How the remains of a lawn and make sure it green and healthy

The lawn is one of the most important features in a garden and a manicured lawn is a beautiful sight. See our features below to learn how to make a lawn from scratch, how to deal with problems and pests and how to maintain your lawn throughout the year.

Make lawn

The Turf

Turf is pre-grown grass that is cut from the ground ready to use you as an instant lawn. Grown grass lawn provides a good quality turf grass is cheaper but it may have weeds or bare patches. Lay sod as soon as possible after arrival and within a month or two you will have a well-established lawn. You can ask the turf early fall to late spring, as long as the soil is not too dry, frozen or swampy. Laying sod is fast but it is at least 10 times more expensive than grass seed.

Before you begin, you must have: Sharp spade, garden fork, garden rake, fertilizer special turf grass, a wooden board and a sharp kitchen knife.

Dig the soil or fork over then rake until level. Remove stones and roots as you go. Sprinkle the fertilizer at the recommended dose and rake it in. Tread space throughout, sinking your weight low enough to consolidate your heels soft plates. Rake over to cover the tracks.

Without stepping on the ground prepared, put a line-up grass in a straight line along one end of the area, interfering their short sides together. Pressing the inclined head, so that between each sod contacts the ground below. Place your board on the line of grass that you just referred and walk along it as you ask the next row, staggering the joints between the turves as joints in brick. Repeat stroking each new line down with the rake. When you have covered the entire region, trim the outer edge of the grassy area with a sharp kitchen knife, so the edge of the lawn following the shape of your beds.

Keep well watered for several days until the turf is knitted together area. To test, try to take off the corner of a window turf haphazard - if you can not stand, and the grass has rooted down

From Seed

Growing grass seed costs much less than using the turf, but you really can sow a lawn during April-May or September-early October. It takes 4-6 months to get a used lawn so it's usually best to plant in the fall. Although you have to wait longer for a lawn from seed, it's a lot less work than laying sod.

Before you begin, you must have: digging spade, digging fork, garden rake, special pre-seeding, lawn fertilizer, grass seed (25050g per square meter).

Prepare the ground in the same way as if you were on grass. Dividing the total amount of grass seed in half. Sprinkle a lot in one direction, then repeat, extending in the opposite direction. The objective is to ensure that the seed is spread very thinly and evenly throughout, without bare patches. Rake the area again slightly expect to see about half of the show again, when you're done. Most grass seed is treated with avifuge but if you have a problem with birds, twiggy pea sticks lay on the ground.

After a few weeks you should start to see a green stubble appear. Stay off the lawn while it is setting and keep well watered. As the grass begins to thicken up very gently cut the grass with a mower set high enough to take the advice off the grass which helps to root more Write lawn It is cut right first on a dry day, set the mower when the blades are at their highest setting and let the grass on the box to catch the clippings.

Walking on the grass until it has been cut repeatedly and begins to look like a proper lawn. Keep the blades set high for cuts in the early years and then gradually reduce, but do not cut shorter than 3cm to start.

Lawn Care

Rough grass can be left to self-care for most of the time, but a good lawn needs regular attention if you just want to keep looking its best.

Mowing

A lawn really needs to be cut every time it grows about 1 cm longer than you want. If you leave a lawn to grow long and then cut it short, it will be miserable for a while, because you will cut into the thick, brown or yellow at the base of the stems of plants, rather than the leaf blades green. Regular mowing produces a greener, denser, harder resistant lawn.


Mow in the spring when the grass is dry enough, with blades set high just to cut the top. Lower the blade as lawn used to cut, but if the weather gets dry in summer, increase the blade again to reduce stress on the grass. As the weather gets colder in the fall, raise the blades return to their level of spring, but do not give up cut grass for the winter as it will continue to grow unless it's really cold.

It's up to you to decide if you prefer a grass-box or not, but the greens tend to do better if you do.

Rendering

After cutting the grass, trim around the edges with edge shears. However, before using edge shears, you need an edge of the lawn - shallow dish, clean sharp ravine around your beds and borders with a vertical drop. Hold the blade of the cutter against the surface being cut.

Supply

All lawns need feeding if they are good. The most important moment of the feed is in late spring, as the beginning of the growing season, but you can continue to feed every six weeks until the fall to keep looking for lush grass. Fall, spring and summer grass foods are rich in nitrogen and thereby produce a rich green lawn, but when using a formula low in nitrogen and high in phosphate and potash to harden roots ready for winter. Or, use an organic lawn fertilizer once a month, which releases nutrients over a period of longer than foods lawn time. If you want to improve your lawn without grow faster (so it does not need much mowing), use an autumn lawn feed during the summer instead.

The lawn Calendar

January

  • Remove fallen leaves
  • Do not walk on the grass frozen
  • Rewrote the mower and ensure that other lawn tools are ready in the spring
  • Sod is possible during periods of good

February

  • In light districts worm casts may appear, wipe dry
  • Do not be tempted to mow your lawn before March
  • Complete grassing this month
  • Begin soil preparation at the end of the month if you intend to sow the seed

March

As soon as the grass begins to grow and the weather is nice, raking the lawn to remove leaves and surface debris. Do not rake too vigorously at this stage or you may damage the turf.

  • If there were severe frosts during the winter, set the grass by the light material
  • Choose a dry day for the first cut and merely remove the upper part of the grass
  • Two cuts are sufficient this month
  • Apply moss killer if necessary
  • Lawn neaten edges with a half-moon edging iron
  • Repairing broken edges

April

  • Food and weeding can begin to the end, as long as the grass and weeds are actively growing
  • Mow often enough to stop grass growing away, but do not cut too low
  • Dig coarse grass plates - Fill the holes with sieved soil and reuse seed or re-turf

May

  • Continue mowing, increase the frequency if needed and lower the cutting height
  • You should be mowed once a week
  • This is the best month to kill weeds
  • Water if the month is particularly dry before obvious signs of distress

June

  • Mow twice a week when the soil is moist. If there is a long Dry Spell, increase the height of the cup and do not use the box the grass.
  • It's time for summer feeding and weeding
  • Cut the edges regularly
  • Be prepared to water if there is a dry spell

July

  • Mow regularly at the height of summer
  • Water if dry weather continues
  • Rake occasionally

August

  • General treatment as for July
  • August is the last month of the year to kill weeds and feeding with a fertilizer rich in nitrogen
  • Sowing seeds can begin in late August

September

  • Increasing the interval between mowing and increase the cutting height
  • Worms may become active at this time of the year
  • Scarify and Spike all compacted areas and then top dress
  • Treat sick spots
  • Fight against moles this month
  • Sowing

October

  • Proceed to the last cut or two, raising the cutting height.
  • Cut the lawn edges
  • Apply autumn Feed
  • Repairs mowers
  • Fill the scarify-spike-routine dress Top
  • Refresh your leaves
  • Dig coarse tufts of grass, and then re-sod or re-seed the bare areas
  • Lay sod

November

  • Perform final cut if time is not frozen or wet
  • All equipment must now be cleaned and oiled for winter storage
  • Keep the lawn clear of leaves and other debris

December

  • Brush away leaves
  • Keep out of the lawn when it is wet or frozen
  • Sodding is possible during periods of good

Lawn problems

Thatch

Thatch is an accumulation of dead bits of grass on the surface of the soil under the lawn and is quite natural in lawns that are older. Thatch prevents rain from soaking up the grass roots and keeps moisture in the soil surface, encouraging the foam. Thatch will accumulate faster if you do not use a box on your lawn mower http://lawnmowerleader.com/. Rake it regularly organized during the autumn as part of a regular lawn care program.

Compaction

Compaction also occurs on older lawns and made us while standing on furniture or running heavy wheelbarrows on him, or even just standing on it during rainy weather. All this activity squash down the lawn and plant roots more difficult to push through the hard ground. Spiking the soil with a fork reduces compaction and doing some airways, helps the grass grow. Again this is a job that is best done in autumn. On clay soil follow the doping brushing grainy sand in the vertical drainage channels (about a bucket of water per square meter), which makes it tougher to walk, even better drainage in wet conditions.

Weeds

The rosette-forming, or broadleaf weeds such as daisies, plantain and dandelions are easily removed with selective lawn weed killers. You can be on site to treat weeds with a person willing to use or you can sprinkle a combined weed and feed treatments over the entire lawn. For small-leaved weeds you will need a liquid herbicide that is specially designed for this type of weeds. And dilute with water on a bobbin. Dead weeds leave bald patches on the lawn that are quickly colonized by weed seeds and moss, so it's a good idea to feed at the same time weeding, if the grass grows well there will be no room for weeds.

Killers lawn against weeds Use late spring when weeds are growing fast, but before they begin to bloom, when they flower, weeds have become too difficult to respond well to treatment. Apply liquid killer lawn against weeds on a dry day, so it has at least 12 to 24 hours to be taken through the leaves. If it is taken too soon, it will not have the chance to work. If you use a granular weed-heavy food processing on the sprinklers, if it has not rained in 48 hours, to ensure that the treatment is effective.

Moss

Moss will continue to come back if your lawn is in a wet, shady spot. Try to let more light and improve drainage. The cheapest, easiest way to control the foam is rake it out, it is hard work for you may want to invest in a lawnraker lowered. An easier solution is to buy liquid lawn moss killer or killer products that combine foam with lawn food. You need to feed the lawn, so that mixture thickens and fills in the gaps when the foam was to stop weeds coming in. Apply in spring.

Lawn sand is an effective preparation which acts as a fertilizer, herbicides and moss killer, but it can burn the grass if applied too heavily. Do you buy ready-made or make yourself from 4 parts (by weight) of ammonium sulphate: 1 part of ferrous sulfate, and 20 parts of silver sand. Apply at the rate of 115g per 1sq.m (4 oz per sq.yd), the dry spring and early summer, but make sure the soil is moist.

Once the foam turns black, he is dead and can not be raked out.

Lawn Pests

Earthworms

The worms are actually beneficial in the garden - they make hundreds of tiny drainage channels in the soil. They also lead to organic matter such as dead leaves, soil, helping to enrich the soil. However, some species of worm worm leave projected onto the surface of the lawn (mainly in spring and autumn). When the weather is sweeping the worm gets rid of the lawn with a stiff broom.

Ants

Like ants nesting in the soil in dry grass in the summer and they will defend their nests, which often gives you wicked PIN. Ants Posted targets lawns that are thin and have a lot of bare ground, keeping a lawn Goodwill deter. Soak the new nesting sites thoroughly with water to drive ants away, if it does not work, do not worry, the whole colony will fly at the end of the summer.

Moles

Moles dig in lawns in search of earthworms. There are many ways you can try to get rid of moles, but none of them are 100% success rate and even if you do you get rid of one it is likely that another will come in his place shortly after. As a last resort, you can use a taupier. If you accept the moles just remember to brush molehill into the hole to avoid bare lots and a sunken lawn.

Leatherjackets

Leatherjackets are the larvae of the crane fly (Daddy-Long-Legs) and they eat the grass roots. The first thing you know it is full of small yellow spots, or flocks of starlings survey for grubs and there is not much you can do about it except for the repair-pecked up surface after the birds have finished.

Repair lawns

Start by giving the lawn of the annual salary of autumn lawn. This can be done in spring or fall, but if your lawn is really bad there is no reason why you should not renovate in summer, as the temperature is cool and the soil is moist. Mowing the lawn and mow again at right angles to the first cut, the rake and the ear, then use lawn fertilizer in the fall - even if it is spring or summer (which is best to thicken the grass and stimulating the roots).

Bald Patches

Some bald patches on the lawn due to constant use from the regular heavy foot traffic, for this is the case, you would be better off investing in a good way. Some plates may be because the grass does not grow well, and doping and food may be just what he needs. Other patches may simply be "scalped" bumps, which occur when the mower "grounds". Leveling the lawn will correct it. If there are bald patches where weeds were removed large rosette, either because the lawn in poor condition, the fastest way to deal with them is to reseed or returf.

Broken Edges

Broken lawn edges appear sloppy, make it difficult mowing and edging almost impossible. Take a quick chat and cut a square of grass with a broken part on one side. Turn around and put it back into the ditch, so that the line is around the outside of the lawn and the broken part is inside. This leaves a hole in the lawn. Fill the hole with topsoil and then shut the seed again as if it were a bald head.

The peaks and troughs

To mitigate the peaks of the strip of grass off the tip, remove a portion of the soil and sub-regional level immediately before putting the grass back. The recesses are treated the same way, but in reverse. Remove the grass Claim topsoil until the recess is level and back to the grass.

Alternative Lawns

Wildflower Lawn

A lawn of wildflowers is just a bit of grass, which are not cut as short as usual when you encourage low-growing wildflowers such as primroses, violets and primroses. Some people also like to encourage some lawn weeds. A wildflower meadow is beautiful in summer and attracts butterflies and bees. You can either leave the wildflowers happen naturally, and remove the ones you do not want, or you can plant wild flowers of your choice in the lawn in the spring, they will self-seed once they are established. A lawn of wildflowers do not need to diet and do not forget to cut a couple of times a year in early spring and autumn.

Clover Lawn

White clover (Trifoliurn repens) is a very good pitch. " Sow the same way as a normal lawn using clover seed you can buy specialized seed companies. Clover stays green in dry weather and it grows only about 5-8cm (2-3in), so it does not need regular mowing. Clover is a mass of flowers in summer and very attractive to bees.

Flower Lawn

Lawn classic flower chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile Treneague '). You can also push a lawn of creeping thyme, a mixture of Alpine mattforming, or one of chamomiles flowers such Chamaemelum nobile 'Flore Pleno'. Flowering lawns do not require mowing, just one more clip after flowering, but they must be weeded by hand so you may not want a large area. The types of plants used in lawns and flower beds need a sunny location with excellent drainage to dig a lot of sand or gravel in the area before planting.

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