Wintering lawn care: spring-summer
Contents ✓
- ✓ Lawn care as soon as the snow comes off
- ✓ Forewarned is forearmed
- ✓ Rolling
- ✓ Why pierce grass flooring?
- ✓ If there are puddles
- ✓ Do I need to water in the spring?
- ✓ Lawn compaction rules
- ✓ Fertilizers for lawn
- ✓ It's time to fight weeds
- ✓ Snow is gone - mold remains
- ✓ First haircut
- ✓ CARE OF THE LAWN AFTER WINTER - VIDEO
HOW TO CARE THE LAWN AFTER WINTER
Perhaps the most difficult period for the lawn is wintering. After a frosty, lingering winter, even a good grass stand can suffer.
Lawn care as soon as the snow comes off
Lawn care begins with the first warm rays of the spring sun, under which the snow melts. This does not happen quickly, the process drags on for a couple of weeks. Therefore, as soon as a subtle grass appeared, you need to get down to business immediately. In places where the snow does not want to melt (it has compacted, a snowdrift has begun in winter, a shadow is falling), it needs to be helped. You can sprinkle with ash or peat (use the fact that the sun's rays quickly heat a dark surface) or scatter evenly over the area with a shovel. Due to temperature changes - during the day plus and minus at night - an ice crust may form on the lawn, “blocking oxygen” in the grass. It must be destroyed by breaking a rake.
Forewarned is forearmed
Once the weather is warm, it's time to work with the lawn. First, evaluate his condition. Walk less along the grass cover: the earth is soft from excess moisture, and forcing it through can lead to the formation of holes and damage to the lawn. If work can be started, take a rake and aim a marafet - rake leaves that have fallen over the fall and winter, comb out dead grass. Such cleaning will allow an objective study of the "health" of the lawn.
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Rolling
When water freezes, a “rupture” of the top layer of the lawn can occur - ice tears off the root system and the grass stand rises. To avoid such a nuisance, you need to carry out rolling. To do this, use rollers - purchased or self-made. If at hand there is neither one nor the other, you can pour water into a 200-liter barrel (with a lid) and ride around the site.
Why pierce grass flooring?
The second most important operation is aeration, which allows air to access the roots of plants. To do this is quite simple: you need to pierce the sod with thin pins. If the area of the lawn is solid and it should be for many years, it is worth buying an aerator in a specialized store. Although you can do everything yourself - in the old wooden mop you fill up long thin nails and use this hedgehog to pierce the sod: the depth of punctures is at least 10-15 cm. Try to have 30 to 50 punctures on each square meter - the older the lawn, the more. The lawn of the second year of life with uncompacted soil can not be disturbed.
If there are puddles
The following may happen: last year, the lawn that was perfectly even last year sank somewhere, rose somewhere, which will undoubtedly lead to the formation of irregularities that are invisible to the eye, where water stagnates. The first sign of this is areas with "suffocated" grass - grass stands in such places falls out, and bald spots form. The best way to detect them is to look at these areas after rain or heavy watering of the lawn. They will differ in that they retain water, which absorbs here more slowly than in general on the lawn.
What to do? First, roll these places, and then make deep punctures, allowing the water to gradually dissolve. Such simple events will help, but if the puddle still remains, you need to pour the earth.
To do this, part of the lawn is carefully cut out, the soil under it is loosened and a mixture of peat and sand is poured into the niche formed (1: 1), and then thoroughly trampled. Having returned a lawn into place, it is necessary to squeeze it to the level of the next turf.
Do I need to water in the spring?
Most often, in the spring there is enough moisture, but in the absence of rain, watering is necessary, as well as after fertilizing. Water should not only moisten the young grass, but penetrate to the depth of the main mass of roots. Waterlogging is not worth it.
Lawn compaction rules
If a grass stand has fallen in places on the lawn, it is necessary to carry out its “compaction” - to sow bald spots. And before that, trim the grass and clean the area to be sealed with a trimmer or lawn mower at the lowest cut. After a rake or ploskorez loosen the top layer of soil to a depth of 3-5 cm. Fertilize - the full dose, as when sowing. Rake them up and level the soil.
Prepare the seeds for sowing - make a scarification, violate the integrity of the seed coat. To do this, they are immersed in a linen bag for 5 seconds in hot (95 degrees) water, then for the same time - in cool (2 degrees). The procedure is repeated 4-6 times.
Sow the seeds at the recommended rate. Lightly cover them with a rake of 1-1, 5 cm and mulch, pouring 1 cm of peat in a mixture with sand.
Pack the sown area. Water the entire lawn.
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Fertilizers for lawn
From winter, the lawn comes out weakened, so in the spring it is so important to feed the lawn in a timely manner.
The first element is nitrogen. It should be introduced during the spring resumption of the growing season. To determine this point is simple - tuck a small “bush” of grass: if white threads are visible among the roots, then the plant has woken up. It is most effective to use multicomponent mixtures, in the composition of which there is everything necessary. You can purchase several packages of specialized fertilizers. You can be content with the purchase of nitrophosphate containing equal parts nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. For each square meter, 30-50 g is applied. If there is no complex fertilizer at hand, then monosyllables (per 1 sq. M) can be dispensed with: superphosphate 15-20 g, potassium chloride 10-15 g, urea 10-15 If the lawn is 3-4 years old, then I recommend increasing the dose by 30-50%. After this, harrowing and watering are mandatory.
Supporters of organic farming can use natural fertilizers - compost or herbal infusion, wood ash. After adding organics, everything should be properly leveled with a rake to crush the lumps of compost and spread evenly over the surface. Then - water carefully.
Note
If the composition of the grass stand contains legumes (clover), then the use of nitrogen fertilizers should be abandoned, or at least reduce the dose by 2-3 times.
It's time to fight weeds
If unneeded vegetation appears on the lawn, chemical weeding is the most effective effective method. Remember that when choosing herbicides, the composition of the grass stand is considered - bean or cereal. If the lawn is legume (white clover), graminicides, such as Fusilad, are used to suppress cereal weeds. If the lawn is cereal - use herbicides that destroy dicotyledonous weeds ("Agritoks"). If, when sowing, a multicomponent mixture was used and by the spring there are legumes and cereals, then the chemical regiments will have to be abandoned. Then weed control must be done manually or through multiple haircuts. Provided that the lawn is 4-5 years old and the bean component has begun to disappear, and the weeds are ready to fill everything, you can sacrifice clover, leaving the cereal.
Snow is gone - mold remains
After the snow melts on the lawn, foci of snow mold (fusarium) can be found - an insidious disease, a sign of which is a white coating covering the leaves. It is necessary to comb out the affected area, aerate and feed it, and to insure against loss of grass stand, apply the fungicide “Fundazol”.
First haircut
To achieve maximum tillering of lawn grasses, I recommend not to delay it with the first mowing, because the grass costs 1-5 cm to rise above the accepted standard of height (usually 2-5 cm), as it will have to be cut again.
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CARE OF THE LAWN AFTER WINTER - VIDEO
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