Anyone who wants to grow a dense 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" - polevitse pobeitsa, discuss the rules of planting and care of the plant at home.
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 in a short period of time the plant can spread throughout the territory that has been sown, forming a light green thick carpet.
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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. The grass also protects the root system of plants, especially if they are still young and not strong.
Among the advantages, it is also possible to emphasize that a thick layer of green grass can prevent the deterioration of fruits that fall from the trees.
The main advantage of 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 downsides 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 for about a month to fry.
If you are planning to mow a lawn, then you only need to use a lawnmower, because you cannot mow the field crop with a trimmer, as it has very soft stems.
Use in herbal mixtures
Despite the fact that the field leaves can quickly displace some weeds and fully occupy the territory, it normally gets along with other cereal plants, for example, a pastas gazeel is suitable for the company, thin fields, 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 pole-shooter prefers to grow in a sunny place, and she will also normally feel in an absent-minded 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 very quickly grows and turns into a juicy thick carpet.
Site preparation
Preparation of the site for seeding the lawn is quite 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, since 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.
Important! It must be remembered that it is necessary to sow seeds after six weeks after weed treatment with herbicides, after removing their residues from the soil.
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 a bad thing 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 leveling 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.
Important! If possible, it is recommended to allow the prepared site to stand for 2 months, since, most likely, land will settle.
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 pojevitsu pozhitnoy.
Timing
The lawn is recommended to be sown at the end of April or mid-September. At this time, bent grass 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 season, 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.
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Taking into account that the povitsa can grow well and root through shoots, the consumption per 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, with time they will, of course, overgrow, but you have to wait. In order to sow 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 polevitsa breeder, but it is necessary to adhere to some rules and recommendations so that the state of the lawn is at a high level.
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Watering
The polevitsa pobegodonnaya has a superficial root system, therefore if it feels the lack of moisture, it will be reflected in 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 by 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 only cut the field of grass with a lawnmower, you will not have any problems with it.
Shear-bred is rarely enough, as 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 perform such a procedure 3 times per season, removing old, dried and overgrown shoots.
It is recommended to mow the barn completely at the root during the winter preparation period, so that later in the new season the lawn would 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 in 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.
When feeding plants, you will certainly come in handy humates, "Gumat 7", "Kemiroy", potassium humate, biohumus
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 care for it, it remains green for a long time and grows quickly. 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.
