How to make a lawn with your own hands: styling features

Among summer residents, fewer and fewer are those who would not use the lawn on their plots. Everyone approaches the solution of the issue in different ways: some break a green lawn near the gazebo, others adapt the lawn for children's games, and still others consider its adjoining to a flower bed beautiful. Let's figure out how to do the landscaping work with our own hands.

Sowing and roll - these are the main types of lawns. The first is usually more beautiful, hardy, lush, but also more expensive. The second is more modest, but simple to create - you have to buy it ready to buy and put it right. You save yourself from waiting for grass shoots, care, watering, although at the same time you also lose the joy of the process of creating it. Your lawn is ready immediately after laying, however, it will cost you quite a lot.

Before making a decision, you need to decide on the type of lawn. The options are as follows: parterre, sports, park, Moorish, universal.

• Parterre lawn - exquisite, silky herbs, bright emerald color. The cover is ceremonial, as a rule, the owners do not allow the owners to walk on it, since the plants are very delicate and susceptible to damage. Such a lawn is located in the country near a house, flower bed or alpine slide for decorative purposes.

• Sports - on the contrary, a fairly practical option. Sowed with vegetation, which tends to quickly recover. Serves for the games of children, located near the gazebos, benches, country fountains. The load on the grass is not afraid.
• Park lawn not as persistent as athletic, but also not as capricious as parterre. The grass mixture that makes up the lawn was selected so that it would be possible, if not to run and wallow, then to walk barefoot. In this case, the grass will not be particularly affected.

• Moorish lawn Is an elegant meadow. The herbs here are handpicked flowering. So you get a fragrant, exuberant carpet in color: cornflowers, California poppy, lavatera, chamomile, tenacious. Sunbathing is good in Moorish splendor.
• Universal - lawn for wide use. It does not wear off, the grass does not wrinkle, at the same time it is also a beautiful area with special vegetation. Can be used both in the shade and in the sun.

To create a level lawn, you need to look at ordinary green grass with creativity and imagination. The conviction of the lazy that the lawn is vegetation, which only needs to be mowed occasionally, will immediately negate the whole matter. Tune in to serious maintenance of a green lawn, which will become beautiful only as a result of careful maintenance of it.

The lawn in front of the house looks luxurious if you arrange a flower garden in the middle of a green lawn. The green grassy background will be a gorgeous framing of the flower bed and will set off its elegant palette. In this case, the flower garden should be bordered by a strip of bare earth or a decorative border so that the lawn does not grow into the flower bed.

In general, summer residents need to work very responsibly with the edge of the lawn. It is trimmed with a shovel, and it is better if according to a template. A 3 cm groove is created at the undercut, which is filled with mulch. The lawn must have its own clear configuration. A well-groomed edge makes the lawn more decorative and solemn.

Landscaping experts suggest diluting the "green lake" with bright accents to taste.For example, to form spots from daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia. Many hectare owners like single specimens of ornamental trees or shrubs on the lawn. It can be thuja, juniper, mini cypress, spirea, hydrangea. Here you need to pick up items that would be combined with each other.

It is good to run an elegant path along the lawn along the edge or center. The path will emphasize the aesthetic personality of the lawn. Cutting various shapes on the lawn - circles, squares or complex patterns - has become a fashionable trend. Admirers of unique figures mow paws, leaves with beds, stars and finer designs on lawns.

In order to achieve a healthy, sophisticated lawn, several generations of breeders have filtered different varieties of vegetation to create the perfect lawn.

The requirements for lawn grasses are as follows:

• they must grow in one place for many years;
• be resistant to cold weather;
• have a dynamic, measured rate of growth of young leaves;

• do not suffer from constant haircuts;
• have a low, near the ground, center of tillering;
• do not give out hard long shoots.

For the sports lawn, cereals are prepared, accustomed to develop without moisture, as well as fescue and bluegrass.

To obtain a park lawn, sheep fescue, reed fescue, willow grass, ryegrass, timothy are sown. These are all shade-loving, slow-growing herbs that do not require frequent cutting. In a versatile lawn, a mixture of different varieties of red fescue and bluegrass has proven itself well.

When choosing a place for a lawn in the country, it is important to think not only about yourself, but also about your green lawn. After all, she has to grow, so the structure of the soil and the "needs" of the herbs should be taken into account. For example, it is logical to break an English lawn in front of the house, it needs a well-lit area, a shaded one will not work. In general, any grass will need sun, albeit periodically, otherwise the crops will not give a rich green color.

Sowing a lawn near a private house is quite acceptable, just do not bring crops close to fruit trees. Large plantings suck out all the nutrients from the soil. The grass lacks the right set of elements.

Terraces and other elevation changes at their summer cottage are not very suitable for lawn lawns. They have to be reinforced and smoothed. And, of course, you shouldn't form a lawn at the place where the car is parked or between the gate and the house, where there is a constant movement of people. He will simply die, because even the most hardy grass does not imply a load at which it is trampled endlessly. As a way out, you can consider the option of paving a path with tiles along the route of movement through such a lawn.

A fountain in the middle of a green meadow will look charming. The fountain lawn will shake your guests with emerald vistas and gushing jets of water. Glittering drops that fall on the young green of the lawn are a delightful accent to decorate and refresh the site.

The originals have adapted to sow lawns even on the roofs of garden houses. For this, a special stand is built and low-growing herbs are selected. Environmentalists believe that roof greening is an additional source of oxygen and has a beneficial effect on human well-being.

The technology for growing a lawn by hand is quite simple, but it is very important to fully comply with all the rules. The bookmark is carried out by carefully digging the soil out of the blue. In the process of digging, the soil under the lawn will have to be perfectly leveled, cleaned of stones and roots, as well as weeds. It will be much more difficult to fight the roots on the grown grass. All unnecessary shrubs are uprooted. If you want to leave a tree, carefully dig it around.

Digging is carried out to a depth of 15 cm. If the soil is completely sandy, dilute it with loam. If clay - on the contrary, add sand. It is good to "mix" compost under the lawn sowing. The next step is to further fertilize the soil. Add as much of the specialty compound as indicated on the Universal Lawn Feed package. Calculate the concentration depending on the area that you have planned to equip. Then take a roller and compact the dug area well. Do not put extra effort - just walk them over the surface.

The best time to bookmark a site is April. It is important to do this before the earth is dry. From setting to sowing, at least five weeks should pass (assuming that herbicides were applied), so the deadline for planting is the first two weeks of May.

After preparation, the surface is loosened with a rake. For the optimal arrangement of the lawn, special seeders are used. If such a necessary device is not stocked up, then you can come up with a tin can with holes yourself. The seeds should lie in a dense, dense layer.

On top of the seeds, the soil must be carefully sprinkled, leveled, tamped again and poured with a "light rain" with a weak pressure of water. The first shoots usually appear in a week. When the grass rises to 5 cm, the first cut will need to be done. Then you have to mow the lawn regularly, more often during the rainy season, otherwise the greenery will lose its charm.

In summer and autumn, the lawn is fed. This can be done by spraying fertilizer. To supply air to densely growing grass, it is pierced, producing aeration.

The grown author's lawn will never tire of delighting you throughout the season. For aesthetic effect, it can be decorated with flower beds or an alpine slide. A statue or flowerpot will become an original decoration element.

Reviews about the lawn contain a variety of opinions. Romantics love that there is a place to rest the eye. Practitioners praise the lawn grass that clogs weeds well. Most agree that the lawn is not an occupation for the lazy, it always requires some kind of work to maintain a modest lawn in an aesthetically pleasing condition.

It is believed that it is still better to choose the usual green herbal mixture, since flower lawns do not carry the same pacification as a uniform emerald green area. However, in this case, it is necessary to somehow arrange the lawn.

For those owners of the site, whose soul asks for bright inclusions in the overall picture, we recommend small flower beds with elegant plants. They will well illustrate the theme of cineraria, marigolds, saxifrage, ageratum. Small ponds near the lawn are in trend - water and grass give rise to a unique feeling of peace.

It is fair to say that negative reviews about the "character" of the lawn also take place on the forums. For example, if the soil is not compacted properly, the lawn often sags. And if irrigation is too aggressive, a part of the glade "leaks", after which irregularities are formed. Then the lawn needs to be re-sown, practically starting everything from scratch.

A certain category of summer residents complains about domestic mowers, which do not grasp the grass well. But the ideal lawn mow is the main process for its maintenance. Forum participants come to the conclusion that imported lawn maintenance equipment is better in use. And certainly with the function of collecting grass, so that the cut tops are not collected later on throughout the lawn with a rake.

Participants in the comments clarify that the constant mowing of the lawn and walking on it even in the most hardy grass mixtures gives rise to fatigue, the grass begins to take root worse, the root mass "shrinks". Therefore, the authors of the reviews emphasize, any lawn is sometimes supposed to rest. For this purpose, it is quite possible to allow the ground part of the grass to grow up to 12 or even 15 centimeters. After all, for plants, mowing is always a huge stress.

There is an indescribable variety of variations on the theme of the original layout of lawns. Fantasy natures are very impressed, for example, by such an exquisite style as Japanese. Stones are laid out on the emerald surface. There is an imitation of a perspective space in the foothills. If you also install low lights, it will add mystery and charm to an ordinary grassy area.

An alpine meadow on the site of a lawn, covered with gravel, looks very bright and festive. It resembles a certain fragment of a fairy tale brought into the ordinary gardening reality.

The mini-park on the lawn looks attractive: benches, flower beds, garden figures. It turns out an alley of the city square, along which one is tempted to walk.

Fans of carpet lawns plant grass of different colors on them and achieve its ideal volume. Then the original figures are cut on the surface of the vegetation.

Justified pretentiousness - this is how you can call the lawn, on which carefully processed bushes in the form of bears, towers, huge balls are built.

It is not ordinary flowers that effectively decorate the lawn, but those displayed in pots or other containers. Each element can be decorated with pottery, the composition is changed by moving subjects.

The grass cover also benefits from the vertical flower beds in the background. For example, a screen of weaving roses or just a support for curly curly grass looks amazing.

For information on how to sow a lawn according to all the rules, see the next video.