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About the country. Lawn! Lawn! Lawn!
So, there was spring 2006. I suffered the selection of plants and reflections on the beautiful, but in parallel to do what is not in doubt and had to be done regardless of the style of the site. I planted a green fence and tried to lay the lawn. However, kumquat half of the area I was still littered with debris, so I'm going to sow lawn only on the part where the house stood. Around the soil has been leveled an area of approximately 8 acres.
Even in gardening lawn has long been a normal part of the landscape. Although until recently attitude was different. Neighbor, one of the first to build a house on the block - only 10 years ago, and has created a beautiful landscape with a pond, a weeping willow over the water and conifers in the background, telling me that gardeners who passed by her site, pulled neck, peering through another low hedges, and saw the lawn, shaking kumquat their heads in disapproval.
Now lawn, covered with grass, is practically at each site. But just lawn I did not need. I dreamed of the classic large lawn provides kumquat a basis for findings landscape designer - pond, alpine and just groups of ornamental shrubs.
On the lawn at the time I did not know anything. Grow lawn? Yes, no question. It's just a piece of land, covered with close-cropped kumquat grass. However, it was necessary to acquire at least a basic knowledge. I bought the book. I'll tell you that if you have a lawn in the area at least the size of a handkerchief, this book should kumquat be in your library.
I began to read. Oh, it turns out, lawns are different. That velvet, gentle and soft, which existed in my imagination, called parterre. This is the lawn of the highest quality, kumquat but it turned out that it is impossible to go - he can not stand trampling, and is intended to evoke envy of the neighbors kumquat staring at. No, I'm not happy - the lawn is needed in order to for it can be run, it is possible to sunbathe, play with a dog - and to him of nothing. This lawn called sport. It differed from the parterre composition of herbs that it must grow.
Seeds for lawn sports were bought kumquat in the nearest garden center. It turned out that for the first eight acres need 30 kg of seeds! With some difficulty downloading the three desyatikilogrammovyh kraft bag in the trunk, I brought them home and began to read about the preparation of the soil before sowing.
Surprises began immediately. It turned out that after digging and leveling the land it must roll on! And roll it up to a density such that it does not remain on the trail of an adult's leg. Rolled down her rink. I had never seen rollers lawn. Population survey in horticulture showed that the self-made ice rink is the chairman. It was a usual metal barrel and attached to the sides of the handle. In the barrel filled water, increasing its weight, and rolled on the ground. Scrounge this is necessary for the future happiness of the device, I organized the delivery (or rather, dokatku) it to the site with the help of the Uzbeks, and the work began. Rink rolled, then trimming the soil with a rake, then rolled again. Surface began to seem relatively flat.
North was nominated for the morning. In accordance with the instructions from the book, I divided the seeds into two equal parts. Half of it was necessary to sow portion passing along a second half - moving transversely, at right angles to the original direction of movement.
The weather was hot, there was no rain. Germination was not too. Every morning I left the house and looked at the ground. No-Th-th! Single sprouts. But every time I would find on the future site of the lawn more birds coming for breakfast. Busily hopping on the ground, they cheerfully ate the seeds of my herbs. I ran through the area, drove away them away, but the manger kumquat with so many food attracted them like a magnet. Seedlings did not come.
The land was dry as powder, I began to pour it in the morning and evening. Finally, the first green shoots. kumquat But the joy was premature. It was not the grass. They were weeds. Of course, the soil dug up, but it left a lot of seeds of wild grasses and rhizome pieces. So they started to grow in the first place.
Somewhere in about ten days, when I was desperate to wait for some result, the night was warm rain, and in the morning all the space in the future of the lawn were covered with a thin needles of young blades of grass. Hooray! This is the first shoots.
Grass rose unevenly. Somewhere water got more somewhere - less. Gradually the number of tons
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