LAWN
A lawn has a charm all its own. It serves to enhance the beauty of a garden, be it large or small. It enhances the beauty of surrounding objects, whether they are trees, shrubs or flower beds.
Grass being one of the most hardiest perennial herbs, it is not difficult to keep a lawn in good condition provided one takes good care of it. The view of the lawn from the verandah and the windows of the house should be free and uninterrupted. A spacious lawn may be provided with beds of flowering plants, a group of shrubs or trees of attractive form or specimen shrubs as Thuja orientalis or traveller's palm or large succulents and there in pockets made in the lawn to form colonies of themselves and bear their beautiful flowers.
Methods of Lawn making :
After the ground has been prepared, the lawn may be laid out by adopting any of the following methods,
From seed
By turfing
By turf plastering
By dibbling roots
After care :
After making a lawn; rolling, moving, watering and restoration of patchy places should receive regular attention.
Weeds should be pulled out as soon as possible.
In the absence of rain, it is watered regularly at 10 days interval.
Mowing should be done at brief intervals and never allowed to produce seed stalks.
To have a perfect green lawn, it is fed once a month with a liquid manure prepared by dissolving 45g of ammonium sulphate in 5 litres of water.
Plants suitable for planting in lawns :
Shrubs and creepers :
Agave americana
Furcraea gigantea
Musa superba
Bougainvillea spectabilis
Hibiscus sp.
Sometimes mounds are created in the spacious lawn to break the feeling of monotony. Monotony is also overcome by planting flowering or foliage shrubs on the fringes of the lawn or by having flowered beds or borders on the selected area inside the lawn.
Commonly employed grass species to make lawn are given below :
Chain grass - Sporobolus tremulus
Blue grass - Poa annua
Buffalo grass - Stenotaphrum secundatum
Japan grass - Zoisia japonica
Bermuda grass - Cynodon sp.
For more details, Ms. G. Keerthana, Bachelor of Agriculture student and Dr. B. Guna, Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, Nalanda College of Agriculture, MR Palayam, Trichy. Email : baluguna8789@gmail.com.
Phone no. : 9944641459 can be contacted.
A lawn has a charm all its own. It serves to enhance the beauty of a garden, be it large or small. It enhances the beauty of surrounding objects, whether they are trees, shrubs or flower beds.
Grass being one of the most hardiest perennial herbs, it is not difficult to keep a lawn in good condition provided one takes good care of it. The view of the lawn from the verandah and the windows of the house should be free and uninterrupted. A spacious lawn may be provided with beds of flowering plants, a group of shrubs or trees of attractive form or specimen shrubs as Thuja orientalis or traveller's palm or large succulents and there in pockets made in the lawn to form colonies of themselves and bear their beautiful flowers.
Methods of Lawn making :
After the ground has been prepared, the lawn may be laid out by adopting any of the following methods,
From seed
By turfing
By turf plastering
By dibbling roots
After care :
After making a lawn; rolling, moving, watering and restoration of patchy places should receive regular attention.
Weeds should be pulled out as soon as possible.
In the absence of rain, it is watered regularly at 10 days interval.
Mowing should be done at brief intervals and never allowed to produce seed stalks.
To have a perfect green lawn, it is fed once a month with a liquid manure prepared by dissolving 45g of ammonium sulphate in 5 litres of water.
Plants suitable for planting in lawns :
Shrubs and creepers :
Agave americana
Furcraea gigantea
Musa superba
Bougainvillea spectabilis
Hibiscus sp.
Sometimes mounds are created in the spacious lawn to break the feeling of monotony. Monotony is also overcome by planting flowering or foliage shrubs on the fringes of the lawn or by having flowered beds or borders on the selected area inside the lawn.
Commonly employed grass species to make lawn are given below :
Chain grass - Sporobolus tremulus
Blue grass - Poa annua
Buffalo grass - Stenotaphrum secundatum
Japan grass - Zoisia japonica
Bermuda grass - Cynodon sp.
For more details, Ms. G. Keerthana, Bachelor of Agriculture student and Dr. B. Guna, Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, Nalanda College of Agriculture, MR Palayam, Trichy. Email : baluguna8789@gmail.com.
Phone no. : 9944641459 can be contacted.