Paths from the lawn grass between the beds with their own hands
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Do-it-yourself lawn in the garden - a reasonable compromise
No landscape composition can be imagined without a lawn. After all, it not only pleases the eye with fresh greens, but also serves as a background and setting for flower beds, a recreation ground or country games in the open air, and also creates a comfortable microclimate in the garden area.
However, according to popular belief, every summer resident should choose what is more important for him-lawn or garden. Say, where the lawn is broken, garden beds are not the place, and vice versa. Only everything is not so unambiguous. And the experience of our author confirms that a compromise is possible in this case.
All gardeners strive to provide the cultivated crops with optimal conditions for growth and development. And who will take care of you, your rest and comfort, if not yourself? So that's how we once thought and decided to sow the grass lawn paths.
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Border
The beds were separated from the lawn by a plastic lawn border, which is sold in any garden center. The border should rise above the path at the level of mowing grass, buried it in depth at 15 cm, so that the roots of the grass do not oppress the vegetable crops. The width of the rows was made a little narrower than the two widths of the lawnmower (about 70 cm), so that it would be possible to patch the tracks in two passes (there and back). For the convenience of care for plants, the width of the beds was determined about a meter. To organize a crop rotation, four beds were broken.
Now it is much more convenient to look after plants. And if you want to rest during work, you can drop to your knees or sit on a soft green carpet of grass and keep the clothes and shoes clean at the same time.
Thanks to such green paths on the site, the beds are now not tattered, they look well-groomed and beautiful. The soil on them is so light and fluffy that the decision on the need to water plants is accepted, simply by immersing your finger in the ground on 5-7, see.
Watering beds
Watering is best to arrange a drip. This reduces labor costs and allows you to keep the soil loose, moisture and air permeable.
In addition, water comes to the roots warmed and does not fall on the leaves, which prevents the development of fungal infections on the site. The trunk pipe was laid in such a way that it was possible to make tap-off tapes with separate valves for each bed. Thanks to such valves, watering for each row is now individually adjusted. Usually there are only two taps for one bed.
Soil fertilization
To improve soil fertility, as is known, it is necessary to replenish regularly with mineral and organic substances, to support its cloddy structure, air permeability and moisture capacity. Of course, you can use also purchased mineral fertilizers, but we still prefer organic.
Therefore, we sow on the beds of siderates and fertilize the soil with mown grass grass. In particular, after harvesting the garlic in July, we manage to grow and repair the green peas first, and then the phacelia. After harvesting the late crops and cleaning the beds from the plant residues, fill in the 15-centimeter layer of mown grass and seal it in the soil.
Grass, like manure, contains the full range of organic compounds and minerals necessary for plants. But in the mown grass, unlike the manure, there is no weed seed.
Grass can be fertilized with any vegetable crops. Enriched so the soil should be regularly watered and mulched to maintain a sufficiently high humidity. Sometimes we use "emochki" (a complex of strains of useful microorganisms).
In the autumn you can pour out the fallen leaves on the bed, under it the grass continues to rot all winter. If during the planting of early vegetables in the soil still visible remains of non-interrupted leaves and grass, then by summer all the organic mass of the soil is "fully assimilated", and the proliferating worms will diligently soil the soil and process the last year's leaves in the humus.
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Weed control
Regular mowing of spacing minimizes the amount of weeds in the beds and grassy paths. In this case, the seeds can only enter the site with wind or bird droppings. And if this happens, we get rid of them by mulching beds with mown grass. And the most sturdy specimens are removed with a Fokine flat-cutter.
Lighting: the tandem of the sun and shadow
For normal development, most vegetables need good lighting. But grassy grasses in the summer heat prefer partial shade. To help both of them get what they need, we plant tall tomatoes or cucumbers so that they obscure paths with grass. You can even slightly tilt the stakes supporting the plants, toward the paths. Neither through passage nor mowing such living shading "curtains" do not interfere.
Lawn in the garden
Lawn can serve a good service and your garden.
The grass cover, like a mulch, supports an intrasoil microclimate. In this case, the grass roots are located mainly at the surface of the earth and do not compete for resources with a deeper root system of fruit trees. Trees at the same time receive "mulch", and grass - a comfortable for her shadow from the trees. Even in the July heat, the lawn under the trees remains juicy and green.
Another bonus from this neighborhood: you can not be afraid that ripe fruits, showered, become unsuitable for use. Even peaches, falling from a tree to the grass, do not break up and remain clean. True, this elastic cover creates only a lawn with a cutting height of at least 4 cm.
Of course, the described method is not suitable for farming, but for private plots it is very convenient. Our long experience is a confirmation of this.
© Author: Andrey ROMANOV
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I respect the tracks made of tiles, especially large ones, but I still haven't figured out how to lay smooth turns with such tiles. So he preferred the combined version - instead of tiles, he took wood, toned it and impregnated it with a composition to protect it from moisture, and placed a dusting between the panels. As a result, it was not necessary to lift the structure above the lawn: excess water goes directly through it. As a child, I loved to play a miniature railway, and the new track looks like sleepers - it's beautiful! And I also think that it’s worth adding some elements of the Japanese garden around — it should go well together.