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How to grow lawn garss- for lush green look [2022]

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How to grow lawn grass [2022]

The ‘how to grow lawn grass is the main task and its central part of the garden. It provides green canvasing to the whole garden. And the rest of the garden is getting arranges surrounding it. you need to plant a lawn grass type as per your requirement means is it going to used for play are or general-purpose. If for general-purpose soft regular lawns grass is ok (i.e.Selection one, Rough lawn).

Today we are on the topic of how to grow lawn grass. In the last article, we just learned how to pave the borders. Bricks and paver blocks shape the overall look of the Garden. Now we start or head to planting work.

Whenever you start to learn how to grow lawn grass one thing is to keep in mind that two periods of the year are good to grow a lawn. One is in the summer and the other is

How to grow lawn grass- consists of two parts

One is the green part and the other is the technical part.

Now you guys will say what is the green part and what is technical part let me explain it.

1. Green part: –

This means whatever we plant and which grows over time for example planting a Tree, Shrub, growing lawn grass, etc.

2. Technical part

It means the basic work of making soil leveling, digging, plowing, and making Paver block fitting. And some civil work like making of Fountain, water bodies for some aquatic plants, fishpond, etc.

A lush green lawn grass

Today we learn to plant Garden lawns. Because in most cases a typical Garden consists of 50 To 60 percent lawn area.

And it also takes time to grow if you saw it by planting lawn cuttings from any other established healthy lawn.

Or you may buy readymade lawn blocks available in the market or by seed spreading also.

We grow lawn as the first part of the garden green work.  Because it took around 2 to 3 months for a complete grown green cover like Look. Which will not have vacant spaces in between lawn plants. 

You get the complete green clover-like appearance after sawing the lawn in and around 2-3 months in tropical weather.

Some warm weather suits it when you plant a lawn. In some weather conditions, it may take 4-5 months also.

Lawn development (How to grow lawn grass) consists of three steps as below:

The first step for growing lawn grass is base Fertilization (Fertilization of the soil).

The second is insect and termite treatment to soil and the third is sawing off the lawn.

The fourth step is regular watering.

And the last step is loan mowing by lawnmower machines on regular basis.

After following the above steps you get the complete green carpet-like lawn at the end of these practices. The basis of in which weather format you are planting a lawn may stretch the growth of the lawn.

So sometimes it may 4 to 5 months to take a complete appearance.

Now, why do we choose to plant a lawn first? Because in most cases a typical Garden consists of 50 To 60 percent of lawn area.

    1.   Fertilization of the soil for growing lawn grass

Now we discuss/ understand the fast step that Fertilization of the soil before planting a lawn.  We just studied and understood the basic step of land preparation in the previous article here in this blog.  So you may find the detailed land preparation in that article.

Here we have completely prepared land as we learned in the past article. 

Meanwhile, we have to spread some part of FYM that is farm Yard manure. “Matlab desi animal ke Gobar mein se Bani Hui Sukhi Khad” and DAP is a chemical granule fertilizer that has the full form of Di Ammonium phosphate.  

This is considered useful as a base fertilizer for planting lawns in any crop on the farms. 

It has a slow-releasing capacity.  So meanwhile it provides a parallel supplement of nutrients to the lawn as it develops daily.

The requirement for the area can be calculated as below 

Approximately 2 kg DAP and 10-15 kg FYM for the area of 

10 x 10 feet = 100 square feet area. 

It’s a general base fertilizer requirement.  But as we discussed soil here in the previous article that how to prepare your Soil before starting a Garden.  

At their, we discussed the soil testing report which we get after the testing of our Soil.  So you may have different requirements for the fertilization of your soil.

Then you need to follow those fertilizer recommendations instead of the ideal dose described here.

   2.   Clear soil from insects

The second step is removing insects from the soil, termites etcetera, etc. For removal use some insecticides which are available on the market. And go to the nearest agro pesticides supplier/vendor and ask them for termite removal chemicals and application dose it before applying it to your Garden.

If you have children at your home you have to be careful while using these chemicals. As they are poisonous, so after each use put it in a lock and key situation or storage. If not completely used.  And if used completely then dump the pacing properly from out of reach of the children.

You can also ask a pesticide vendor for its detail and storage guidelines. As you may have questions that why doing Or following this step. We are especially doing this step for the removal of termites which are usually found in most soils.

If we do not remove this termite from this soil it will eat the roots of the newly planted lawn cuttings. And if we grow lawns by seeds then why do we need this termite application? So here I am explaining that if you grow by seed  It’ll grow as a baby plant in the future. 

And that plant also has a root zone, it can be damaged by termites. So whatever planting methods of lawn are but we need to follow this step. In most Indian soils termites are present.

There is the other problem of fungal infection that may also occur. As per experience, it is never found usually in it but if you found it you may treat the soil with fungicide.

   3. Sawing off the lawn grass

We usually in India have the warm seasons grasses for lawn.

Due to the warm weather of the country for around 8 to 9 months a year atmosphere was found warm except for bad rainstorms and a few months of winter.

You can first see the lawn by planting grass seed as there is some seed spraying technique also available.

This technique is useful in the case of large areas and to get uniform growth of the lawn.

For example, the Golf course lawn development which usually consists of large lawn areas.

And when you are growing the lawn grass by the seed you need to buy the quality grass seed from a vendor/supplier. 

And the second technique is how to grow lawn grass by cuttings/grass plants from old well-grown lawns.

For this, you have to scrape out any existing lawn patch with healthy lush green, insect-free green lawn with “pawda“. And it should be with a root zone for planting in your new garden area.

Usually, these lawn grass types are lawns common in the gardens as described below:

  1. Selection one
  2. Rough lawn ( Axonopus finish )
  3. Carpet lawn

Learn in detail about these lawns in the next article.

Feel free to comment on any questions about garden lawns.

Garden design – How to design a garden

 

Now we head to the next part of the garden development that is Garden design- How to design a garden  Which is an integral part of garden development on your own. 

As we completed the general understanding of the garden then soil and land preparation and then land preparation now we are at the next important part of garden development that is garden design or designing of the garden. 

After the completion of the steps of the garden development in previous articles. we have the ready well surfaced, leveled land for the planning of all our garden features like lawn, hedges, plants, etc. As we have learned in the last article on land preparation.

 

Why we make this designing complicated learn easily as below : 

Tools and tackles we need for design a garden

1. White marking powder ( one can use chalk powder “Chuna“) 

2. 5-7 mm thick and 2-3 feet long iron rods ( for the tie to thread  ), one can use bamboo or any wooden sticks at least thick like your thumb with good strength and quality. One can make themselves from scrap wood also. 

3. “Pawda” and “Kodali” for leveling if there is any obstacle found during design to remove it. 

4. And “Tagara” (ghamela) to collect the dirt, debris any other waste collection.

5. Hammer to fit the marking bar/ sticks in the land.

6. Plastic thread/ sutali to tie the marking bars/sticks 

7. Measuring tap.

 

Process of design layout on land

First of all, you should have a ready design on paper or you may have the design by a landscape architect. 

If you want to make your own design read the general guidelines for it in the previous article written here How to start a garden.

How much part of the garden you want to have a lawn, ornamental plants, flowering shrubs, trees, etc.

As you have the same area drawn on paper and design on paper. Start measuring on prepared land and put marking bar/ sticks on the points. 

 

How to build a garden practically

For example: Out of the total garden you have a 10×4=40 Square meter area to layout for the lawn. Where 10 is the length and 4 is the width. So it’s gone be a rectangle. Measure it by measure tap.

And the rectangle has four corners. Now it’s four corners are our points to put marking bars/ sticks. 

Then this all for bars fitted on the four corners of the rectangle. Start from anyone with tying thread to anyone bar and return back after tying all the bar in rectangle way to the same bar where you first tied the knot. 

Which makes the full rectangle. Always tie the thread on the bar at least 1 to 2 inches above the surface level not more than it.

After tying the thread now take a needful amount of the Chalk powder or any white marking powder. And then take the gloves on your hand. 

Then take a sufficient amount in your hand keep your hand which has to mark power in it above the thread at least by 2 inches and start dropping the small amount of the powder continuously to make a continuous straight line. 

Then after completing the job now untie the thread and pick up the fitted bars.

Now whatever design appeared is your layout for planting. Now you can make a border with bricks or any hedge plants etc. And area inside the marking with lawn or any plants whichever suitable as per plan/ Design

 

Conclusion

This is how you can layout the whole garden before planting. All the features should be laid out before starting any plantation or green work.

It defines a space for every feature on land so everything goes as per planning and so nothing gets messed up.

After doing such hard work you get the actual garden shaping up. After that, you can plan the purchase of all the green materials like how much lawn you need, what quantity of plant we need. 

If planning rockery then you can decide how many rocks to buy. Adding any water feature then you can estimate the material also. And above all, you can now plant the planned material.

This literature is like DIY in the garden hope you like it and understand the garden design very practically.

And this is not just to read and learn you can implement it on the go. Still, you have queries. Not understand any of the points here do comment. Feel free to write.

Garden Design- How to design a garden is an important step in making a garden in case of Layout, figure out the need for panting material, as well as the financial costing of the  Garden.

 

 

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