but they should not be rushed to pull out: let the lawn grass root first.
The first mowing of the lawn is recommended to be done with special scissors, you need to cut the grass to the ground. The next time you can use the lawn mower.
Periodically during the summer, you should pierce the turf of the lawn with a pitchfork so that oxygen enters the roots of the plants.
If everything is done correctly, armed with knowledge of how and when to sow lawn grass, then after some time a smooth bright green carpet will decorate any personal plot.