Only a well thought out plan of the lawn and the careful preparation of the soil will allow you to break the front of the house neat area, which will require a minimum of care and will delight you with its emerald green long years.
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Sowing grass rainy spring or autumn will save 100 square meters on irrigation. m lawn to 30 hours.
Sow lawn mixtures containing seeds of slow growing crops.
Decorative or functionality?
First of all, decide how the objectives will be your lawn. Decorative lawn is Perfect garden decoration, but it is severely affected by trampling, and therefore of little use for everyday needs. If you are going to use the lawn as a platform for games or picnics, you will need to hardier version. It is best to break up a lawn simple geometric shapes - square, rectangular or round. In the future this will facilitate the care of the green carpet. The strip of the lawn, for example between the beds should not be less than the width of the lawnmower. On sale you can find lawn seed mixtures for lawns of whatever type - decorative, landscape, sports or lawn of wild grasses and flowers.
High-quality lawn mix should consist of the largest possible number of species and varieties of plants - they should not be less than seven. Among the plants are resistant to trampling, suitable for lawn landscape are primarily Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass (perennial ryegrass). Elegant look bentgrass turf will give thin or red fescue. On sports and gaming lawns need to grow particularly hardy grass such as timothy or Grebennikov. And if you choose lawn mixtures of seeds of slow growing crops, then you will have much less likely to use the mower. Also, when mowing the lawn this will produce less herbal crumbs that you have to rake up and remove from the site.
preparatory work
Unpretentious, easy to care for the lawn can be decomposed almost whatever garden soil.
But if it is carefully prepared for sowing grasses established lawn can be the subject of your pride. Preparatory work, which at first glance require too much time and effort, then for many years to relieve you of many problems.
First of all you need to thoroughly loosen the ground - as far as possible with the help of cultivators. Topsoil should be fine lumpy and crumbly, but sufficiently dense. It should be good to pass water and air. Too tight to loosen heavy soils need, adding sand, and too easy to enrich special lawn soil mix or compost. Since surface irregularities subsequently obstruct mowing, you must align the rake all elevations and depressions on its surface. Remove all the stones, roots, and most importantly, weeds - after all it will pay off handsomely. After that, let the land rest for about a month, and then delete the newly emerged weeds with a rake.
For good growth lawn needs nutrients. It is best to make it into the prepared soil a special lawn fertilizer and then sown in her lawn mixture.
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