Technology laying coil lawn

Laying roll lawn - one of the ways to quickly improve the territory of the site or cottages with their own hands.

Knowing how to choose and install a lawn covering, you can quickly create turfed grounds, decorate a garden or yard.

What is it?

Today, turf is an alternative to hard work to create a dense and high-quality turf cover. The device rolls has no significant differences from live grass. The only difference is that highly specialized farms are involved in growing the lawn. It takes about three years to get a green carpet of grass from seeds, which can be used for home improvement. Grown grass layers are rolled into rolls, stored and sold to customers, since such a product is characterized by short shelf life.

Each turf layer has a mesh base, which is highly durable.

How not to make a mistake when choosing

Laying grass cover on the site provides for the selection of high-quality roll lawn and its correct calculation.

Correct calculation

You can not make the purchase of rolled turf offhand, so that there is no excess or do not have to buy more. It is necessary to carry out the counting by measuring the parameters of the future green lawn and calculating the total area.

For example, the length of the section is 5 m, width is 4 m, then the area is 20 square meters. m. This is the area of ​​the future lawn.

If the site has a flat terrain, without any bends and flower beds, for an accurate calculation of the rolls add another 5% of the area. Laying turf on a plot with a curved geometry has a different counting technology. 10% is added to the total area of ​​the lawn, since the amount of waste will be large. The correct quadrature calculation will help calculate the correct number of bays. If the conditional width of one roll of grass is 0.5 m, and the length is 2 m, then its area: 0.5x2 = 1 square meter. This means that one roll will be needed per meter square of the site, 20 rolls will be necessary for 20 squares, etc.

Choosing a turf

The main criterion for the selection of turf cover is its quality. And all the rolls offered in stores have the same look. The average width of the turf varies in the region of 40-60 cm, and its length is 190-215 cm. The height of the grass is about 5-7 cm with a layer of the root system - from 2 cm and more.

Depending on the manufacturer, the weight of a single rug can be 15-30 kg. The quality of the lawn is checked by the side slice.

An in-depth study of the quality of sod provides for an assessment of:

• the presence of weeds among the grass blades;
• uniformity of grass cover (no baldness);
• root density.

Experts recommend to stop the selection on turf rolls with a neat side cut, which has the same thickness of the root system and grass along the entire length of the seam,tightly woven roots without gaps.

Soil preparation

The lack of high-quality preparation of the site under the lawn leads to the fact that the lawn with rolled turf loses its attractive appearance. Initially, it is worthwhile to take care of cleaning the area from stumps and various debris (especially construction, which is often buried in the soil). Also removed all vegetation along with rhizomes. Since weeds tend to reappear, it is important to carry out herbicidal treatment using special means in the places where they accumulate.

At the subsequent stage, it is necessary to dig the earth with a shovel or a cultivator so that no earth lumps more than 2 cm in diameter remain. If necessary, you can make additional components that enhance fertility, improve the structure of the soil and reduce acidity.

A week before laying the turf in the soil fertilizer is applied, approximately 50 g per 1 sq. Km. m and mix thoroughly with the soil. Preparation is completed by ramming in dry weather. Special roller aligns and compacts the surface of the site. The height of the fertile layer after rolling should be at least 10 cm, and the level of the rolled soil should be a few centimeters below the height of the track.

Styling Features

Experts recommend to acquire a grassy covering in the spring, in the summer or in the early autumn. To the question of how to lay a roll lawn, you need to approach with full responsibility.

How to lay?

Starting work is recommended immediately after the purchase of turf. Lawn rolls unfold with utmost care, laying them in a straight line. The first stratum is key in all the work, since all the rest will be leveled on it. Each rug is laid on a board, which will prevent the feet from sodding, and then tamped to contact the roots and soil. Rarely allowed light tamping roller, which will remove excess air and create a fit.

Laying out the next rows of turf takes place according to the principle of brickwork: the joints of the second row should fall in the middle of the plates of the first row, etc. This principle will allow the turf to settle down much better. The lawn lawn device also provides for the absence of overlaps.

Rows should tightly abut each other, avoiding discrepancies of more than 1 cm.

The lawn device is carried out in cool and dry weather according to the technology. In the heat of watering increases several times. Plots that account for the angles of beds are also not bypassed. Grass layers are rolled over them, and then carefully cut off the excess with a knife.

How to save roll

Purchase of grass cover should occur immediately before laying. It is often recommended to lay the plates for one, maximum two days from the time of cutting and delivery to the customer.

Before laying the turf must be stored in a cool, dark room, as direct sunlight warms the grass, provoking its yellowness and quick death. To prevent this, rolls are watered.

When laying the turf is delayed for a few more days, resorted to rolling plates and irrigation work. This is a fairly time-consuming process that will prolong the life of vegetation for another couple of days.

What to do after laying?

Forming a common area, doing the treatment of seams. Each seam and butt obtained is spilled with a fertile mixture of soil and sand. Then provide abundant watering around the perimeter of the site.

These manipulations guarantee a quick survival of the sod roots and the sod itself to the soil. Subsequent watering is carried out with an interval of 3-5 days, but in hot and dry times abundant daily watering is recommended. Attention should be paid to the natural irrigation of the lawn and avoid over-irrigation.

After a couple of weeks from laying turf, you can make the first mowing.The tips of the grass mow gently, across the direction of the grass plates. Starting from the second year, the lawn is mowed regularly, as needed. Ideally, the height of the grass should reach the mark up to 5 cm. Approximately a month after laying, you can start walking on the lawn, on which the grass cover should already settle down.

Advantages and disadvantages

Rolled lawn has a lot of advantages compared to, for example, with the seed. Of them:

• quick survival on the new site;
• possibility of laying during the time from the beginning of spring to late autumn;
• resistance to frost, drought;
• easy care, as the lawn cover for several seasons does not let through weeds;
• attractive appearance from the first day of installation;
• the health benefits of humans, especially allergies;
• durability with quality care.

Despite the large number of advantages, the turf has some drawbacks, such as:

• quite high cost;
• low grass growth in sunny places;
• shorter service life than the seed.

In any case, the turf is the only way to improve your own yard and enjoy fresh green grass without weeds in the shortest possible time.