Fresh Lawn Everytime : A Desire

How Can We Overlook Fresh Lawn Everyday?

We all seek for some attractive and charming views to be seen by our eyes on a regular basis. For this lawn is always the  best and most needed priority. A natural green covered area (

morever like a green carpet)for our home areas outside to make it look beautifully managed  is a desire of most of us, which we generally referred to as a "lawn" in one word sense. We can see lawn in many office areas, playground areas, free spaces, and mostly in garden areas (both formal and informal ones). As we all know, lawn is the first preference , before we start a garden because after lawns' establishment only , we can fix all the attractive elements later such as flowers, fountains, fences, statues, climbers, shrubs, etc.; thereby lawn is called as the "heart of the garden". 

Besides making any place attractive and charming, lawn is the source which we prefer both emotionally and spiritually as being humans. Our daily hectic schedules and much some sorts of stress in the mind can be relieved by sitting in a lawn for some hours. In addition to that, we can conduct different kinds of social gatherings and parties in a lawn area. To be honest, our eyes get well solace after viewing. It also encourages one to maintain sanitation in that area.

Lawn is called by several names. A grass carpet which is about 5 cm thickness is referred to as turf, which is the another name of lawn. It is also called as pitch, depending on the use and sorts of planting. There are various types of lawn that we get from the grasses during warm and cool season both. The types of grasses during warm season include: bermuda grass, japanese grass / korean grass, bahia grass, etc. and likewise the grasses during cool season are : tall fescue, annual  bluegrass, annual ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, etc. All these lawns are preferred according to the suitability by the people.

After these lawns are well established in our specified area, how can we keep them fresh like before everytime? The tasks to be performed are not difficult, they are simpler, which we are discussing now. 

Mowing is necessary step to be done which simply means cutting of lawn grass to remove mulching effect. This avoids the lower parts of plants looking like decayed. There are intervals of times in different seasons  for mowing like rainy and winter season 7-10 days, spring season: 15 days and that of summer is 1 month. Types of grass used also denotes the mowing period. One should know that newly planted lawn is not mowed but trimmed with scythe.

Rolling is the anther step done just after mowing to avoid the growth of plants in upright position.It should be not done in case of wet soil , as it destructs the grass physically. Sweeping is the necessary step to keep clean and remove all the cut grasses after mowing and other dirt like fallen and broken leaves, debris, etc. Everyday , sweeping is better for sanitation.

Irrigation should be done, according to its needed frequency and that frequency depends upon the season. soil type and grasses type used. (Korean grass needs more water, sandy soil needs more water, etc) Generally we find flood  irrigation is done , but to be honest, sprinkler irrigation is best. Irrigation is not needed in case of rainy season , but needed much in dry periods.

Weed control is a factor  to supervise more often. To be clear, regular mowing controls the weed population. In case of small areas , hand weeding is possible. Hand weeding is best for monocot weeds and 2,4-D can be used for dicot weed.

Fertilization is much needed option to carry out. If we apply regular fertilizers, it keeps the grass to grow properly and maintain its fresh color all the time. During rainy and spring  season, apply 50-60 g/sq m of mixture of 2 parts of CAN:1 part SSP, 1 part of pottasium sulphate. , that maintains the healthy growth of grass. You can also spray the urea in a ratio of 30 g/10 litre of water for the growth of grass. 

Scrapping of lawn is practised in old lawn with a motive to renovate the old lawn. It is generally done after 3-4 years  during the month of summer ( during  June) ,where the lawn is scrapped completely with the help of khurpi and other tools. Liming is also done once a year at the rate of 250gm/m sq  but in the exception of alkaline soil. And yes, watering should be done immediately after liming.

As mentioned above , by all such smaller efforts on a regular basis , we can keep our preferred areas with a lawn in a complete fresh and lush green color all the time!