Lawn with his own hands

green manicured lawn in front of the house, next to the flower beds, garden with a fountain and children playing - it all like a dream.Grass, made by hand in the country, will allow to realize all the fantasies and save money.

Stages arrangement lawn

Any job that you want to successfully complete, begins with planning.The first thing will have to decide - is the location of the lawn at the cottage and its purpose.The preferred arrangement of the lawn area is sunny or lightly shaded place, as in the photo, which has a slight slope to drain rain water.

From what decision you take will depend on the form of the lawn that you equip.

Lawns are:

• ground - the most expensive and whimsical lawn that requires careful maintenance and ideal surface, but its decorative justify spent money and time.
• Ordinary
  - the most common type.It is resistant to stress and unpretentious, a picnic held on such a pitch, will not lead to its destruction.
• Moorish - suitable mainly for decoration of large areas.It consists of a large number of herbs and flowers that change each other during the season.
• Round - is a ready layer of vegetation requires a minimal amount of effort for the arrangement of the site.

Seeding lawn with his own hands

Seeds for lawn are cheaper than ready turf, but turn them into a finished coating difficult, and time for this we need more.Seeded lawn will be beautiful and full until the next year.Turf needs a two-week adaptation, during which on it is not recommended to go.After that, it becomes a full-fledged universal coverage with high decorative.

lawns arranging, which is to be done with his own hands, begins with the preparation of the soil.First you need to remove debris, clean the area of ​​weeds and dig up a few times to be able to qualitatively level the rake land.Then tamped the ground that, in future, when sprout grass, the land is not prominaetsya and was flat (see. Video tutorial).Then a little loosened the earth with a rake.

lawn Equipping the country with their own hands, according to the experts recommend to mix the seeds with sand for an even sowing.After this you should sow the seeds from one end of the site and go for sowing, not to trample the seeds.After sowing the ground again slightly loosened with a rake.

last stage.After sowing the need to qualitatively compacted earth to the seeds blew the wind or washed away by rain.To do this, use a special ice rink is in the video.At the end of the work, the crops must be carefully, but quality to water.

Laying turf

To put quality turf with his hands after cleaning, digging and leveling the site, rolls gently spread out on the prepared surface.

If you need a shaped lawn or if an area is different from a piece of roll, you can cut, cut it, to make the cut side of the place where lacking.

Once completed the formation of the lawn, it, too, is a little roller compacted and abundantly watered.At first, the turf will need close attention.

To roll and look decorative feast for the eyes, it must be periodically watered, cut and feed.

If you after reading the article still raises the question of how to make the lawn with his own hands, a photo and video work stages will give you a visual response.Here you can ask all the questions on the subject and get good advice specialists and just experienced gardeners.

Photos lawn at their summer cottage

Video planting lawn with his own hands