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- Creating and maintaining ornamental lawns - this is how you do it right
- Professional soil preparation sets the course - that's how it works
- So the sowing - tips for a rapid germination succeed
- Cultivating lawns - tips for a vital growth
- Tips & Tricks
Creating and maintaining ornamental lawns - this is how you do it right
Where an ornamental lawn is created, the gardener has in the first place an optimal aesthetics in mind. He should thrive dense, as a rich green carpet. How to create and maintain the premium version of a lawn, we explain here.
Professional soil preparation sets the course - that's how it works
As long as the soil temperature does not fall below the 8-degree mark, the climatic conditions for the installation of a decorative lawn are given. So that the soil can settle at the chosen location, soil preparation takes place about 14 days before sowing. Here's how to do it:
Loamy clay soil is optimized with fine-grained sand, while sandy soil is improved by mature compost. Heavily leached soil receives a mineral organic or purely organic starter.
So the sowing - tips for a rapid germination succeed
After the soil was allowed to rest for 14 days, start the sowing. Choose a day with dry weather. In the first step, loosen the upper layer of soil again to weed the last nasewe weeds. Ideally, you should distribute the ornamental lawn seed with a spreading trolley in the longitudinal and transverse directions. This is how it continues:
Until the seeds are germinated, the focus of the maintenance work is the repeated irrigation of the area. Set the lawn sprinkler on the finest water jet.
Cultivating lawns - tips for a vital growth
If the germination of the sowing proceeds on schedule, the first grasses will sprout within 8 to 21 days. Be patient with the first grass clippings until the stems reach a height of 10 centimeters. The first pass should not cut more than a third. What matters in the care of ornamental lawns:
A mossy and weedy lawn will bring you back to perfection by scarifying, aerating, sanding and fertilizing the green area. If the pH falls below 5.5, a well-measured dose of lime will compensate.
Tips & Tricks
You want a velvety-green ornamental lawn in one day? To fulfill this wish, you do not have to try a lawn fairy. Instead, you simply lay a turf in premium quality. The turf is delivered in rolls laid out on the prepared surface like a carpet.