Watering the lawn equipment with their own hands. Proper lawn watering

In order for the lawn to be constantly green, to grow well and densely, and, importantly, to be able to walk on it, it must be watered correctly and regularly. The intensity of watering depends on many factors, such as the type of lawn, season, air and water temperature. A lawn that does not need to be watered and mowed exists only in the dreams of gardeners, since any plant needs to be looked after. Both seeded and rolled lawn require careful care, regardless of where it grows: in the country house or in the area near the house.

When to water the lawn?

The frequency of watering the lawn directly depends on the air temperature. When asked when is the best time to do this, the answer is simple - throughout the summer season. The irrigation season begins from the moment the seeds are sown in early spring and ends only with the onset of cold weather.

A new turf must be watered immediately after laying the strips, and if the land is large, then during the laying of the rolls.

There is no exact formula for proper watering with the ratio of water amount and regularity, since all components change depending on the size of the site, grass type and climate. For example, white bentgrass can dry out at the first rise in air temperature in summer if it is not watered twice a day (morning and evening), while fescue is able to tolerate drought and continue to grow immediately after watering or warm rain. For people who do not have enough free time, it is recommended to choose a variety of grass that is resistant to heat.

The approximate regularity of watering a lawn planted from seeds in spring and summer:

• during a severe drought and a rise in air temperature to 30 degrees Celsius and above, it is recommended to water the site daily in the morning and evening;
• under the same conditions as described above, but for a lawn grown on sandy soil, the frequency of watering is reduced to once every 2 or 3 days;
• in cool and windy weather, watering should be carried out at least once a week.

Note: in autumn, the lawn should be watered at intervals of 1 time in 10 days.

Rolled lawn, even in hot weather, should not be watered more than 3 or 4 times a week. The soil should dry out well between waterings. Watering a lawn laid out from rolls should be plentiful so that the soil is saturated with moisture at least 10 cm deep. The approximate amount of water per 1 square meter is 20 liters.

It is not recommended to water the lawn during the daytime in the heat, as plants can get burned due to drops of cool water. During the day, you can water the site only in cool weather or in the autumn. In the evening, it is recommended to water the lawn between 4 and 6 hours, so that the grass dries out a little before nightfall, otherwise high humidity can cause a fungal disease.

Signs of lack of moisture

For healthy growth of lawn grass, it is important to observe systematic watering. Watering a site is just as dangerous as not watering it often enough.

The first signs that the grass lacks moisture are as follows:

• the lawn began to “trample down” (the grass almost does not rise after being crushed down);
• the grass begins to curl;
• color changes from deep green to brown;
• bald spots appear on the site;
• the grass begins to wither or turn yellow.

Some varieties of plants remain alive even when the blades of grass have dried up, as their root system goes dormant until the next watering. However, dried grass will not become young and green again. Lawn owners will have to wait for a new one to grow.

Extra care

There are several situations in which the lawn needs additional care in the form of watering, regardless of the air temperature, namely:

1. After each haircut, you must first remove all the cut grass with a rake, and then carefully water the area. This is done to give the lawn a fresh and clean look, as well as to help the plants recover after mowing.
2. After fertilizing the grass with dry substances that are physically unable to be absorbed by the roots without moistening the soil, it is watering that helps the top dressing to be fully absorbed by the root system of plants. When using fertilizers diluted in water, such as urea, additional watering is not necessary.

For irrigation, you can use different water: from springs, wells or directly from the tap, however, it must be borne in mind that it is impossible to moisten the soil with cold water (temperature below 11 degrees), as this may damage the root system. In the cool season, for example, in early spring, when the snow melted after winter, the ground dried out and the grass began to turn green, it is recommended to collect water in a large container, wait until it heats up to the desired temperature, and only then water.

If weeds have appeared on the lawn that cannot be destroyed by ordinary grass cutting, you can water the area with selective herbicides. The diluted chemical preparation can only be used in dry, calm weather on those areas of the lawn on which the weed grows. It is necessary to dilute the substance strictly according to the instructions, since a small dosage will not destroy the weed, and a large one can destroy lawn grass.

Lawn care after planting seeds

The most important component of proper lawn care after planting seeds is timely watering. If you sow the seeds, and then do not moisten the soil for a week, the grass will die, since the seeds are not deep in the ground, and because of the wind and sun, the open ground will immediately dry out.

Water a freshly planted lawn daily for the first 10 days. In a decade, the grains will germinate, and the root system will be able to feed on moisture, being at a depth of several centimeters.

For people who are unable to water the recently sown seeds so often, you can use the trick, namely, cover the area with a film that can retain moisture for a long time. After the seeds germinate, the film can be removed, and the breathable cover can be left as long as it does not interfere with grass growth.

You can also use compost to cover the area from the sun, but mulch can only be used for grass that has grown to a height of 7 or 8 cm. After sowing, the area cannot be covered with mulch, as the seeds will not have enough sunlight and they will die.

The lawn can also be watered through the covering material, simply by pouring water from above. One part of the liquid will slide down the material, but the other part will saturate the soil. But, for example, spunbond is unsuitable for irrigation. It protects seedlings from cold weather or heavy rains, so they cover the lawn in late autumn before the onset of winter.

An adult lawn is not as choosy in care as a young one, because for the life of the second, an important criterion is how many times it is watered. After planting, young grass should be moistened at least once a day or two. In extreme heat, the lawn should be watered daily in small portions. As soon as the grass grows up to 7-10 centimeters up, you can start watering the lawn abundantly.

How to water the area?

You can water your lawn in a variety of ways. The choice of equipment directly depends on what the gardener will be more comfortable working with.

Watering supplies are as follows:

1. Garden watering can. The most affordable device with which you can independently water the lawn with any water. The watering can is well suited for the care of small areas or for treating hard-to-reach areas of the lawn, which are not reached by a jet from a hose or sprayer.
   
2. Garden hose. Easy to use and versatile attachment that can be used with special spray nozzles. With the help of nozzles, you can gently water the area without damaging the root system and without washing away the soil. Also, the hose can be used on its own, without a nozzle, for this it is enough to block the jet a little with your finger, achieving a splashing effect. The disadvantages include the fact that the hose needs to be moved across the lawn.
   
3. Perforated hose. A special hose, which has many holes for irrigation over the entire surface. The hose must be placed throughout the entire site and just open the water.
   
4. Sprinkler. A device that converts a powerful hose jet into raindrops. The use of the nozzle does not violate the integrity of the ground cover. It is not recommended to apply in windy weather, as light drops of rain will be immediately carried away to the side by a powerful air stream.
   
5. Circular sprinkler. The device is installed on the territory of the site, during operation it looks like a fountain.
   
6. Rotating sprinkler. A device similar to a conventional sprinkler, but with the ability to adjust the water jet. The watering distance also depends on the power of the jet. Often used in order not to fill the paths, porch, etc.
   
7. Oscillating or rocking sprinkler. A device designed for watering rectangular or square lawns, as it allows you to adjust the range and intensity of the jet.
   
8. Automatic sprinklers. Devices are used in large areas and are installed before laying or seeding the lawn, as they consist of underground pipes, hoses or sprinklers connected to a water source (large tank, pump). There are two types of sprinklers: fixed and recessed. The former are visible on the surface of the lawn, the latter rise only during spraying.
   

For small areas, tools such as a hose, watering can, and sprinklers are fine, while for larger lawns, automatic sprinklers are best.

If you water and fertilize the site in a timely manner, then a thick and green lawn will grow. A young lawn should be watered every other day, rooted - once a week in a temperate climate. In the heat, the amount of watering should be increased as needed. You can water in the morning and in the evening, but the water should not be cold (below 10 degrees). In autumn, watering can be carried out during the daytime. It is necessary to start watering the lawn with the advent of spring, when the sun begins to bake and there are no traces of snow left.

Foreword

Automatic lawn watering is not a luxury, but a necessary tool for a plot of any size to always maintain the right level of moisture in the soil where the plants are planted, and free up landowners a lot of time to do other work. Any person who has minimal skills in handling tools can design and assemble such a system on their own.

Drawing up a lawn watering plan

In order for the self-assembled automatic irrigation system to fully cope with the tasks assigned to it, completely cover the areas irrigated by it and function without failures, you need to design it correctly. In the process of developing a scheme and a water supply system, it is necessary to take into account a considerable number of various factors and details, in particular, the technical capabilities of one or another necessary equipment. Therefore, it is better to design and assemble automatic watering with a specialist, or at least consult with him at all stages of the work. Any unaccounted for nuances can subsequently turn into a detrimental effect on living plants in the form of a lack or excess of supplied moisture or low efficiency of the system and even its inoperability as a whole or its individual elements.

We begin the design of the system with the preparation of a detailed plan of the site with our own hands. Make it better on graph paper and on a scale, for example, 1:10 (1 cm in the drawing is equal to 1 m of the garden). On the plan, it is necessary to indicate the location, shape and size of not only lawns, flower beds and beds, but also paths, houses, outbuildings and other objects. After all, it will be necessary to lay pipes, place other equipment of the irrigation system, and therefore it is already necessary to find the optimal place for them on the drawing, on which their composition and quantity will depend.

Then it is recommended to familiarize yourself with the range of sprinklers (water sprayers) offered in the local distribution network and their technical characteristics. Most often, static (fan) and rotary (with a rotating working part) sprinklers are used for lawn irrigation. The first type is the simplest, most affordable and cheapest. A static sprinkler sprays water like a small fountain. The irrigation radius is only 5 m, and the covered sector can be from 90 o to 360 o. Rotary, depending on the model, spray water within a radius of 5–25 m, and the irrigation sector is like that of stationary or adjustable from 0 o to 360 o. There are other types of sprinklers, for example, oscillating - especially for watering rectangular lawns.

Based on the size, we select the necessary sprinklers in sufficient quantities and arrange them while on the plan. They should completely cover the irrigated areas and at the same time overlap the working sectors as little as possible. It is also undesirable that they water how much in vain the paths, structures and other objects. It is better to start arranging sprinklers from the corner points of lawns. It should also be borne in mind that only devices with the same capacity (flow rate) should be connected to 1 water supply line. We connect sprinklers of the same type on the site plan within the boundaries of each individual lawn into a single network.

If all these conditions are met, then watering will be uniform and without excessive flooding of individual areas of vegetation, even if sprinklers with different productivity are installed on the same lawn. Just more powerful ones will have to be turned off earlier. True, in the case of fully automated irrigation, for this it will be necessary to install additional soil moisture sensors on the lawn so that there is 1 for each sprinkler performance.

If the size of the lawn is much smaller than the spray radius of the sprinkler, for example, it is very narrow, then it is recommended. You can also use micro-sprinklers that irrigate very small areas. True, judging by the reviews, they are often clogged.

Selection of a water intake site on the site

We mark the place of water intake on the site plan. This may be a tap from the water supply, if the supply will come from it. But this source of life-giving moisture can only be used if there is sufficient pressure in it and, preferably, throughout the entire time of the day. The fact is that the operating range of most sprinklers is 2-4 atm., And some need 6 atm. If the pressure is less than what the selected sprinklers need, they will not work. There are, of course, models designed for 1 atm., But they are less effective, and not all areas have such pressure in the connected water pipes. Often the pressure drops as the volume of moisture intake increases.

If the water supply cannot be used, it will be necessary to install a pumping station or a container with 2 pumps: 1 for pumping into the tank, and the other for supplying it to the irrigation system.

The last option is even preferable to the previous 2. The water in the tank will first be heated, and then supplied for irrigation. The station tank or container can be replenished from a water supply system, a well or a well. Their pumping pumps must be designed for the appropriate method of fluid transfer chosen. The station must be with a hydraulic accumulator, and not a storage tank. The place of its installation or tank with pumps will be the point of water intake on the site plan. It is selected according to the following criteria:

• the area occupied by the equipment necessary for the operation of the station or tank with pumps must be sufficient for convenient installation and subsequent maintenance of the latter;
• the possibility of easy and simple supply of the necessary communications - pipes, electrical wiring and control cables.

The dimensions of the required equipment depend on the parameters of the latter, which are determined below by the proposed method.

Development of an automatic irrigation system scheme

The choice of the volume of the tank and the power of the pumps to it, as well as the station, is made based on the required water flow. The total for all sprinklers in 1 minute is calculated by adding their capacities. If it is supposed to do simultaneous irrigation from all sprinklers, then this data is enough to select the right pumping station. We select a unit with a capacity that is 10-15% higher than the calculated flow rate.

To select a less powerful station, it is necessary to calculate the total flow rate of the same type of sprinklers for each lawn and / or for all the proposed water supply lines to which they will be connected. Based on the highest performance of one of the pipelines with sprinklers or several that will be connected at the same time, the unit must be selected.

You can make a more accurate selection of the station if you use the method to determine the parameters of the equipment of the option with a tank and pumps. First, we calculate how long the most powerful sprinklers will work to water their lawn areas until the soil is saturated with moisture. To do this, first divide the consumption per minute by the 1st sprinkler by the area that it irrigates. We get how much water will fall on 1 m 2 of earth per minute. Then by this value we divide the rate of water consumption when irrigating lawns (10–20 l / m 2). This will be the duration of the sprinkler. For example, the flow rate of the sprinkler is 20 l/min, and the irrigation area is 200 m 2 . We calculate the time of its work for the irrigation rate of 10 l / m 2.

20/200 \u003d 0.1 l - the volume of water distributed per 1 m 2 per minute.

10/0.1 = 100 minutes – sprinkler operation time. Converting to hours:

100/60 = 1.67 hours, 60*0.67 = 40 minutes.

Working time 1 hour 40 minutes.

Then we calculate the duration of irrigation for other types of sprinklers. After that, we determine the required volume of the tank and the power of the pumps. Their parameters must meet the following criteria:

1. The pump at the supply (outlet from the tank) must satisfy in terms of pressure, and in terms of flow exceed the needs of simultaneously launched irrigation lines.
2. The volume of the container must be such that the tank filled to the top mark does not have time to empty to the lower level allowed for the operation of the feed pump before the end of irrigation through the most productive simultaneously connected irrigation lines. This condition is considered for the case with the loading pump on and replenishing the tank, or when the tank make-up will not work.
3. If it is planned that the pumping pump replenishes the tank during irrigation, then its power should be sufficient so that the tank does not empty before the end of irrigation.

Based on the selected parameters of the tank and pumps, we adjust the sprinkler connection scheme: if necessary, reduce the number of pipelines connected to one supply line and / or the number of pipelines with sprinklers simultaneously fed from the tank. We draw all this on the site plan. Water supply lines to sprinklers are best connected to one or more main pipelines, but can be laid directly to the point of water intake. It depends on the location of the lawns and the possibility of connecting pipes to them in one place or another on the site without damaging plantings, paths and other objects with their own hands. It is better to choose the places where the lines are connected to the main, where the fittings controlling the water supply will be installed, outside the reach of the sprinklers. Otherwise, manual control will have to be carried out under artificial rain.

Do-it-yourself installation of an automatic irrigation system on the site

According to the project drawn up by our own hands, we mark the site: with the help of pegs and a cord, we mark the places for installing sprinklers and laying pipelines. We install the necessary equipment for water supply. We lay out next to the place of subsequent installation main pipes with a diameter of 32–40 mm and for wiring lines of 25–32 mm, cut off with a small margin to the desired length. Both of them should be HDPE plastic, for a small area all can be 25 mm in diameter. Installing sprinklers. We dig trenches under the pipes, in which we then level the bottom. We lay and connect the pipes with our own hands with appropriate fittings: elbows, tees and adapters. We install a water filter at the outlet of the supply pump.

Where there will be manual control of the water supply (at the inlets to the main pipelines and outlets of the sprinkler lines), we install gate valves or valves, and in places with automatic control - electromagnetic programmable valves. If there is a lawn with drip irrigation, we mount a pressure regulator with our own hands at the beginning of the outlet branch for it.

The valves will automatically start watering according to the program entered into them with their own hands using a programmer or controller (computer) installed in the room and operating from a 220 V network. In the latter version, they can also be controlled in an emergency directly from the computer, but to them 2-wire control cables must be connected. The valves can be programmed for 4-6 waterings lasting from 1 minute to 40 hours. To prevent the program from being erased during a power outage, they have a 9 V battery, which is enough for the whole season. For complete irrigation automation, sensors are installed:

• soil moisture - on lawns;
• rain - out of reach of spray water sprinklers.

The first ones turn off watering when the soil is saturated with moisture to a predetermined level, and the second ones - if it starts to rain. The sensors can be connected directly to the valves or to a computer and only 1 rain sensor is required.

For most of us, rain is an annoying inconvenience, and we only wish it would end soon. However, plants, including grass, need rain. It may seem to us that he walked for an infinitely long time and probably wet the ground well. But the only way to be sure that this is really the case is to take a shovel and start digging. Perhaps you will soon see that only a few top centimeters of soil are wet, and this moisture will evaporate very quickly, and the earth will become dry again.

Why is water needed

Like us, plants cannot live without water. Every cell of a plant is filled with an aqueous solution that makes it strong and dense - and all plant systems, including those that carry nutrients, need water to work. Without water, plants are not even able to eat, because they do not “eat” their food, but “drink” from the soil.

You may remember from your biology class in school that water supplies nutrients dissolved in water to cells through a process called osmosis. At one end of the plant, the roots absorb water, and at the other end, the leaves and other above-ground parts lose it. If the roots cannot get enough water, the whole process slows down, and the cells begin to lose their density, which is visually expressed in wilting. Watering at this time usually cures the plant, although the tips of the leaves may never recover.

With a very prolonged lack of water, the cells lose contact with each other, and the plant reaches the point of "permanent wilt", after which it will not recover, no matter how much water is poured. One of the problems with grass is that its root system is shallow and therefore it begins to suffer from drought earlier than other plants. On the other hand, the grass has a huge amount of vitality, and it regenerates quickly.

Should I water the lawn?

Usually enough rain falls for the grass, but sometimes there are long periods of drought that are dangerous for the lawn. A good lawn loses about 20 liters of water per square meter of surface every week in summer due to evaporation alone. Therefore, if you live in an area with low rainfall, it makes sense to purchase a drought-resistant lawn mix.

Feeding grass roots are mainly concentrated in the top 10 centimeters of the soil. Naturally, in the heat, moisture evaporates from this layer in the first place. You can help the grass to take root deeper, where the moisture supply will last for a long time, if you pierce the turf every fall.

Nowadays, the need to conserve water is becoming more and more urgent, which means that only new lawns should be watered during dry periods.

How to water the lawn?

Water scarcity makes us think about ways to accumulate and conserve it. However, we have seen that lawns can recover even after a long drought. Therefore, they are usually given the opportunity to deal with water shortages themselves.

The only exceptions are new, recently broken lawns - they must not be allowed to dry out. It is best to water your lawn in the evening so that the water has time to soak in before it evaporates. And remember that a well-watered lawn and a lawn flooded with water are not the same thing at all.

Sprayers (sprinklers). Shopping malls have a wide range of nozzles, including fixed, rotating and oscillating (oscillating). Of course, using a sprayer is an extremely convenient form of watering, since you can leave it to work and leave, but it is far from the most effective: when watering with a sprayer, a significant part of the water is wasted (especially on a windy day), and it is mainly the topsoil that is moistened. As a result, the roots of the grass stop growing deeper, which will not benefit her during the next dry period, and besides, the water from the upper layer evaporates too quickly.

garden hoses- the most versatile tool, and if you just lay the hose on the lawn, turning on the "fine stream" mode on the nozzle, it will water the lawn better than a spray installation; just every half an hour it will have to be shifted to a new place. With this method, you do not need to water the lawn every day - the soil will get wet thoroughly and for a long time. Accordingly, the roots of the grass will tend to go down, which will make your lawn more drought-resistant. Remember that 2.5 centimeters of water on the surface of the earth will seep to a depth of 10 centimeters if they are not prevented by evaporation.

perforated hoses they look and act about the same as ordinary ones, but they are covered with small holes over the entire surface and are usually made of hard black material. Their advantage is that without any effort on your part, they water a large area and to a considerable depth. Keep in mind that they need to be cleaned periodically as the holes become clogged.

garden watering cans. You may already have them, but watering a large lawn with a watering can is a job that requires extraordinary dedication. However, they are very suitable for watering small, driest areas.

There are several ways to help your lawn during the dry season without needing to water:

Feed your lawn and remove weeds regularly to keep the grass growing and get rid of excess water consumers.

Let the grass grow taller than usual so it will shade its own roots, preventing water from evaporating.

Leave the grass cut when cutting on the lawn - it will mulch the soil and retain moisture in it. This will help for a few weeks, but don't do it all the time.

A lawn that has suffered from lack of water becomes yellow and mottled. Most likely, the grass will recover after the first rains, but during the drought period, it can become an easy prey for weeds and diseases.

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Then (preferably on the same day) sprinkle the earth where the lowland is, sow the seeds (here the remaining kilogram will come in handy!) In the lowland and where there are bald spots, cover with earth from above and roll. Thus, we mended the lawn. The next day, feed the lawn with Kemira full mineral fertilizer (preferably Finnish-made) at the rate of 1.5 kg per 1 weave, then mulch with a layer of 1-1.5 cm with a mixture of 50% peat + 50% sand and roll it. grass seeds​Seed consumption during planting should be approximately 35 g / m 2. For a more uniform sowing of seeds, a seeder is used, which can later be used to apply fertilizer to the soil. The size of the seed holes is determined by the seed variety. The seeder during operation must move in such a way that the old and new seed strips intersect to avoid voids between them.​

Water the crops in the evening, with soft sprinkling, so that the seeds do not wash out, abundantly, so that moisture penetrates the ground to a depth of 10 cm, but do not allow the formation of puddles and prolonged stagnation of water. In dry, hot weather, hopes of rain can turn into death of seeds if you leave crops without watering for several days. At the same time, the seeds will swell and hatch, and then dry up before they germinate.

Second class - landscape gardening lawns.

A leveled, weed-free area must be lightly tamped. This is necessary to make it easier for sprouted lawn roots to absorb moisture and nutrients from the soil.

If the soil, watering and climatic conditions do not suit the plant, it will not grow on your lawn, no matter how much you would like it.

At the same time, the external signs of the plants that make up the lawn mixture should be selected in such a way as to obtain a sufficiently uniform, even and beautiful coating. Here it is necessary to take into account the growth rate, and the width of the leaves, and the height of the plants, and the color of the foliage. In addition, of course, all selected plants must correspond to the soil-climatic zone of cultivation.​

But planting a lawn in front of the house is not enough, you need to know not only how to properly grow a lawn, but also how to care for it.

To give the lawn a visual volume, flower arrangements will help, which look much more interesting under a slight slope. In addition, during rains and irrigation, the water will drain naturally, without lingering and without soaking the root system of the grass.​

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My expression “the lawn will dry up” should be understood as it is ventilated from above, and the earth is moist inside. The first haircut in the spring is very important, after mowing the lawn, be sure to roll it up!​ , you need to find out what kind of soil is in that part of the garden where we will arrange the lawn. This will allow you to determine what and how much to add to it so that the lawn grows well. And only then should you choose the seeds.

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Shoots appear on the 7-21st day after sowing, depending on weather conditions. On average, it takes 2 weeks for seeds to germinate. They must be decorative, perennial, shade-tolerant, resistant to mechanical damage, and also drought-resistant under certain conditions. In this case, grasses must be selected with a strong turf and various types of tillering. Scatter the seeds over the surface of the site. This can be done manually or with a mechanical seeder. With manual sowing, it is important to try to evenly distribute the seeds. Seed consumption should not be less than indicated on the package. Otherwise, you will have to wait a long time for thick grass.

Now many companies offer a choice of any seeds: under different names and with different compositions. There are sets of seeds where wild flowers, small or large, will grow along with green grass on the lawn. Lawns with such grass do not need mowing, all their beauty is in meadow greenery and constant flowering of grasses.

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Popular lawn grasses that are part of most herbal mixtures: meadow bluegrass, thin bent (shooting), various fescue (sheep, red, cane), perennial ryegrass. They are resistant to adverse climatic conditions, including high winter hardiness; well resist diseases and pests; undemanding, but at the same time they grow quickly and develop well.

You need to feed the lawn twice a year: in spring and autumn. It requires the use of both synthetic and organic fertilizers. Also, in no case is it recommended to mix these types of fertilizer.

How to grow a beautiful lawn? Definitely, any of them will be beautiful, but everything else must meet your requirements. Will the lawn serve a purely decorative function or are you planning to use it as a place to relax.​

Choosing and preparing a site for growing a lawn

In our retail, you have to select the lawn mixture with your personal presence, carefully reading the composition of the grass on the package, since under the guise of "Gnome" or "Park", each manufacturer packs its own composition of seeds. A more accurate match with the name of the lawns and quality are offered by English and Dutch farmers, packages of which can be purchased at hypermarkets and garden centers. About that

The whole season the lawn is necessary

​It would be nice to get some detailed book on this subject - for example, "All About the Lawn" by Dr. Hession, it will come in handy in the future.

At the same time, fertilizers must be applied to the soil along with the seeds. They must contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. In order for the sowing of seeds to be uniform, it is recommended to sow half of the seeds along and the other half across the lawn.​

Choosing the type of lawn

In the middle of the 20th century, there was a revolution in the science of lawns: special varieties of grasses were bred, highly effective pesticides were created to control pests and pathogens, complex mineral fertilizers began to be used for lawn grass stands, and the main processes in caring for herbs were mechanized.

Third class - meadow lawns

Lawn sowing.

Drainage construction

The most common lawn grass in Russia is creeping bent grass. This is a grass with long shoots up to half a meter, which spread along the ground. The plant grows quickly with timely watering, and recovers when playing on the lawn, making it a favorite grass for children's playgrounds. To quickly create a lawn, rooted shoots are used, which in two months will create a carpet of greenery on which children can play. The shoots of this lawn grass are planted in the spring at a distance of 10 cm from each other. The lawn needs frequent watering.

The sowing itself includes several sequential operations.

How to grow a lawn without weeds? If the grass covers the area with a dense layer, then the weeds simply will not break through. You can also use herbicides:

1. If the main purpose of the clearing is beauty, then the parterre lawn is an excellent choice. This type of coverage is characterized by a uniform surface of the grass carpet, low herbage and uniform coloring along the entire perimeter of the area. The parterre lawn is not intended for children's games and requires perfect leveling of the surface.​
2. how to plant a lawn
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4. ​Before you buy seeds, find out when they were grown (the package should be stamped with the date). For sowing, you need to buy 6 kg of seeds per hundred square meters: 5 kg for sowing and 1 kg for lawn repairs for the next year. Between the time of growing seeds and their sowing should be no more than two years! Do not open the package out of curiosity before sowing, because. Seed germination depends on humidity, and it, in turn, on the tightness of the package.

Sowing seeds, how to do it right

• At the end of the lawn, seeds and fertilizers must be carefully planted into the soil. With light soil, to improve the contact of seeds and soil, it can simply be lightly rolled. Ideally, the seeds should be deepened into the ground at a distance of about 2 mm.​
• ​To content​
• . They are created by improving the existing herbage, surface treatment of the turf and overseeding the appropriate grass mixtures.​
• After sowing, it is necessary to compact the soil with seeds. You can do this with the help of a roller. You can also use a regular board and your own weight for this purpose.​

There are other lawn grasses.

Lawn planting technology

Used before spring lawn germination (once a year);

will be discussed today.

. I especially want to dwell on two plants - clover and daisy. Clover and garden lawn are incompatible things. You will not succeed in arranging a cheerful piece of pink clover on the playground and a garden and park lawn in front of the house on the same site, because. clover "dusts" and will soon appear as an uninvited guest in front of your house. If a joyful white-pink daisy appears on the lawn, immediately grab a shovel and dig it up by the roots, otherwise this “joy” will quickly go all over the lawn. I do not like all kinds of herbicides and do not use them.

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Lawn soil requires constant watering, especially for the first shoots to appear. Watering is done every day for about 10 minutes. To make it even, special nozzles are used. From the moment the seeds are planted to the moment the first shoots appear, it takes from one to three weeks. High quality seeds usually take longer to germinate.​

In the first year, do not give the lawn a big load, try to walk on it as little as possible. Try to protect it from pets, especially dogs.​

Lawns have been known for over 3,000 years. We find the first mention of grass-sowing in the Bible - both in the old and in the new Testament. In Persia, so-called grass carpets were created in gardens before the new era. Hundreds of years before the new era, one of the first lawns was created in the Chinese imperial park Cheu.

Lawn Care Rules

The last stage of planting is abundant watering. Before the grass sprouts, the plot must be watered as the earth dries.

For the first two years, meadow bluegrass needs careful care, then it itself begins to grow actively, crowding out weeds.

It is not difficult, but it requires precision and accuracy. To get started, get your supplies ready. You will need two boards, or wide (hunting) skis - this way you will avoid marks on the ground. To achieve an even distribution of seeds, use a special seeder if possible. You will also need a manual roller, with which the seeds are pressed into the soil, and irrigation devices.

• Applied when weeds have already sprouted (suitable for getting rid of dandelion, chickweed, couch grass, fescue and bluegrass).
• If we talk about how to grow a lawn that would serve for many years, then you can’t do without the construction of a drainage system.

Landing a lawn requires preliminary preparation, consisting of several works. First of all, they prepare the site for sowing in advance - this should be done in the fall. The allotted plot of land should be dug up without breaking the breasts and left for the winter so that the soil is more crumbly and saturated with moisture (see the article “Autumn digging of the soil”). If there was no opportunity to prepare the soil in advance, then after digging it is necessary to wait a few days for the soil to settle, helping it to reach the desired consistency with daily watering.

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We leveled, prepared the soil, now it needs to be compacted - either with the back of a rake (if the area is small), or with a 100 kg roller. Then water and leave for 3-4 weeks. All this time, periodically watering the ground, we correct irregularities (we pour a mixture of earth and sand into the pits), weeds that appear in the field and select the time for planting the lawn.

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• Planting the lawn in parts or sectors is not worth it. After seed germination, a gap is formed at the junction of sectors, which will not overgrow for a very long time. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare and plant the entire site at once.
• Bluegrass meadow is a capricious grass that requires careful lawn care in the first two years: weeding and watering is necessary. But then she herself begins to actively grow and crowd out all the weeds. Prefers light sandy loam and loose loam. This grass is best sown in August on a prepared lawn, thoroughly cleaned of roots.

To determine the consumption of seeds, a number of conditions should be taken into account. Firstly, this is the season: when planting seeds in the autumn, they take half as much as when planting in the spring. This allows you to achieve the formation of larger and stronger plants, better prepared for the winter cold. Secondly, about a pound of seeds per hundred square meters will be required in the future for overseeding; this stock needs to be taken care of right away. Grass seeds remain viable for a long time, and to get a really beautiful lawn, you will need more than one year. Seeding rates, therefore, can vary significantly: from 25 to 50 g of seeds per square meter of future lawn area.​

You need to mow the grass as often as possible and only with well-sharpened blades. Frequent mowing will make the grass thicker, which will prevent weeds from germinating.​

After the site is selected, it is necessary to start building drainage. This stage is especially important if the site is located in low places with high humidity. Of course, a drainage cushion is not a mandatory component, but it will not be superfluous.​

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The second stage of preparation is loosening the soil layer with the simultaneous introduction of nutrition, designed for the next 3 years of lawn life. The site is plowed to a depth of no more than 40 cm and the loosened soil is fertilized with vegetable compost mixed with azophos or superphosphate with a total layer of 15 cm. The composition of the compost is made from long-decomposing organic matter, mixing animal waste with straw, branches, bark, wood chips and newsprint .​ top dressing The day for planting should be calm, without rain, and the ground should be moist inside and weathered at the top so that it does not stick to the legs and the rink. It is best to prepare the lawn area in the fall and sow in the spring. Later on August 20-25, it is undesirable to plant a lawn, since in autumn the grass grows 3-4 times slower. Selected landing day

When to sow the lawn

The entire period of grass growth, the lawn is carefully looked after - watered, mowed, fertilized.

not only maintains its appearance, but is also an excellent weed control agent. Most of them do not tolerate haircuts, and after two or three such procedures, you will say goodbye to them forever. Mowing also helps plants to grow on the surface of the soil, forming additional shoots, creating a dense sod, growing with rhizomes.

First of all, garbage is carefully removed from the site (stones, bricks, slabs, boards and chips, foil, plastic bottles, bags, film). Never bury rubbish in the ground. This will create unfavorable conditions for the growth and development of grasses. Plants in the places of such burial grounds will lag behind in growth, overwinter poorly, get sick.

What to sow

As practice shows, tamping seeds and earth, as described above, does not give good enough results. Since some of the seeds manage to be eaten by birds, and some simply do not sprout. To avoid this, sprinkle the seeds with earth. Meadow fescue is a grass with coarse leaves and a short stem. Does not twitch very well, forms bunches of greenery. With 100% use of this grass, the lawn is obtained with bald spots. He likes rich loams. Before planting, mineral fertilizers with a high nitrogen content can be added to the soil. For a hundred square meters, you will need up to one and a half kilograms of fertilizer. It is also good to prepare peat or humus in advance for use as a mulching material; its quantity is determined in such a way that the lawn area is covered with a layer of mulch about 0.5 cm thick.

How short should the lawn be cut? This will depend on the type of grass that the clearing is planted with. The main rule is to cut off no more than 1/3 of the total height. If the grass has overgrown, then it is necessary to mow and bring its height to the desired level in two or three steps. Never mow a wet lawn.​

The drainage structure looks like this:

The next step is to level the area with a rake, remove weeds, debris and stones. With poor-quality performance of these works, lawn care will be difficult, the likely occurrence of "bald patches" and visible differences in the height of the green mass.​

How to sow a lawn

​should be applied systematically due to their rapid consumption by the root system of grasses. From spring and in the first half of summer - 1 time in 2-3 weeks Kemir of Finnish production. From the second half of summer, feed twice with chlorine-free phosphorus-potassium fertilizer. Last top dressing on August 10-15 with Kemira. You can only feed when the ground is wet! lunar calendar So, after the lawn grass has risen, it needs care. It consists of watering, cutting and fertilizing. If you follow the rules for lawn care, it will be magnificent and will become the hallmark of the owner of the suburban area.

It should also be taken into account that each mowing is a big stress for plants. It is easier for them to recover if no more than 1/3 of the stem is cut at a time, no matter how high it is.

The soil for the lawn should be sufficiently moisture-absorbing so that the plants do not experience a lack of moisture. At the same time, water should not accumulate on it, as this leads to the loss of plants.

A proven planting method that gives excellent results, but is more time consuming is the following:

Red fescue forms a dense turf only in the second year, but does not require watering, tolerates drought and shading. Loves fertile light soils.

​If you are sowing by hand, divide the seeds into two equal parts and sow in two steps, in two mutually perpendicular directions. Slightly thicker sow the grass along the edge of the site and along the paths. Seeds must first be mixed with sand or soil; 1 - 3 parts of sand are taken for one part of the seeds.

After mowing, there is no need to remove the cut grass. These particles are easily absorbed by the soil, which will only benefit the lawn.​

The top layer of soil is removed from the cleared site to a depth of 40 ... 45 cm.

After completing the preparation, you can start sowing the lawn. They choose a lawn in accordance with the weather conditions of their region, as well as the purpose of the future lawn - for games, recreation, a lawn, a simple carpet for greenery, a flower meadow, or in the English manner.

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Watering. Firstly, after each haircut, and secondly, as needed, depending on the weather. You must remember that the earth must be moist so that the roots do not dry out.

First condition: preparatory work

gardener. What do you need to have for this day? Seeds, seeder, rakes, buckets, roller, lutrasil, staples, shovels, wheelbarrows, sifted garden soil. Decide in advance which direction you will be planting. Mix the seeds well in the bag and do this periodically, pour into the planter (the planter must be pre-adjusted) and sow a strip with a width slightly larger than the width of the roller. In a small area, the lawn can be sown by hand with the "sower's movement". Lightly fill this strip with prepared earth with a layer of approximately 1.5-1 cm and roll it with a roller. Approximately a meter of lawn along the paths and the blind area should be sown 2 times thicker: these places, firstly, are trampled down the most, and in winter, snow is dumped here. Close the sown area with lutrasil and pin it with studs 15-20 cm long. Overlap the lutrasil and fix it with studs after 1-1.5 m. Less often it is bad - the wind will raise the shelter. What is it for? Firstly, so that the birds do not peck at the seeds, secondly, so that heavy rain does not knock out and wash them away (after all, it is very important that they are evenly distributed over the surface!), Thirdly, so that pets cannot harm the future lawn . After everything is closed, pour water from above through sprayers. You can’t water the lawn with chlorinated water!

The first rule is to prepare the site. By applying the right fertilizers and digging the site to the appropriate depth - approximately 20 cm, soil fertility can be achieved.

The first mowing is usually carried out when the soil and grass are dry and the latter reach a height of 10 cm. For the first time, the very tips of the grass are cut, no more than 1 cm. Lawn mower knives must be sharp. During subsequent haircuts, the knives are gradually lowered lower and lower.​

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After the ground on the site has been prepared, about 1 cm of soil should be removed and poured into an area where grass is not planted.

The second condition: watering, in which your lawn will be thick and beautiful

Perennial ryegrass - a temporary lawn for one year. This is a moisture-loving plant that freezes during cold winters. Requires shelter for the winter. Does not tolerate even spring frosts. Open it after the threat of frost has completely passed. The best soil for planting it is well-drained loam. The plant quickly sprouts and in two weeks completely covers the lawn with young shoots. Requires regular fertilizing with complex fertilizers and watering. In the second year, grass reseeding is necessary. Seed consumption - 14-15 g per 1 sq. m.​

The weather for landing must be calm. Having distributed the seeds over the surface of the soil, they are shallowly covered with a rake, and then the entire territory is evenly rolled with a roller, increasing the area of ​​​​contact of the seeds with the ground. This procedure allows you to accelerate the emergence of seedlings by 2 to 4 days and stimulates the growth of herbs.​

Third condition: land without weeds

The main mistake is too frequent watering. This causes the grass to grow too actively, since the root system remains almost at the surface of the soil. That is why artificially created clearings are watered rarely, but always plentifully.

A layer of broken brick, crushed stone or gravel is laid out at the bottom.

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Fourth condition: planting high-quality and properly selected seeds for the area

We water the lawn depending on the weather and the soil: if it’s hot, then every day; if sandy soil - 2 times a day. It is necessary to water either before 10 o'clock in the morning, or after 18 o'clock, it is better not to water during the day - more harm than good. The soil should be moist to a depth of 8-10 cm, and watering must be uniform. (Put the jar where you water - it should contain 10 cm of water).​

England is traditionally considered the birthplace of lawns. But there is a completely different climate. Therefore, it is best to use domestic seeds of different varieties. This must be done so that they seem to insure each other. If one variety falls out of the herbage, the other will gain strength. The most common mixtures are meadow and red fescue, perennial ryegrass, common bluegrass and meadow grass, and others. By applying different ratios of grasses in mixtures, it is possible to obtain lawns of various types. For example, a sports lawn is resistant to trampling, the front one has beautiful emerald dense grass.

The density of the grass, its resistance to trampling largely depends on the root system of plants. The more often we mow the lawn and the more we walk on it, the worse the grasses take root, the mass of the roots decreases. To save and restore the root system, give the grass rest periods. This is possible if the ground part grows to a height of 12–15 cm.

Mandatory in those areas where water stagnates after snowmelt, rain, watering. Arrange it as follows.

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After that, the site is mulched with humus or peat, protecting seedlings from rapid evaporation of moisture and exposure to ultraviolet rays. If the soil on the site is heavy, sand is added to the mulch mixture. It is important that the material used for mulching does not contain weed seeds.​

To determine that the lawn needs watering, you can by the following signs:

The next layer is sand (at least 10 cm). It must be carefully tamped.

To properly plant a lawn, you need to know how much seed you need to take on a certain area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe site. To calculate the mass of seeds sufficient for sowing a flat area, they are guided by the following data: per sq. meter is used 25 gr. seed material. For sowing slopes, you need to use a denser sowing.​

We have already talked about the first and second haircuts. The third and subsequent haircuts - we cut 1/3 of the height of the lawn. It should grow no higher than 9-10 cm, i.e. after mowing, the height of the lawn should be 6 cm.​

Fifth condition: compliance with sowing technology

The most dangerous time for the lawn is the fifth or seventh day after sowing: the seeds were dry, they were watered - they absorbed moisture, swollen, and if there is no watering at this time, they will dry out.

The entire season, the lawn must be carefully looked after: mowed, watered and fertilized.

Next time we will tell you how to protect the lawn in the country from diseases.

Sixth condition: timely top dressing

Remove the fertile layer. A layer of gravel (10–15 cm) is laid on the infertile subsoil and compacted. Then a layer of sand (10 cm) is poured and also compacted. Fertile soil (10–15 cm) is sprinkled on top, rolling it with a roller weighing at least 100 kg. The skating rink can be replaced with a barrel by pouring water into it.​

On top of the planted seeds, previously removed soil should be poured. Then carefully tamp it down.

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The lawn should be sown in the spring when positive daytime temperatures set in.

Preparing the soil for planting a lawn

One of the most important and crucial stages is watering. Watering is carried out by soft sprinkling, achieving a uniform distribution of moisture in the soil to a depth of at least 10 centimeters. Make sure that water does not stagnate on the surface of the site.​

If you stick a screwdriver into the ground, it will enter with little resistance;

• Next, a layer of fertile soil is laid on a layer of sand. The minimum thickness is 15 cm. If it is planned to break the ground lawn, then the layer of earth should reach 30 cm.
• You need to sow manually, trying to scatter the seeds evenly throughout the plot.

Seedlings may appear on the fifth - seventh day. When you see friendly shoots, lutrasil can be carefully removed. Before the first

This is the golden rule of lawn care. Top dressing is best done with liquid fertilizers, such as mullein. The lawn needs not only to be fed, but also to ensure its breathing, that is, “comb out” the old grass with a rake and aerate the soil by piercing it with a pitchfork. These two operations are combined in a lawn mower equipped with a perforator-aerator.​

Modern landscape design is impossible without a beautiful lawn in the form of a beautiful emerald carpet. It serves as a magnificent backdrop for flowerbeds and shrubs, harmoniously uniting the zones of the site into a single whole.​

On heavy clay soils, before digging, from 10 to 15 kg / m2 of sand is added and, while digging, mix it with the soil. On light sandy soils add 4–5 kg/m2 of peat.

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This approach will protect the seeds from birds and enable them all to sprout well.

Lawn Planting Procedure

Before planting, the seeds are soaked for a day in warm water, adding potassium permanganate and means to stimulate seed growth. A day later, the seeds are thrown into gauze, the water is decanted to the state of flowability of the seeds, and as soon as they begin to crumble, they begin planting. It is necessary to sow the lawn in the spring, when positive daytime temperatures come, from about April 10 to 15. During sowing, they check the soil for moisture by squeezing a lump of earth in their hands. If the soil sticks together, then the earth is sufficiently moistened and the seeds thrown into the ground will not dry out. We plant grass in squares, m by m, while marking with pegs. Seeds are sown arbitrarily, first running a hand along the beds, then across. Seeds can be sprinkled with sand, black earth, but you can leave it like that, you just need to pat with a shovel and press them into the ground. You can use a special roller, but if it is not there, then slamming with a shovel also presses the grass seeds quite tightly to the soil.

Water the lawn in the evening; until germination, this procedure must be performed daily. If you sow the lawn in the summer, in dry and hot weather, you will have to water twice a day. Autumn sowing can save you this hassle: frequent rains will ensure a sufficient level of soil moisture. On average, lawn grass seeds germinate within two weeks, but this period can be either shortened or extended, depending on the selected grass varieties, temperature conditions and humidity.​

The grass begins to take on a bluish tint;

Prepare a couple of wide boards on which you will walk around the site so as not to leave marks;

The area sown with lawn is treated with a rake, leveling the entire landing, after which the soil is compacted with a special roller. If there is no such tool, you can use ordinary heavy wide boards, which are alternately laid on the surface of the site, trampling them with your feet.

We follow the same rules.

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A well-groomed lawn adorns any suburban area.

• The lawn on the site is beautiful and modern. The lawn looks great between flower beds and other plantings, harmoniously zoning the space of the site.​
• Digging the soil
• Approximately two weeks after planting, the first shoots will appear, and in a month there will be a young lawn.

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What to do after the shoot of the grass?

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If you walk on the lawn, the grass no longer rises back.

Seeder if available;

Important in the initial cultivation of the lawn is its artificial watering: deep drying is unacceptable and vice versa - the formation of puddles. A sprayer with a fine spread of water will be a suitable means of supplying moisture, if larger nozzles are used, this will wash out the seed. Not

How often to water the lawn?

The height of seedlings should be no higher than 10 cm. If weeds appear, then they must be weeded before cutting. It is necessary to weed while standing on plywood and very carefully so as not to damage the young tender shoots. At the first haircut, we cut off only 1.5-2 cm of seedling height, i.e. cut off the tops in order to stop growth.

Let's consider in detail how to plant, grow and then properly care for the lawn in your summer cottage. The article talks about the types of lawns as well as planting techniques and year-round lawn care. All existing types of lawns are basically divided into two groups: sown or natural.

Planting a lawn is an important step in arranging the interior of a suburban area.

- one of the most necessary and difficult activities in preparation for sowing. The time for digging the site is dictated by the weather: the soil should be slightly moist, not dry. During digging, it is necessary to carefully select and remove stones, roots of trees and shrubs, perennial weeds from the site, break up clods of earth.

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Shoots of lawn grass.

You have to take care of the lawn. Before the appearance of the first shoots, the soil should not be allowed to dry out. When a lump of earth from the lawn crumbles and does not form into a lump, the lawn should be watered abundantly. The first feeding of the grass is carried out after the first mowing of the lawn. With an excess of fertilizer, the grass can burn. Well-fertilized grass is dark green in color. With a lack of nutrients, the grass will be light green.

a mixture of earth from peat, sand and sod land; any complex fertilizer; lawn grass seeds at the rate of 12 g per 1 sq. m.​

For watering, you can use a regular sprinkler. hand roller to press the seeds into the soil;

It is recommended to water the lawn during the day, as moisture does not linger in the soil for a long time. The optimal watering time is up to 10 o'clock and in the evening. In the first half of summer, we cut to a height of 5 cm, and in the second - to a height of 4 cm. We reached the original height ...

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Usually the lawn is square or rectangular in shape, however, it can be round or any irregular shape.

The earth is compacted when it is slightly weathered and dries after digging. Using a long (2-3 m) flat board, tying a rope along its edges and dragging it around the site, check whether its surface is sufficiently leveled. Stomp on the site, walk along it in small steps. When trampling down, do not let go of the rake: level the ground, collect stones, roots, debris. In addition, it is advisable to walk on the ground with an ice rink.

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However, along with lawn grass, weeds will also sprout. Weeds must be removed. A month after planting, the earth is still soft and loose, so the weeds are well removed along with the root.

Be sure to weed the lawn, preventing weed seeds from ripening. For example, quinoa retains its germination capacity for a long time. She will sprout on the lawn for a long time if she is allowed to sow the lawn. The main thing when creating a lawn is the correct ratio of soil. Never water your lawn at night. Grass should never go wet into the night. Before turning on watering, make sure that the grass has time to dry before the evening. Excess moisture contributes to the development of various diseases.

Hose and a special spray nozzle for watering.

To achieve a uniform carpeting of the lawn, it must be cut in a timely manner. If mowing is done for the first time, it is better to use a scythe, this minimizes the uprooting of green plant mass with roots.​

And now - a few words about natural (it is also called "wild") lawn. This is the lawn that grows in the garden “by itself”, is cut every week from year to year, winters well. And if you also look after, you will get a green hassle-free carpet. This is the lawn in my area. Do not forget that ​ ​You can not mow on wet ground (more plants are pulled out)!

- beautiful, emerald green, thick, but laborious in execution and winters worse. The main types of decorative lawns are parterre, landscape gardening and meadow.​

Before planting a lawn, you need to determine its purpose and configuration. This is influenced by the routes along which people are supposed to move around the garden. Usually the shape of the lawn is rectangular or square. But its correct shape can sometimes look a bit boring, so an irregularly shaped lawn will look very original. It should not be forgotten that a too complex lawn shape with sharp corners and all kinds of bends requires more careful, sometimes very difficult care.

After digging, compacting and leveling, it is recommended to keep the area under fallow and for several (4–6 or more) weeks to destroy weeds, dormant seeds or pieces of rhizomes that will gradually germinate. To stimulate the germination of weeds, the site is watered immediately after leveling. These procedures take a lot of time, but very effectively clear the site of weeds.

After a while, the lawn grass will grow and will try to produce seeds. In the first year of lawn growth, it is not advisable to allow insemination. It is important that the grass is well rooted, so you should mow it.

Lawn grasses, lawn planting and irrigation

A green dense lawn will decorate your summer cottage. A dacha plot planted with lawn grass can be a vacation spot for the whole family. In addition, the lawn will protect the ground and retain moisture in it. Planting and caring for a lawn in the country is not at all difficult. If you follow the landing rules, then in a month there will be a result.

To create a green lawn in the country, you need to determine the place. Before starting land work in the country, you need to make a curb of stone, brick or concrete with your own hands. This will make it possible to keep the soil of the lawn from being washed away during floods and heavy rains. You also need to take care of drainage by making a slight slope to drain excess water from the lawn.

Lawns should be watered either early in the morning or early in the evening. Midday watering will not bring any benefit, since the water will evaporate very quickly and will not have time to reach the root system. Seed consumption is determined by a number of conditions:

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​Parterre​

It is necessary to remember about the illumination of the lawn. After all, each site, in accordance with the rules for planting lawn grass, should be in the sun for at least some time.

In Europe, lawns appeared after the Crusades. Since the 16th century, they began to arrange lawns for various games. First in the Netherlands - for golf. Then this game (and for her, the lawn!) spread widely in Scotland and England, and later in the USA. At the end of the 19th century, sports lawns appeared in Russia. The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin Budding in 1830 in Great Britain. English landowners can also be considered the pioneers of lawn laying: it was in the first half of the 19th century that the types of grasses that gave the best results when sown were selected.

You can mow the grass with a trimmer or lawn mower. The trimmer is useful for small areas. For large areas, it is better to use a lawn mower. The lawn mower has the advantages it has a grass collector (you don’t have to collect the cut grass), unlike the trimmer, the lawn mower cuts evenly.​

There are two problems in preparing the soil for a lawn: leveling the site and removing weeds.

Lawn Care: Mowing

Subject to the entire lawn planting technology and subject to timely watering, the grass will delight with its greenery and require the first haircut two months after sowing. The main thing that a beautiful do-it-yourself lawn needs is the right soil ratio.​

When the preparation of the site for the future lawn is completed, it is time to sow. And here it is necessary to find answers to three main questions: when to sow? What to sow? How to sow? In order for the result of painstaking work to create a green lawn to please the eye, it is important not to miss a single essential detail. For autumn, fewer seeds will be required than in spring (about two times). In this case, the planted plants have time to form a strong root system and winter well.

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Water the lawn immediately after mowing!

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Making a lawn requires the presence of soil of appropriate quality. To do this, you first need to clear the area where the lawn grass will be planted. In order not to take moisture from the lawn, it is necessary to uproot weeds and tree shoots and remove all debris.

The main lawn care is watering. Lawn grass loves moisture. Sprinklers are used to water the lawn. Any type will do. It is important that the area of ​​watering corresponds to the area of ​​the lawn.​

Purpose and form

There are two ways to level the area:

For sowing any seeds, a mixture of sand, soddy soil and peat in equal quantities is suitable. Instead of peat, you can take black soil, leaf humus or rotted manure. Soddy land must be sorted out and cleaned of all kinds of roots. After removing the sod from the place of land collection, relatively clean soil remains. All these components should be mixed and laid on the prepared area fenced with a curb in an even layer of 15-20 cm. The laid ground should be thoroughly spilled with water.

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Be sure to leave a margin of about 0.5 kilograms. This stock will be needed later, for additional grass overseeding.​

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Preliminary construction work

First there was a field of dandelions. They began to mow every week, and the composition of the grass began to change - weeds that do not like weekly cutting began to disappear, and cereal grasses began to grow. The dandelions did not completely disappear, so the rest had to be dug up. Having made a soil analysis, we carried out liming before winter.

The second haircut is carried out in compliance with the same rules: lawn height 10 cm, cutting 1.5-2 cm, i.e. we pinch so that the root system develops in the first year. Every 2-3 weeks it is recommended to apply mineral fertilizers throughout the growing season. It is advisable to use special fertilizers for lawns.​

It is created at the main nodes of the composition, in front of the facade of the building, near fountains, ponds, monuments. Grasses should be low-growing, give a dense herbage, a bright green color. For these purposes, red fescue, common bent grass, meadow bluegrass (100% of only one species) are used. A mono-lawn in this case is the best. If you use a mixture, then you need to trust the company whose seeds you buy. It is undesirable to make the mixture yourself, since the seeds are selected according to many parameters, including the color of the grass. You can’t walk on the parterre lawn.

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How to make the land fertile?

For sowing, as a rule, mixtures of herbs are used, and not individual species. A mixture of several (3-5) types of grass adapts and survives on the site more easily under various weather conditions than one type of lawn grass.​

The lawn should be watered regularly. It is not permissible to leave the lawn without watering for a long time. In the hot months, watering is necessary 2-3 times a week. If the weather is cool, then 1 time per week is enough.

Tear down the mounds and fill in the holes, then dig the site. This method is good if you have free land, or the land torn from the mounds is enough to fill in the holes.

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Requires thorough knowledge and adherence to technology.

The use of dressings

Before planting, mineral fertilizers must be applied to the soil. Make sure they contain a high percentage of nitrogen. Consumption: per hundred square meters - 1.5 kilograms of fertilizer.​

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​The biggest work was leveling the surface - where there were small irregularities, they covered them with earth mixed with sand (see Fig. 3). Where there were large irregularities (see Fig. 4), we cut the sod into squares, pulled it out, put it in the shade, leveled the ground and returned the sod to its place. Then they tamped and watered properly.

The last mowing of the young lawn is September 10-15, the old one is September 15-20. But if in autumn the weather is warm for a long time and the lawn continues to grow, then you can mow later. In a dry autumn, at least once the lawn must be shed well.

Lawn grass care

Garden lawn

The soil under the lawn is leveled, all holes and bumps are removed.

The composition of the mixtures usually includes the following types of herbs: fescue (red, sheep, reed), bent grass (thin, or shoot-bearing), meadow bluegrass, perennial ryegrass. They are unpretentious, have a low growth rate, high winter hardiness and drought resistance, actively resist pathogens, pests and weeds.

We have covered everything you need to know about the lawn, as well as possible planting methods and their features. Planting a lawn in the country with your own hands is within the power of everyone. However, in order for the lawn to always please the eye, it must be regularly looked after.

First, dig the site, and then dismantle it with a rake, thereby leveling the site. This is a rather laborious, but universal way. Strong watering of the lawn will compact the soil. Just do not forget to level the entire area with a rake with long teeth before this. This will help, in case of imperfections in the relief, to eliminate all irregularities and, by adjusting the thickness of the soil, make a slight slope towards the flow of water during irrigation and heavy rains.

Lawn grasses can be sown at almost any time: spring, autumn, and summer sowing is practiced; sometimes the lawn is sown even before the snow melts, right on the ice crust. Therefore, the answer to this question must be found individually; it depends on various factors, including: climatic conditions; type of soil on the site and its condition; the ability to provide sufficient watering.​

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The area after planting must be mulched. To do this, you can use either peat or humus. The soil should be covered with a layer of about 0.5 cm.​

I welcome you friends on the site advice to gardeners. Many summer residents and just owners of private houses are interested in how to grow a lawn with their own hands. The same should be done if you have a reverse slope (remember, the lawn slope should be from the house!). After two weeks, the lawn must be fed (and before that it must be watered).

​Before going into winter (before the last haircut of this season) - comb the lawn, cut the turf, spend. The grass should have a beautiful bright color. These should be shade-tolerant perennial grasses, resistant to trampling, with a well-developed root system. Mixtures of herbs are used for such a lawn: bluegrass (common and forest), fescue (sheep, oriental, bearded), ryegrass (multicolor and annual), wheatgrass (Siberian and comb-shaped) are added to those listed above. Next, the territory of the future lawn needs to be leveled and all depressions and bumps removed. In accordance with the rules for planting a lawn, the site for it should not be perfectly flat. Landscape designers recommend a slight slope towards the center of the lawn in order to allow excess water to run off and prevent it from becoming stagnant. To eliminate excess moisture, the rules for arranging a lawn require the installation of a drainage system.​

How many seeds are needed for sowing? However, as with most plants in the country, the basis of care is regular watering. If you do not live in the country permanently, then this becomes a big problem. You can solve it by making an autonomous irrigation system based on a programmable irrigation timer.​

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The preparatory stage of creating a lawn

When sowing in autumn, it is important that at least one and a half months remain until the first frost. Optimal weather conditions - cloudy warm weather, regular moderate rainfall. In the middle lane, this is usually the second half of summer - the beginning of autumn. For the central part of Russia, the most favorable dates are August 10 - 25. How to grow a good lawn? To do this, you need to properly land. If you have to sow the grass with your hands, then the following scheme will do: divide the entire volume of seeds into two parts and sow in two approaches. Moreover, the sowing directions should take place in 2 mutually perpendicular directions. Each part must be mixed with sand in a ratio of 1: 3.​

​How to grow a lawn​​In regards to mowing, the same rule must be observed - cut only 1/3 of the height. If you could not mow the lawn in time and it has overgrown, proceed as shown in fig. 5. With regard to watering and top dressing, there are no such strict rules as for a garden lawn: be guided by weather conditions, your desire and the state of the lawn.

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When arranging a lawn, you need to constantly fight against the emergence of weeds, which will simply “clog” the ornamental grass, and its appearance will look rather unattractive. To remove weeds, use preparations specially designed for this. At the moment, roundup and raglon are considered the best. But planting lawn grass after the use of these drugs should be carried out only after 2 weeks.

Sow 40-50 g / m2, or 4-5 kg ​​per 1 weave. When buying seeds, keep in mind that in the spring of next year, for overseeding and repairing the lawn, an additional approximately 0.5 to 1 kg of seeds per hundred square meters will be required. When stored for a year, the germination of seeds decreases, but only slightly (by 1–2%). If the land in the chosen place is flat, some kind of grass grows on it, you can just start mowing it regularly - and you will have a green lawn. But if there was a forest on the site of the site, or the land needs to be dug for other reasons, you will have to start planting the lawn in accordance with all the rules. We will tell you how to make a lawn in the country with your own hands, what kind of lawn grass to buy, how often the lawn needs watering and mowing.

Lawn planting

Removing weeds from a lawn planting site is the most difficult, almost impossible task. When planting a lawn industrially proceed as follows. The area is sprayed with a special solution so that all weeds die. After that, 10 cm of the top layer of the earth impregnated with chemistry is torn off. Next, new specially prepared soil is poured, or a rolled lawn is laid. So that there are no weeds, in the fall the ground is covered with spunbond. Summer sowing is not applicable in hot and dry regions: direct sunlight is detrimental to tender seedlings, and even regular watering often does not save the situation. Spring planting is preferable here, and in the case of autumn, preliminary plentiful watering is necessary, which allows the soil to be saturated with moisture to a depth of 50 cm or more.

How to properly water your lawn

After the seeds have been scattered, lightly work them into the soil with a rake. After that, you need to walk the skating rink over the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe entire site. This will provide the seed with a closer contact with the ground, and also accelerates the germination of seeds by 2-4 days.​

And so that the quality of the coating does not differ from professional lawns. There is nothing difficult about this, it is simply necessary to strictly follow the recommendations that have been made.

Mowing the lawn: a few important rules

Before winter, it must be cut, watered and collected all the leaves and debris so that it leaves clean in the winter. In the spring, the lawn needs to be combed out, fed, rolled up if the earth is very swollen, and then ... However, you already know what to do.​ Then trim and water. This includes legumes - red, pink, white clovers, bird-foot, yellow alfalfa, blue, sowing sainfoin. Such lawns are cut from 1 time per month to 2 times per season, depending on how wet the weather is.

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• Best time to sow a lawn
• What is a lawn? This is a specially arranged, leveled area, sown with various turf-forming or creeping low-growing plants. Lawns can be sports, decorative and special purpose.​
• If we are talking about planting a lawn in an ordinary country house, then an industrial method of preparing the land is hardly possible. Therefore, we have to resort to another method, which may not be as effective as the industrial one, but accessible to everyone.​

If you create a lawn on the native land of a summer cottage, then it is best to prepare the land a year in advance. When early spring comes and the soil allows, you need to start digging up the site so that the roots remain in the sun and the greens go down. Two or three diggings will destroy all vegetation in the dug up area, and rotted roots will give nutrients to the ground. To protect the land from sowing seeds with weeds, at the end of July, a black film is placed on it - spunbond. In the fall, the dug-up area is once again covered with a spunbond, and in this form it waits out the winter. The film will protect it from sowing with foreign seeds.

Lawn - wintering

The final stage of planting is watering. This is where the soft rain effect comes in handy. It is important that moisture does not linger on the surface of the soil, but evenly soaks the deep layers. Water the planted area only in the evenings. Until the first shoots appear, watering is carried out daily. First of all, it is necessary to choose and properly prepare a site for the future lawn. It must be freed from any vegetation: weeds, shrubs and trees growing here.​Natural​

It is very good to cover the lawn for the winter: powder on top with a layer of 1-2 cm with a mixture (peat + sand + garden soil) and roll.

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The soil under the lawn is fertilized and covered with grass seeds.

- spring (May) or late summer (second half of August), when the soil is warm and there is enough moisture. You can sow throughout the summer, even in the very heat, if you regularly water the plants and protect the crops with covering material (lutrasil, spunbond). Covering materials can protect the lawn from birds and wind.​

Sports lawns are created at stadiums, hippodromes and other sports grounds. Special-purpose lawns are needed at airfields, slopes of highways and railways, hydraulic and other structures. Ornamental lawns adorn gardens, parks, boulevards of cities, backyards and summer cottages. Depending on the location and composition of growing herbs, they are divided into the following classes.​

Lawn care throughout the year

First you need to dig the area under the lawn. This is advisable if the land has not been dug on the site for a couple of years. If the land is loose, then it is enough to pull out the weeds and proceed to cultivation. When digging, it is important to remove all weeds and root elements. The work is not easy, but it gives a good result. If you want to sow the lawn in the same year, you will have to work hard. You need to dig up the earth with your own hands in small sections, carefully sorting through each lump of earth and choosing the roots. The land ready for sowing must be treated with herbicides (for example, Roundup is well suited for this). Before sowing, complex fertilizers are added, which can also be dissolved in water by watering the ground before planting. According to lawn planting technology, seeds are sown in spring, but there are some types of grasses that can be planted in August. This is meadow bluegrass. Lawn planting

If hot and dry weather persists after planting the lawn, then the area should be watered twice a day. But in autumn, rains will take over the function of watering. Ideally, a lawn field should have a completely flat surface, but in reality it is impossible to find such a site. That is why the surface of the site needs to be leveled, see how to do it here. ("wild") lawn

In winter, in no case do not pour salt on the paths! In March, scatter the snow piles on the lawn that formed after cleaning the paths and paving. If an ice crust has formed somewhere, then break it, otherwise the lawn has nothing to breathe.

Lawn mowing plan by year.

. It is believed that in our climate the ratio of open and closed space is optimal as 2: 1 (“open” is considered the part of the site planted below eye level), naturally, the lawn also enters this open space. You have to figure out how much area to allocate for it, evaluate the illumination of the place. It is desirable that the lawn be of the same type - either sunny or penumbra. When preparing a site for a lawn, special attention should be paid to the fertility of the earth. If the soil is clayey and heavy, the rational solution is to dig it up and add some sand. To increase fertility, fertilizers and peat must be added to the soil. Fresh manure cannot be used to fertilize the land, as it may contain a large number of weeds or their seeds. When sowing a lawn, it is recommended to use boards, short but wide skis or a sheet of plywood so that there are no footprints on loose soil .First class (highest) - parterre lawns. After digging, it is necessary to process the area with a cultivator. The cultivator will chop up the remains of the roots, which will increase the chances of destroying weeds, and loosen the soil.

Natural (wild) lawn

It is advisable to use a mixture of herbs. This allows you to provide greater resistance to changes in weather conditions than when sowing grass of one type. When compiling the mixture, three to five types of herbaceous plants are taken with different characteristics and preferences. The average germination period is two weeks. The term can be both reduced and increased. Everything will depend on the type of grass chosen, the air temperature and the level of humidity. There is no need to achieve a completely flat surface. The main thing is that obvious potholes and local irregularities are not visible. It’s just great if, as a result of leveling, the site acquires a slight slope.​

- this is the one that grows in the garden "by itself", it must be cut for the first few years every week, then - less often, it is thick, beautiful (but not emerald green!), Easy to care for and winters well. ​

After the snow melts, comb the lawn well. Then, when the grass dries, aeration is necessary - piercing with a pitchfork or special slippers to a depth of 10-15 cm.

Before purchasing

The growth of lawn grass depends not only on the composition of the soil, but also on the quality of the seeds used for sowing. When planting a lawn, a mixture of several varieties of grass is usually used. They have different properties and complement each other. The choice of seeds must be approached with all responsibility. They should match where the lawn is located - in the shade or in the sun, and the composition of the soil. Only using high quality seeds, you can achieve a lawn that will not subsequently require constant mowing. Landscape design experts recommend using seeds that are adapted specifically to our climate, that is, domestic breeders.

Before sowing, the seeds are thoroughly mixed by adding sand or dry earth (1: 1). The mixture is divided into two (or more) equal parts and one part is distributed over the surface of the soil, passing along the site, the other - across. Places along the paths and along the edge of the lawn are sown somewhat thicker. The sown seeds are lightly covered with a rake into the ground - this will protect them from drying out.

They are created in the main parts of the architectural composition of the garden, near fountains, sculptural groups, decorative ponds, etc. The main requirement when designing parterres is that the area of ​​the main background should prevail over the area of ​​flower beds and other details in the composition. If the area of ​​\u200b\u200bflower beds is equal to the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe grassy base or prevails over it, an impression is created of fragmentation and variegation, there is no integrity in the perception of the whole picture. The lawn should be planted in such a way that it can be mowed at least 2 times before frost. In other words, it is good to plant a lawn until mid-summer. Creeping bent grass grows rapidly with careful watering, spreads along the ground, thereby creating a carpet of greenery. How to feed tomatoes after planting Do-it-yourself drip irrigation scheme

10 tips for watering your lawn.

Lawn watering

Watering the lawn should be done in the early morning or late evening, but not in hot weather. Moisture from the lawn evaporates quickly in hot weather and this does not bring the desired result, and plus this is an extra water consumption. But do not forget that during the daytime watering the grass can burn the sun's rays.

The most important rule: it is better to water well once than many times and little by little.

A lawn that has not been watered for a long time, on the contrary, needs to be watered little by little and often. Moisture should gradually soak the soil.

Cold water from a well or a well is not perceived very well by lawn cereals. Many of my friends use water for lawn watering from reservoirs: pools or drive ponds.

It is better to water the lawn not with a direct stream, but from sprinklers, and even more so not to flood it. When watering with a direct jet, you wash out all the useful substances from the topsoil. And when watering with sprinklers, moisture gradually permeates the soil, while the plants take all the necessary amount of moisture from the soil.

New or seeded lawn should only be watered with sprinklers and never with a direct stream. Seeds embedded in the soil will be washed with a direct stream and remain on its surface.

Watering the lawn under the trees. It is necessary to water the lawn under the trees abundantly, because the trees absorb moisture abundantly. But even here you should not overdo it, because if the crown is large and the rays of the sun do not warm the soil well, your lawn can simply turn sour. As a result, moss will appear on such an area and the grass will not grow well.

The interval between watering should be such that the moisture is completely absorbed and the grass is dry.

Evergreens on the lawn also require abundant watering, especially in autumn and spring.

That's all! See you soon!