The desire of mankind for nature has long been not limited to shish kebabs in the country. May Day slogans have acquired a new color. Instead of the beaten: "peace-labor-may" today more mundane and actual aspirations are proclaimed: "dacha-lawn-spring-care".
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After winter frosts and cold weather, the lawn has an unsightly appearance: the dry grass and translucent areas of the earth make it clear that it's time to start agrotechnical measures. What is to be done to ensure that the lawn after the hibernation has acquired its former juicy and dense herbs?
Lawn care after winter
The main agrotechnical measures for care are:
- rolling of soil
- combing out old grass using lawn and fan rakes
- aeration and verticalization of the upper layer
- mulching
- top dressing and watering.
Start activities should be in March during the active thawing of snow. It is recommended not to allow waterlogging of the lawn carpet and formation of stagnant puddles. Conduct stitching of wet and wet areas, limiting movement on a wet surface, thus eliminating the formation of potholes and bumps. After the lawn dries under the sun and the wind, you can begin to roll the soil and then aerate.
we put out the soil and comb out the lawn
Soil sweeping is done using hand rollers weighing up to 100 kg after increasing the looseness of the soil and swelling it over the dry lawn grass. Roll the lawn in the directions along and across.
Scarification or combing out the lawn is the manual removal of dead grass, decayed leaves and weeds using a fan rake.
The combing of the grass is done in two directions, removing the remnants of felt from the lawn of last year's layer.
However, scraping with a rake for combing a lawn is not capable of providing the root system of lawn grass with oxygen. More effective measures are considered aeration of the soil to create a continuous gas exchange of surface ground air with atmospheric oxygen.
aeration of the lawn
For the treatment (ventilation) of the lawn, special mechanisms are used - aerators. The function of the aerator of the lawn is to pierce the grass and cover part, providing access to oxygen and moisture to the root system.
There are two ways of aeration:
- piercing (depth 8-10 cm), used for wetland soils
- superficial pricking (depth 1-4 cm) with a slow absorption of moisture during irrigation.
Puncturing is done by punching the garden forks into the entire length of the teeth.
For surface pricking, aerators are used and simple devices capable of ensuring the puncture of the cover part of the lawn in the form of sandals for aeration of the lawn.
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The best time to ventilate the lawn is spring and autumn. In the summer, the lawn is not ventilated due to hot and hot weather. Before the beginning of the aerating of the lawn, scarification is carried out and the surface intensifying the soil drainage is mulched.
For clayey soil with poor air circulation, aeration and verticalization of the upper layer are mandatory.
Useful information about the aeration of the lawn is shown in the video.
lawn mulching
The utility of mulching a lawn is proven by the practice of lawn maintenance. Mulching improves the mechanical properties of the soil and its composition, stimulating the development of the root system of the grass stand. Specialists recommend adding a mixture for mulching every spring.
Lawn mulching is carried out with the appearance of visible cracks and depressions on the surface over not overgrown grass. Prepare a mixture for mulching from peat, humus and turf ground and pour defective areas in a ratio of 1.5 kg of mixture per 1 sq.m. The introduced mixture is leveled by rakes on the surface of the lawn, without covering the grass.
By the way, in addition to the well-known method of mulching, it is recommended to pay attention to the enhanced nutrition of the lawn, which means that the soil needs to be fed.
lawn fertilizing
Top dressing of the lawn after winter is necessary to produce nitrogen-containing complex fertilizers. Let's say that this type of fertilizer is most in demand among lawnmakers, as well as nitroammophos. The rate of application of complex fertilizer for lawn is 30 g / m2. In addition to the complex fertilizer, the lawn is fed with urea and ammonium sulfate at a rate of 20 g / m2.
Top dressing of a lawn in the spring is done in two ways: by dry powdering of the granulated composition by hand and by applying a fertilizer solution by watering from the watering can. Watering with a solution of fertilizers is more labor-intensive, but quite effective.
When liquid fertilizer is applied, it is recommended to prepare a solution for irrigation separately in a bucket, and then pour into a watering can.
It should be remembered that uneven application of fertilizers can cause stain formation on which the grass stand will grow and also grow unevenly.
lawn repair - learn to make patches
Over the winter, the surface of the lawn can be damaged, so it is recommended to study the problem areas and make a small repair. If the grass is strongly thinned, then after rolling and mulching, additional seed sowing is carried out.
To obtain a good percentage of germination, the undercropping sites are also fed with fertilizers. Let's open the secret of sowing seeds for the "killed" lawn: spend sowing two weeks earlier, reducing the seeding rate.
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Repair of the lawn produces a patch of a piece of turf, which is cut in the plane, turned over and transferred to a damaged place where the vegetation is turned upside down. The payment is carefully adjusted to the damaged area, tightly pressed and abundantly watered. If the edges of the lawn are damaged, then to sow on the edge of the grass does not make sense. Therefore, the edge is repaired with a patch.
the correct watering of the lawn in spring
Spring time for lawn watering is deceptive. It is known that in cold weather at daytime temperatures plus 10 ° C watering is ineffective and can cause harm. Therefore, to water the lawn after winter hibernation is better in warm days, when the soil warms up. The norm of spring watering of the pen is 15 liters. on sq.m.
Thus, timely agrotechnical measures for aeration and verification, fertilizing and watering are the necessary conditions for the restoration of the lawn after winter.
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