How to Grow Grass?

You look out in the yard and what do you notice? Gravel, dirt, rough patches of grass here and there – that is, an unattractive yard. What could make you despise the qappearance even more is if when you look over by the neigbours your eyes meet green, level and pleasingly neat lawn. Evidently, you want a lawn like that. You want to alter your yard to “keep up with the Jones’s” and to make it more yard-like. You want to see your yard carpeted by green beauty free of weeds. The mystery to having neat lawns is planting grass, applying lawn fertilizers, good weed control customs and having a an appropriate mowing regime.

What exactly is grass? It is a type of plant belonging to the family of Gramineae. There are nine thousand different classes of grass. Whether we believe it or not, grass is very essential to our livelihood. Some types produce food for us such as rice, other types form the diet for animals like cows and some kinds are used in construction or to help prevent soil erosion for instance bamboo.

People grow different types of grass on their lawns but it depends to a great extent on the kind of climate. Grass has fibrous roots so once planted, they spread around an area very rapidly to cover that specific place. If your goal is to have your yard covered in the beauty of green grass, here’s how to realize that aim:

How To Grow Grass

Materials required:

Grass seeds

Hay or straw

Loose soil

Phosphorus

Soil conditioner

Tools required:

Watering can

Metal rake

Directions:

1. Use the metal rake to plow the soil as a way of preparing it to plant grass.

2. Add phosphorus and soil conditioner to the soil to prepare it to give good growth of grass.

3. Use the metal rake and till the soil again to make sure that the phosphorus and soil conditioner are properly combined into the soil.

4. Distribute the seeds by hand onto the bare soil.

5. Moisten the seeds using the watering can. By doing this, the soil will also be hydrated.

6. Cover by scattering loose soil over the seeds.

7. Spread some hay or straw over the area to supply the sutiable growing conditions, particularly the right temperature, for the grass.

8. Water the grass no less than two times daily to fuel growth.

In no time you will have sprouts of grass on the lawn.

Tips:

Do not apply seeds too thickly to an area as the nutrients in the soil will become inadequate for too much grass.

The appropriate time to plant grass is in April and October and it has been discovered that seeds planted in October generate better growth as well as re-growth.

When planting the seeds, be certain to do so evenly on the soil to prevent thick areas and thin areas which will give a “patchy look”.

It is always best to use a watering can than to use a hose because the hose is likely to wash away the seeds from the soil which would defeat the whole purpose of you planting them.

Before you plant any grass in your yard, it is very crucial to eliminate existing grass.

You may bear in mind edging the corners of the lawn where you want the grass to stop growing as this will give a neater look when the grass has grown.

Do not walk on the lawn when you notice small green shoots. The grass is very delicate at this point and cannot withstand abuse so it needs to become full-grown

Here’s more gardening tips on how to grow grass.