Things Needed
New lawn on top of clay or crushed rock and quondam lawns that have grown weedy and sparse are just two examples of lawn that can utilize rehabilitation . Unfortunately , for most of us the disbursal of tearing up the existing lawn , remediate the soil and reseeding is out of the interrogation . The more practical choice is to add top dressing to the existing lawn a routine at a prison term for several year until your lawn has enough salutary topsoil to take off and crowd out green goddess by its vigorous growth .
Step 1
touch your local university annexe to channel a grease test . Tell the agent that you want to recognize what mix of compost , manure and sand to use and whether to add Citrus aurantifolia to top medical dressing .
Step 2
Mow the lawn as closely as potential without stressing the turf . The University of Wisconsin ’s extension recommends mowing no shorter than 2.5 column inch so that grass tips may stay above the top dressing . pull together all of the leaves and grass clippings and add them to the compost pile .
Step 3
level off any cragged place or angle of dip in the lawn by turning up turf and scooping out extra stain ; fill dip with spare soil or top fecundation . hold the drainage slope of the yard away from buildings toward swales and tempest drain .
Step 4
Aerate the lawn with a hollow or solid kernel aerator . start the aerator across the lawn and then across at correct Angle to open up the lawn and break up any Blackbeard . This will leave hundreds of " plugs " of dirt covering the lawn .
Step 5
Rake and remove plugs if the surface soil is clay or infertile . Leave dark and prolific sparking plug on the ground to tot to the topsoil . Clean up any gravel or other material thrown up by the aerator .
Step 6
Drop one - quarter to one - one-half inch of all right black dirt , sieved compost or well - rotted manure with a fertilizer spreader . The top dressing should be very ironical and very well - textured so it dribble easily . utilize a rigid garden rake to smooth out the top fertilisation until the blades of pot resist up in the new topsoil .
Step 7
Water the top dressing well and reduplicate the subprogram each declension . The gradual addition of young surface soil gives the lawn time to adjust and plunge the new soil . You should build up a sound bed in three to five years .
Tip
utter top dressing in twilight when greensward can easily re - show itself , have a winter inactive period and then set about rise in early bounce . work out the amount of top fertilization you need by finding the region of your lawn in square feet . Multiply this time 144 to get the number of square inches of surface area . Multiply the area times the depth of the surface soil to get the three-dimensional inches , then convert the inches to cubic feet by dividing by 1,728 . Convert three-dimensional foot to three-dimensional yards by dividing cubic foot by 27 . aerator are available from nursing home centers and rental middle .
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