Beautiful Lawn with Their Hands. Sowing the Lawn

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Contents:

The selection of seeds;
How to calculate how must much seed to create a lawn on the plot?;
Lawn seeding;

So, you’ve decided to create a lawn with their hands and to taste, to sow, instead of buying a roll of turf. Start to create a lawn with their hands should select the seeds, and this is the whole story!

The selection of seeds

You can not bother and buy a ready mixture. The finished mixture will be balanced, the seeds will be selected taking into account requirements of location, soil composition, or assignment of the lawn. This is the easiest option.

But if you have already made a brave step in deciding to create a lawn from scratch, get creative and create your mixture, which will soon enjoy the exclusive lawn.

Why should I create a mixture and not sow single plant?

The answer is simple: it is the mixture gives the necessary balance, where the shortcomings of some herbs kompensiruet advantages of others. Therefore, sowing a mixture, as a result, we have an equally good lawn in the shade and in the sun.

Mixtures are composed of grasses that have a one hundred percent germination. The most common herbs for decorative lawn include:

Poa pratensis (the more the mixture of seeds of this plant, the higher the quality of the pitch, ideally its share should account for no less than 30 %).
Lolium perenne
Festuca rubra
Agrostis capillaris

The mixture for this recipe, sown by the rules, will soon become a low thick grass bright green color.

Types of Mixtures?

Versatile – equally well germinate in full sun or shade.
Solar – suitable for areas, most of the day under the sun.
Shadow – perfect for shaded areas.
Quick – used to “repair” the damaged parts of the lawn. Their rapid growth rates.

How to calculate how must much seed to create a lawn on the plot?

In agriculture there is a term “seeding” is the least of seeds, allowed for the sowing of a certain area. This term is used in landscape design. There is a common seeding rate of 50 g per 1 sq m, or 5 kg per 1 sq. m of land.

Counting the number of seeds for the area don’t forget to consider that you need to buy extra 0.5-1 kg of seeds for a reserve for repair or overseeding.

Lawn seeding

Once you have determined your lawn, choose a grass mixture, it’s time to move on to the preparation of land for lawn.

Preparation and planting occur in several stages:

To prepare the soil. If the soil is poor, then it should be fertilized or even to bring a layer of fertile soil 10-20 cm. it is Also very important to clear the land from weeds, otherwise then they will interfere with the growth of the lawn.
Rummage the ground, preferably no deeper than 20 cm, straighten the surface with a rake. After loosening and leveling the ground is compacted by a roller (you can use a barrel filled with water).

To sow the seeds. First, sow the edge of the land. Next half one seed sown along the section, and the second across.

Cover the seeds with soil. Use a raker translational movements seeds are covered with earth. Next, mandatory procedure – rolling roller. From this the seeds of a better interlock with the ground and germinate better afterwards.
Water. The first week of the next pitch should be watered every day, in dry days even twice a day.