The rolled lawn has number of advantages before sowing. It will be ideal for those seasonal dachas which are going to be planted trees and shrubs independently and quickly. The main thing is to choose lawn of excellent quality.
Very first that needs to be made upon purchase of rolled lawn - to check its quality. For this purpose it is necessary to roll a little roll and to look whether there are no weeds among the seeded cereals. Availability of bald spots is the reason too to refuse such lawn. It is important that the layer of the turf was identical everywhere. If the root system at lawn is developed well, then roots will be densely bound among themselves, and the grass will not be showered.
Preparation of the territory is made for lawn in advance as it is necessary to lay rolls in day of purchase or on following. It will help to create equal cover. Therefore it is necessary:
- to clean the site from different garbage, plants and stubs;
- on clay soil to make drainage over which to fill fertile soil and to stamp it;
- to level surface that the lawn has turned out everywhere at one level.
The rolled lawn can be stacked during all summer season, but it is better to do it in the spring when survival of plants higher.
As it is correct to lay rolled lawn
It is more convenient to begin it to do from that edge where rolls have been put. So they should not be dragged here and there, and the quality of lawn will not suffer. The roll rolls out on straight line even if on the line there is bed. It will be necessary to cut off the excess pieces coming on it later. It is better to stack small pieces of lawn in the middle, but not at the edges. So the lawn will look uniform. Rolls do not stack joint in joint. It is done by the principle of brickwork. When the first row of lawn is laid, it is necessary to check whether there are under it no poles or hillocks. In the presence of those it is necessary to level surface under roll and to stamp. The following number of rolls stack without overlap, but also the gap between rolls should not be more than 2 cm. At the same time it is necessary to move not on the grass, and on wood deck from several boards. After the lawn is laid, about a month on it it is impossible to go, and the first 2 weeks it need to be watered that roots have taken root.
Care for rolled lawn
The lawn is watered 1 time in 10 days in dry weather. The broken-through weeds delete. The first hairstyle is carried out in 4 weeks, taking only the top of grass. The last hairstyle is recommended to be carried out in September, leaving grass 4 cm high. All vegetable garbage from lawn is put away rake. Carry out aeration and skarifikation of lawn, as well as fertilizing by fertilizers in the spring.