Well -groomed emerald lawn – the pride of its owners. To decorate your site with a carpet with a carpet, you need to properly and timely take care of it in accordance with the season.First of all, it should be remembered that in the spring you need to handle the lawn carefully – carefully walk along the waterlogged lawn, without provoking the formation of pits and puddles, contribute to the uniformity of melting snow, distributing it along the lawn.
As soon as snow comes off the site and you change your interior of small -sized to the spaces of the suburban area., Literally by ice crust, for rapid recovery after winter and good growth of herbs over the season, the lawn is fed. Complex fertilizer with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is used.
In the middle of spring, a second top dressing is necessary with hairless nitrogen fertilizer, contributing to the growth of green mass.
The end of the spring season involves the introduction of potassium-phosphorus fertilizers, often along with herbicides. Any top dressing is carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the manufacturer, so as not to damage the grass.
Raw and warm spring weather can provoke a “disease” of the lawn with fungi, mold, fusariosis, powdery mildew. “Treat” the foci of damage to spraying with fungicides.
Having carried out spring top dressing and waiting for some lawsuits, they begin to script operations – the lawn cleaning. Remove the rhizome weeds, comb the lawn by fan rakes, getting rid of garbage, moss, dry grass. These manipulations facilitate the access of fertilizers, air and moisture to the roots of lawn grass. The same tasks are designed to solve aeration-piercing turf by 10-15 cm with a pitchfork or specialized tools. Then it is advisable to apply a layer of coarse -grained sand to the lawn, filling the created holes and providing good water permeability. Once every 5 years, serious earth is carried out, sprinkling the lawn with a mixture of organics, fertile land and sand (8-10 kg per 1 m2). Starting from the second year of the existence of the lawn, it is necessary to eliminate the forming ruptures of the layers of turf and excess spring moisture. For this, as soon as the earth dries, the lawn is trampled with a roller.By engaging in the spring law enforcement lawns in order, along the way it is “repaired”: they eliminate irregularities and bald spots, equal to fuzzy edges. Bugorks are cut off, pits pour it with earth – all this, as well as bald spots, is sowed with a suitable lawn grass. After sowing the grass, the lawn is mulched by a mixture of coarse -grained sand with humus (ratio of 2: 1), this will improve and update the structure of the soil, smooth out irregularities, and also hide the seeds of the lawn from birds that want to enjoy them.
The most important component of success in growing the lawn is the correct mowing. Determining the time of the first haircut, it is taken into account that lawns grow at a temperature of +5 s0. They open the season when the grass reaches a height of 15-20 cm, setting the lawn mushroom blade to the maximum level. In May, when the grass grows actively, the lawn begins to mow often (1 time per week) and briefly (3-5 cm). Systematic competent care will make your lawn neat, beautiful and healthy.
