The beautiful well-groomed lawn can decorate any yard and also serve as safe carpet on the playground, magnificent background for flower bed and oxygen source in the area with unsuccessful ecology.
Preparation of the soil
Preparation of the soil – the most labor-consuming stage of the device of lawn. As a result the flat site with fertile layer without weeds and garbage has to turn out. If on your site the sandy soil, and water is absorbed very quickly, it is possible not to think of drainage. On sites with the arranged drainage system it is important to provide biases towards the collecting drains. If the clay soil and water stands in the place of future lawn, it is necessary to make additional efforts.
The simplest system of drainage begins with removal of fertile soil layer 10-15 cm thick and creation of biases for water drain. The lower layer of the earth is covered with gravel or beaten brick, powdered with ten-centimetric layer of sand and properly stamped. After that the fertile layer is returned into place, leveled and all roll skating rink weighing not less than 100-120 kg.
As skating rink for ramming of the soil the gardeners quite often use the barrel filled with water.
That the broken lawn pleased you with the beauty many years, take care of soil preparation. It has to possess good water - and air permeability, average density, sufficient reserve of nutrients and neutral reaction of PH. Prepare torfo-sand mix. For this purpose mix the cespitose earth, sand and peat in equal quantities. Add set of mineral fertilizers and lime.
Crops
The optimum period for crops of seeds of lawn grass is the spring and the end of summer. Sowing lawn in the middle of the summer, be ready to providing to shoots of regular watering. As in the fall on germination of herbs more time leaves, calculate sowing time so that shoots have managed to rise by 10 cm before the onset of cold weather. It is not recommended to choose for crops of lawn the prewinter period at all – many seeds can die, and remained will ascend unevenly. A day before crops top layer it is necessary it is abundant to water (on condition of dry weather). Seeds sow in windless weather. All mix is divided into four or two parts and distributed on the surface of the soil as follows: one part across the site, another – lengthways. It is important not to bury seeds more deeply, than at 2 cm, otherwise they will not ascend.
For visual control of density of sowing the seeds are recommended to be mixed with sand in the ratio 1:1.
Before emergence of shoots the sowed site should be watered daily in the morning and in the evening. That the strong stream has not washed away seedlings, it is necessary to carry out watering watering can with the small sprayer. Depending on weather patterns the shoots have to appear for 7-21 days.