How to care for the lawn: useful tips

Being the owner of a lawn is not always easy to care for him, especially if you do not know how to do it right. Suppose the lawn was sown, or the site was covered with a roll lawn. In both of these cases, careful care of the lawn is necessary so that it always looks fresh and beautiful, is a decoration of the landscape, and not some overgrown grass.

What to do to have a perfect lawn?

After winter

After each winter, soil drainage is necessary. After draining the soil, it is necessary to sow in the midst of the lawn so that after the lawn has grown there are no empty or rarely planted sob grass. Do not forget to feed the soil with fertilizers, as well as water and mow the lawn.

For more beautiful appearance of the lawn, it is necessary to check and, if necessary, trim the edges of the lawn. It would be nice to get an aerator for lawn aeration. Lawn aeration is 10 cm soil piercing. in depth and the distance between the punctured rows of 15-20 cm.

Also, if there is an opportunity, then for convenience it is necessary to purchase a scarifier, with the help of which the lawn is cleaned of all kinds of garbage. Instead of an aerator, you can use ordinary pitchforks, and instead of a scarifier - a rake.

Lawn bald spot

If bald spots have formed on the lawn, it is necessary to clean this place from debris to clean soil, after which the cleaned place is covered with earth or compost and leveled. The next step is to plant this area with new lawn grass.

Fertilizer (top dressing) of the lawn

Fertilize the lawn with special granules. Fertilizer occurs by uniform application of granules on the surface of the lawn and its subsequent watering.

Fertilization (top dressing) of the lawn should not be carried out often, about two times per season. It is not recommended to fertilize the lawn in dry weather. Preferably after a rainy period of time.

Lawn mowing

The basis of any neat and beautiful lawn is a correct and timely mowing and systematic and timely watering. For mowing, it is advisable to use special lawn mowers and trimmers. The height of the grass should not exceed 4.5 - 5 cm.

A trimmer is necessary when the height of the lawn has become too great. Then, with the help of it, the lawn is removed by half and then the lawn mower is mowed until the grass of the lawn becomes the required height. Haircuts are made every 10-15 days, watering must be done systematically, at least once every two days and in large quantities.