The lawn is the parcel with well-groomed grassy cover. The lawn performs not only decorative function, it also improves site microclimate, absorbs dust.
Species of lawn herbs
Lawn herbs choose depending on type of lawn – parterre, Mauritian, park, sports, rolled, ordinary.
Herbs for lawn are divided into long-term and one-year. Treat annual lawn herbs – meadow grass one-year and ryegrass one-year. They grow in year and give seeds, then die off. Usually they are used for creation of Mauritian lawn.
Long-term herbs grow and give seeds within long years. They are divided into three tiers: photophilous, semi-riding and local herbs. Treat the first type of lawn herbs: kostrets bezosty, foxtail meadow, lucerne blue, Agropyron uzkopolosy. They practically do not cluster and have big stalks and leaves. Semi-riding herbs – fescue meadow, lucerne yellow, herd grass meadow, ryegrass pasturable and multiflowered. Local herbs have narrow stalks and thin leaves. Representatives of local lawn herbs: meadow meadow grass, polevitsa ordinary, polevitsa white, grebennik ordinary, clover white, fescue red. For parterre lawns use herbs with low dense herbage and bright coloring. For example, different types of fescue, meadow grass and polevitsa thin. Sow with herbs, resistant to trampling and loadings, decorative and sports lawns. Normally it is long-term herbs with wide leaf. The rolled lawn on which various herbs perfectly grow enjoys wide popularity. Such lawn looks good even at rare watering.
Crops of lawn herbs
The soil for lawn herbs has to be not absolutely easy and to have thickness of 20-50 centimeters. It is necessary to bring peat and sand in too heavy soil. Before crops of herbs it needs to be loosened.
If to the soil to introduce fertilizers, the lawn will be more magnificent. Feed up lawn greens the mineral fertilizers consisting of potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen.
It is necessary to put lawn in the early spring or at the end of summer. About 50 grams of seeds are spent for 1 square meter of the earth. Depth of landing is 1 centimeter.
Care for lawn
The lawn grass needs to be watered periodically. In hot weather with interval in 3-5 days. In normal bezdozhdevy - once a week.
Herbs of dandelion, Veronika creeping, plantain, it is necessary to weed in due time from lawn. Otherwise they will quickly extend on all lawn area.
The hairstyle of lawn is made every seven days, leaving grass 3-5 centimeters high. The mowed grass needs to be removed from lawn, otherwise under it the growing greens vypret.