You’re dreaming of a beautiful lawn in your garden? You want to plant grass? Follow the tips below for you to succeed in sowing your lawn.
Provide the following equipment: a garden fork, a spade, a spade, a claw to 4 teeth and a roll. Expect also a wheelbarrow, a tiller, a rake and a hand spreader or fertilizer.
1) Site preparation
* With a spade or tiller, turn the soil over 25 cm deep.
* Remove vegetation with rake and break up clods
* Level the ground with your shovel
* With the roller, roll the ground
* With the rake, rake the soil about 3 cm thick. Repeat this process several times to obtain a very fine earth.
2) Type of grass
It is necessary to choose a lawn based on the use you will make: A turf for sports (football …), use a lawn that is relatively resistant. If you want a beautiful lawn, buy turf English.
In addition, you must also take into account the sunshine in your garden. If the grass is heavily sunny, buy a lawn rustic Mediterranean. By cons, if the sun can, choose a shade grass.
3) Planting Period
Are sown in spring and fall. It avoids the bitter cold of winter.
To sow the grass, the land of your garden should be hot and should be good weather. Do not plant where there is too much wind or the weather is rain.
In northern France, the planting season turf is from April to late May and in September. As for the South, the month in which it is possible to sow the grass is from February through May and September to late November.
4) Sow a lawn
* Take a box and mix all the seeds
* Sow regularly add more seeds on the edges for marking the borders
* With your rake, cover the seeds lightly
* Move the roller to flatten the good seeds in the ground
* Sprinkle finely that do not form blocks of land
* Wait at least 1 month until you see the grass
