Anyone who dreams of growing a thick and beautiful lawn on the local area has probably encountered several difficulties in a variety of lawn grass. In this article we will talk about the so-called "lawn grass for the lazy" - polevitsa pobegosnoy, discuss the rules of planting and plant care at home.
- a brief description of
- The advantages and disadvantages of such a lawn
- pros
- Minuses
- Use in herbal mixtures
- Choosing a place to plant
- Site preparation
- Sowing seeds
- Timing
- Seeding rate and depth
- Lawn care
- Watering
- Haircut and Mowing
- Mulching
- Top dressing
- How does winter endure
a brief description of
In the wild, bent field grows in eastern and southern Europe. The main feature of the culture is the fact that it can be sown both separately and in combination with other herbal mixtures.
The plant itself is undersized cereal, which reaches a height of 12 cm and can form a green carpet of creeping shoots. The ability of the shoots to root and the formation of new bushes is also highlighted, so for a short period of time the plant can spread throughout the territory that was sown, forming a light green thick carpet.
The advantages and disadvantages of such a lawn
Of course, like any other plant, the shovel-povitsa has its pros and cons, so consider them in more detail.
pros
The plant can grow on any type of soil, and is unpretentious to care. The field damage can be used to retain moisture in the soil, on garden soils where fruit trees grow, as the water flow has such a feature. Also, the grass protects the root system of plants, especially if they are still young and not strong.
Among the advantages, it is also possible to single out that a thick layer of green grass is capable of preventing damage to fruits that fall from trees.
The main advantage of the bent is its excellent decorative appearance. Also bentholes can quickly recover from damage, displace weed vegetation and grow quickly.
Grass is a winter-hardy crop.
Minuses
Among the minuses can be distinguished that walking on the lawn in the first year of sowing is undesirable.
If the summer is dry, it is necessary to regularly water the lawn.
In winter, the upper part of the lawn dies, and in order to recover, it’s necessary to take about a month for the field.
If you are planning to mow a lawn, then you only need to use a lawnmower, because mowing the bent grass with a trimmer will not work, as it has very soft stems.
Use in herbal mixtures
Despite the fact that the bent field can quickly displace some weeds and fully occupy the territory, it normally gets on with other grass plants, for example, a pastas gazeel is suitable for the company, thin field bogs, meadow fescue and red fescue. In tandem with the latter, you can successfully produce the strengthening of the slopes.
Choosing a place to plant
A field-popper favors to grow in a sunny place, and it will also normally feel in the scattered shadow that can form under fruit trees. It is not recommended to sow the plant in fully shaded areas.
Practically any type of soil is suitable for bent field: sandy, loamy, saline and acidic. However, if you sow polevitsu on well-fertilized garden soils, it grows very quickly and turns into a juicy thick carpet.
Site preparation
Preparation of the site for seeding the lawn is a long and troublesome procedure.
All garbage should be removed at the chosen place, it can be household garbage, slivers, stones, branches. Foreign objects should definitely be taken away and in no case should they be buried in the ground, because in the end you will get quite a lot of problems when you use specialized equipment.
It is better to remove weed vegetation with the help of specialized preparations, such as Reglon or Roundup, only they can completely destroy both the upper part of the plant and the root system.
The next stage of site preparation is digging up the area.If you plan to sow the lawn in the garden or flower beds, then you can dig up only one bayonet shovels, breaking the lumps.
In the event that the territory has not previously been processed, it is necessary to resort to a two-tier digging.
While digging, it is not superfluous to add manure or compost to the soil, if the soil is characterized by poor drainage, it should be additionally provided by pouring crushed stone or gravel under the lower soil layer during the two-tiered digging.
We should not forget about the alignment of the soil for planting a lawn. In order to implement this procedure, you should use a rake.
When the ground is fully leveled, it should be compacted using a roller or independently, in small steps. This is necessary in order to avoid subsidence after precipitation. Rammed earth will also contribute to better lawn rooting.
Sowing seeds
Despite the fact that the preparation of the soil was quite lengthy and troublesome, no problems should arise with the seeds. To sow them is much easier than plowing the ground.Let us consider in more detail the basic rules of how to sow a field povitsu.
Timing
The lawn is recommended to be sown at the end of April or mid-September. At this time, the field will better bush and form roots, which will contribute to the coolness in the spring and autumn periods, especially at night.
It is not recommended to sow bent in the summer hot time, as the seeds do not withstand even short-term drying of the soil and often die.
Seeding rate and depth
It is recommended to produce sowing during a period of quiet, calm weather, because the planting material is very small. Sealing seeds in soil is recommended to a depth of 1 cm.
After the seeds are embedded in the soil, the territory is tamped and watered abundantly.
Taking into account that the povitsa can be well grown and rooted with the help of shoots, the consumption per 1 m2 is about 1.5 g of seeds. If you plant more densely, the plant may lack the necessary nutrition and lighting, and if you save and land rarely - bald spots can form, over time they, of course, will grow, but you will have to wait.In order to produce sowing in the most accurate proportions, it is recommended to use a lawn planter, setting the seeding rate to a minimum.
Lawn care
It is easy enough to care for a shovel breech, but it is necessary to adhere to some rules and recommendations so that the state of the lawn is at a high level.
Watering
The polevitsa pobegodonnaya has a shallow root system, so if it feels the lack of moisture, this will affect its decorative effect, and the plant will begin to dry out. If summer is dry, then the plants will burn out, and their drying will begin in June. In order to prevent such a situation, it is necessary to provide abundant watering with sprinklers. Open sunny areas where vegetation grows should be watered daily, and if it is located in the shade with openings, it is recommended to water it once every three days.
Haircut and Mowing
As mentioned above, they cut the field of grass only with a lawnmower, you will not have any problems with it.
They cut the field number rather rarely, since the length of the shoots is characterized by slow growth and does not reach more than 12 cm.
If you want to provide a neat herbage, then you still have to cut it. It is necessary to make such a procedure 3 times per season, removing old, dried and overgrown shoots.
It is recommended to fully mow the barn almost under the root during the preparation for the winter, so that later in the new season the lawn does not look pitiable. If you do not mow the lawn, then in the spring you will not be able to do this, and you will have to observe unaesthetic dry, yellow grass for about a month, until the young shoots are fully grown.
Mulching
Mulching is recommended in the second year after sowing the seeds, in order to achieve better rooting of young shoots. In the form of mulch, it is recommended to use a mixture based on peat, sand and garden soil, which should be prepared in equal parts. This manipulation should be done at the end of April.
Top dressing
In the spring, lawns are recommended to be fed with compost, falling asleep with a thin layer and putting it into the ground with the help of a rake.Such a fertilizer will allow saturating the crop with nitrogen, which is necessary for the growing season. You can replace the compost with granulated or liquid fertilizers that will contain nitrogen. The following fertilizing is necessary to produce in July, use for this complex fertilizer.
How does winter endure
When the first snow falls, often the field leaves are still green and do not lose their decorative properties, but in the spring, out of the snow, it appears yellow and dried. There is nothing terrible in this, even if it seems to you that the lawn is not growing and just has died out - you should wait, after a while you will see the first green. Since the plant is cold-resistant, it is not necessary to specifically protect the bent grass from low temperatures. Even if some bushes freeze out, in a short time, the field leaves will tighten their escaped voids.
Thus, the povitsa pobegodonnaya has many advantages over other lawn plants: it is easy to take care of it, it remains green for a long time and quickly grows.You will have to try only during the preparation of the soil for sowing, and in the future a green lawn with minimal effort and time will please you annually.
