Perfect lawn for the whole season: what should be done in spring

After a winter lawn requires careful maintenance. How to care for your lawn in the spring? FORUMHOUSE consultants will tell how to restore turf

It would not have looked the lawn in the spring, he demands the attention of the owner. Lawn care is necessary, and then he become green in May, as good as new.

Content:

• How to care for your lawn after winter
• How to choose the right fertilizer for the lawn in the spring
• How to deal with piles of moleskin on the lawn
• How to treat snow mold

Spring Lawn Care

In this picture - the lawn, which, according to the consultant Forumhouse, an agronomist with the nickname Sodmaster It looks just perfect. This grass is no problem. For a well wintered lawn, the list of compulsory work could be:

1. Lay down on the pitch excess water. This operation is performed during heavy snowmelt. If the ice was formed - it is necessary to split it.

2. Prikatat. This work is carried out after the ground thaws completely. Earth "puchit", and it is necessary to "lay siege".

3. Scour sharp lawn rake or comb vertikulerom.

Scouring the lawns that are older than two years. For young lawn rake enough to walk a little on top, without fanaticism and only when the ground is dry!

If the thickness of the batt is less than a centimeter, it is useful even lawn reduces water evaporation. Comb a lawn is not necessary.

Conventional rakes combed not all dry grass. The perfect tool for the job - a special lawn rake.

Results vertikulerom processing, at first glance, cause terror. After her place of emerald grass is brown stripe with rare blades. But the loosened soil in a few days become green with a bang, because vertical cutting decimates turf, rather than pulling out the grass by the roots - after the grass grows thick and forms a very dense coating.

4. Make aeration (not necessarily, but preferably, if it would be desirable to obtain high-level lawn). You can just pierce fork in places where "some yellow spots."

5. Mow the lawn. This procedure is better to spend a bit earlier. The purpose of the first cutting - making even the lawn, the same height. Spring lawn mowing to 5-6 centimeters.

6. Fertilize the lawn. First fertilizing the lawn in the spring is performed after the first mowing. For it is recommended to use special spring fertilizer (our experts prefer to complete). For the young grass is quite half the normal application rates.

Podkromku lawn in spring is always best done after warming up the earth and the beginning of the growing season.

bald spots

Overseeding is carried out after all the major work on the lawn after the winter care, when it becomes clear how much it is needed, and that bald spots just do not drag themselves. Usually waiting stable warm weather.

If the lawn young, bald spots that cause can be a part of grass mixtures.

Yakovetta

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Last year, the lawn pleased me, as it was quite thick and green, and now is as follows.

On the photos - the same lawn, before and after hibernation.

According FORUMHOUSE consultant, it is obvious that seeded mixture contains predominantly ryegrass and red fescue, bluegrass but it was not enough.

A mixture of bluegrass usually without encouraging long - problems begin after the first winter. There are two ways to remedy the situation shown in the photo:

• perestelit all turf with good bluegrass;
• podseyat ryegrass, and repeat this operation next spring.

Overseeding ryegrass usually do as bluegrass aggressive and displaces other herbs only from the age of two. And it develops slowly, and needs plenty of light and power. According to our experts, bluegrass overseeding for use only where in the initial mixture is not a large number of aggressive grasses such as ryegrass and tall fescue. Otherwise survive no more than 10% podseyannoy grass.

Bald spots seeded as follows: mix the seeds with sand or crumbly soil and sprinkle them the right places.

Seeds germinate best lawn surface. Preferably nedozaglubit than perezaglubit.

You can safely use the "old" seeds left over from the original planting - they begin to lose viability after only four years, and then slowly begin to diminish it - by 10-15 percent a year.

The main thing - do not store the seeds in a moist environment.

stagnant water

If some part of the lawn every spring stagnant water, you need to take serious measures.

Here is recommended to remove the turf, to align the repaired section of the ground and lay the sod back. With this operation, which is a little different from the usual laying turf, it is better not to delay and hold it at the earliest opportunity.

wormholes

It happens - the snow melts on the lawn, and a man sees on his lawn care which he gave so much effort, the terrible earth hills, done moles. On new lawns with that faced by virtually all who live in the area moles. Most often, any damage the lawn is not a cause. Beautiful loose "mole earth" can be used for any other purpose, you just need to carefully collect it from the lawn, or leveled directly on the lawn, and all. Over time, the hole in the earth itself will be delayed.

But it happens that moles harm the lawn so that it is difficult not to despair of the scale of the disaster.

Lera 55

Participant FORUMHOUSE

The snow came down, lawns in poor condition! In my opinion, we wintered all underground animals neighborhood. And then moves and burrows and piles of earth.

In the opinion of our experts, there is nothing wrong even here. On the contrary - the moles can say thank you!

Sodmaster

I believe that all of this has made two animals useful for the operation of the lawn: deep aeration and earthing. You have only a handful of scatter on the surface smooth thin layer.

Snow mold

Snow mold looks scary, but if the lawn is strong, consisting mainly of meadow grass, that is no reason to be upset.

Sodmaster

It is generally nonsense. Even the look will not have time, all will be delayed. If you are not lazy, you can poke a fork.

Another thing, if a part of the lawn grass mixture of 70%, which is not restored after the damage snow mold.

Here it is hoped that such a "musty" year not be repeated soon and podseyat original grass mixture. It is possible that overseeding will have to do for several years. Or hope for the mercy of nature, and completely redo the lawn, carefully choosing the composition of grass mixture.

conclusions

Normal, normally released after a winter lawn should:

• Dry by pulling it with excess water streams;
• prikatat;
• to comb;
• Make aeration;
• mow;
• Feed.

In problem cases should be treated in the section FORUMHOUSE «lawns"And ask for help from our experts. We recommend an article that will help you determine the choice of grass, and articles that teach care for your lawn. In our forum will help you to decide on a budget device inexpensive lawn. Also watch our video teaching lawn care.

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