Take a look out of the window in your garden again and think about which spring work you should tackle as the next? Does your view of the lawn that doesn't make a particularly fresh impression? Maybe ask yourself again what exactly is to do and where you should start. We will summarize the tasks regarding lawn care in spring together with the correct order for you - cleaning, mowing, scarifying, fertilizing, sowing and liming, what comes first and when?
Lawn maintenance in spring in the correct order - this is how you proceed:
Maintain your lawn properly by complying with the following order for lawn care in the spring:
1. Clean the area preparatory
Before you start grass care in spring with the known measures, the first step in the order includes cleaning up - something that neglects or completely forgotten many. What does that mean? Unevenness should be repaired and the dead are removed. That means nothing more than:
- They dispose of fallen leaves of surrounding plants.
- Demands and other dead plant parts that have fallen on the lawn also remove.
- A rake with solid tines is ideal for both work.
- Also remove dead lawns (this usually happens automatically when other plant parts are stored).
- Pave mole hill. Simply move the earth with the rake and distribute it evenly around it. Pay attention to the most thin layer as possible so that the lawn can easily grow through.
- You can also use this earth if you have found small cocks somewhere and want to fill them up.
You can start with this lawn care in March and before you go to the other tasks.
2. (Optional lawn care in spring): Loose the lawn
This step is not absolutely necessary, but if it does, it will take place after the cleanup. How do you know if the ground has to be relaxed? Can puddles be recognized somewhere on the lawn? Then this is a good sign that the soil has become so firm that the water cannot drain off. In this case, loosening up is a good idea.
- Use a simple rake or a rake.
- Stop several times in different places in the affected area.
- While the tool is still there, move it a little back and forth to enlarge the holes.
3. fertilize to strengthen the lawn
Before you carry out powerful work for the lawn, you should strengthen it. You do thatOf course with fertilizer. A long -term fertilizer is optimal, but other frenzy fertilizers are also suitable. There are special frenzy fertilizers who also act as moss destroyers if they have to deal with moss infestation. Share them on the lawn according to the package instructions and let it work enough time and absorb from the lawn before continuing lawn maintenance in spring in the correct order.
A notice:Organic fertilizers only work with the help of microorganisms contained in the soil, which are still quite sluggish in spring due to the cold. Therefore, a mineral frenzy fertilizer in spring is the better choice (if you want a quick nutrient supply).
4. Mow the lawn
As long as the lawn does not grow, it does not need to be trimmed, that is clear so far. However, as soon as the temperatures are over 10 degrees, its growth begins and the first lawn cut of the season is imminent. As a rule, it applies from a length of about 7 centimetersmowcan (after you have cleaned the lawn mower). Until then, thanks to the previous fertilization, the blades of grass should be strong enough to tolerate cuts well. Do not shorten the lawn more than five or six centimeters so that it does not use frost damage, because it protects itself with its length.
5. Support as part of lawn care in spring
Donating is also an optional tasks and is only in the urgent case that plagued by many weeds and moss or the lawn is matted. Otherwise isSlitting the turfLess advantageous and weakens the lawn unnecessary. You should have already mowed the lawn twice so that it is also strong enough to survive this process well.
6. (Optional) - The limestone (also against moss)
Lime for the lawn is not necessarily part of the mandatory program of lawn care. Rather, it is calculated when the soil actually needs it. To find out this, measure the pH using test strips. This is under 5.5 - 6.5the ground needs lime, which you distribute after scarification (applies to spring) so that it can be well received. Nevertheless, it takes a few months and plenty of water for the recording. Autumn is therefore the better time.
7. Rapen if necessary
Bare places orTailors of the lawn after the winter season, which often also arise from recently removed moss infestation, you can fill out as a last step in lawn care in spring with new lawn. Simply sow the seeds between April and May and then keep them sufficiently moist afterwards so that you can germinate. It is important that the floor temperature is not less than 8 degrees, with the ideal temperatures for this purpose between 14 and 24 degrees.
