Fashion for lawn cover today takes on a large scale, almost like a football field Stade Velodrome. And it all began with modest lawns, autocratically sown with grass on the eve of the Easter holidays. According to biologists and breeders, creating a natural lawn with a dense sod will take considerable time. However, there is a more affordable option is a roll lawn.
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In place of the laborious process of growing the sowing lawn came roll lawns, not inferior, but superior in quality to traditional lawns. The main thing is to technologically correctly lay a roll lawn.
Green roll lawn
The appearance on our homesteads and lawns of rolled lawns is due to the French, who introduced and developed technology of a fast and progressive way. Today, artificially created turf grown on innovative technology became the property of landscape parks, sports grounds and private houses.
Without waiting for the favorable weather conditions necessary for the creation of a traditional lawn sown personally with grass mixtures for 1-2 years, the installation of a roll lawn after lining and watering will immediately make you happy with fresh and juicy greens. Persuade to create a roll lawn or sowing will help different types of coating and styling technology.
difference and advantages
What is the difference between a lawn roll and a sown lawn?
Let us show that these are obvious advantages:
• homogeneity of the lawn without additional grass sowing
• absence of weeds, reduced to the minimum amount in the process of selection of the mixture.
Agree that the creation of a uniform grass carpet when sowing seeds in areas of complex natural relief is almost impossible. Lawn grass will sprout unevenly, forming missed places. In addition, rains and watering from a heavy hand-moved water hose cause damage to the lawn, and hungry birds peck sweet young sprouts.
On the sowing lawn, the weeds grow faster and larger than the lawn grass, many material and physical resources are expended on fighting them. Whether it's the case, a ready-made lawn with sown and treated grass, the turf of which is tightly interlaced with the developed root system of herbs, through which weeds are difficult to grow.
This advantage over the sowing lawn allows you to buy a roll lawn from the manufacturer, especially since the turn-key coating provides for planning, soil preparation, cultivation, compaction and stacking of the finished roll.
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Characteristics of a single roll of a gas coating from the manufacturer are sharpened for convenience of operation and transportation. The size of the turf roll is: length from 1.8 to 2.5 m, width 0.4-0.5 m, thickness 20-25 mm. The total area of the carpet is 0.72-0.80 m.2 with a density of shoots of 10 thousand per 1 sq.m. and the number of weeds 2 plants per 50 sq. m.
To calculate the area of the placement of a roll lawn, the price of which depends on the area of the roll, it is necessary to provide for the complexity of the configuration of the site, the curvature of the roll and the mating for pruning. The average percentage of additional space for the device of a roll lawn leaves 10%.
Lawn for the whole season - types and composition of the mixture
According to the purpose and composition of the herbal mixture, the following types of roll lawns are distinguished:
• universal decorative
• sports
For each type of rolled lawn grown on industrial agricultural fields with fertile soil for 2 years, is considered characteristic:
• composition of the mixture
• the stage of formation of the germination of the best rolled lawn.
Thanks to the industrial technology of cultivation, rolled lawns are resistant to damping and freezing, and care of the lawn is simple and labor-intensive.
decorative roll
The composition of the grass mix of the decorative roll lawn is as follows:
• bluegrass meadow variety Alpina - 50%
• Red Fescue Jasperll - 40%
• Fiesta ryegrass 3-10%.
For the decorative roll lawn, the average growth of grass is characteristic.
sports roll
The roll sports lawn characterizes the slow growth of the grass mixture, its resistance to trampling and the rapid restoration of the original species.
Composition of the grass mix of the sports roll lawn:
• bluegrass meadow variety Alpina - 30%
• bluegrass meadow Touchdown - 25%
• meadow grasshopper Mercury - 25%
• Fiesta ryegrass - 20%.
requirements for turf turf turf
To the turf of any kind of rolled lawn, certain requirements are imposed, due to the viability of the grass condition and the standards of the grass mixture. A healthy lawn turf is distinguished by the uniformity and juiciness of stems and leaves, as well as the density of the root system, which contributes to good adhesion. If you look at the slice rolled into the coil roll, then the thickness of the sod should be the same in all areas.
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The density of the sod should contain 50% of the healthy roots of the grass and be such that when the grass is mowed at a height of 40 mm, no soil layer is visible. The thickness of the soil in the roll should not exceed 25-30 mm, and the percentage of foreign cultures and weeds should not exceed 1%. Each roll should be clearly marked by edge lines without visible flaws and defects that facilitate the process of laying the rolled lawn mechanically or manually.
When cutting and rolling out, the lawn should not crumble, crumble and damage, so special requirements are imposed on transportation of the coating.
Features of laying a roll lawn
coil transportation
To the place of packing rolls are delivered on special pallets 1,2x1,0 m in the rolled condition for the following types of unloading: upper, rear, side and tail lift with the use of special equipment (loader, crane and roller). Recall that each roll has a solid weight of 25 to 35 kg, the total weight of the pallet can reach 1500 kg.
Laying of a rolled lawn can be made manually and with application of a special equipment.
manual laying
Manual laying of a roll lawn consists of the stages:
• Clearing and digging the site with the removal of all roots
• the cut of the fertile layer
• Tramping the pad with tamper
• site marking and fertilization
• Roll placement and rolling.
The first roll is placed with the grass side up on the corner of the marked area and gradually untwists in a straight line. The next rows of rolls are placed and rolled out on the principle of brickwork, trying to lay the next roll tightly to the previous one. Then the roll is smoothed and rolled up, pressing down with a flat press (flooring). The next rows are rolled up, standing on the floor.
How to make a roll of lawn, shown in the video.
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