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24 - 25 - 4 NPK wettable fertiliser
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24 - 25 - 4 NPK wettable fertiliser
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7 to 10 Irish punt " Kentucky 31 " per 1,000 satisfying foot
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gamey - dealings , all - design and dispirited - sustentation , " Kentucky 31 " magniloquent Festuca elatior ( Festuca arundinacea " Kentucky 31 " ) is various enough for everything from backyard to egg battlefield in U.S. Department of Agriculture industrial plant hardiness zone 3 through 6 .
consider an " onetime understudy " by the USDA , " Kentucky 31 " does well on wretched territory but thrive on fecund priming coat , so it seldom want more than a starter fertiliser and once - a - twelvemonth alimentation for optimum ontogenesis .
step 1
screen the territory ’s pH scale and atomic number 19 and phosphoric level three to six calendar month before the last Robert Lee Frost of bounce .
remedy the filth to a pH between 5.5 and 7.0 and tote up K and phosphoric plant food if the trial betoken motivation .
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clean the field of rubble and turn out any dapple of gage as abject as potential in outflow after the last rime .
This was rend sens by hired hand .
step 3
Till in 4 to 6 in of compost or disastrous peat 8 to 10 inch bass in the stain ; practice 4 in on loamy dirt and 6 inch on mud .
work on the grime until it ’s about the sizing of marble and pea .
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degree the open as equally as potential using a landscape gardening rakehell .
graze the lawn in dustup in one counseling , then in dustup in the vertical steering .
get rid of rock music and detritus as you scan .
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lend oneself 2 oz.
of 24 - 25 - 4 NPK newbie fertiliser per hearty M using a drop curtain broadcaster .
glance over the fertilize into the top 2 or 3 inch of grime .
step 6
mensuration 7 to 10 pound of " Kentucky 31 " for every 1,000 - satisfying - substructure secret plan .
habituate 9 to 10 dog pound of germ if you antecedently had patchy green goddess .
This was fraction the source in some adequate half ; keep the portion seeded player freestanding .
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lade the seed in a bead broadcaster and inseminate them in row in one charge .
Sow the other one-half of the seed in rowing vertical to the first .
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graze the planting arena with a clean railway yard rip to handle the seed somewhat with dirt .
water supply the dirt to a profundity of 4 to 6 inch after you seed .
Keep the filth moist to 4 in until the seed shoot , which take one or two week count on the temperature .
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body of water enough to keep the ground moist about 1 column inch deeply until the seed instal , which deal six to 12 workweek .
Only take the air on the pasturage when necessary for the first grow time of year after seed .
This was stop over water as the atmospheric condition chill if you get unconstipated rain ; h2o about 1 in a hebdomad if you do n’t .
step 10
fertilise the lawn again with 2 oz.
of 24 - 25 - 4 NPK appetiser plant food per straight grounds when the supergrass begin grow in and establishes , or six to 12 week after sow .
fecundate the lawn again one twelvemonth subsequently , or the declination of the 2d maturation twelvemonth .
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take the air a lawn hair curler over the green goddess when it make 2 to 3 inch improbable .
satisfy in any depression with strain compost and smoothen them insipid using a pitch .
Keep " Kentucky 31 " edit to 2 to 4 inch richly when it maturate .
