Grassy garden is beautiful to look at. Unfortunately, treating the grass grows green and lush is not easy matter. Sadly, when we have hardly caring it, grass become damaged by trampled passers.
In order to safe grass, create a footpath flow at a crossing area that is often skipped. You can use stepping as a medium.
Stepping is widely available in garden equipment shops and stone. There are made of cement and sand mixture which printed with a variety of shapes and sizes. There is a smooth surface, there is also sprinkled with gravel or brush coral. You also can take advantage of natural stones, such as a stone temple as stepping.
For selection of stone types, avoid the easy mossy stone. If using natural stone, don’t forget to also provide coating in order to make the stone hard to overgrown with moss and stay the stone beautiful appearance, also weather resistant.
Before you start installing stepping as the footpath flow in the grassy garden, there are some steps we need to do:
1. Measure the area of the park and create a diagram. Next create a stepping flow design complete with the stepping amount.
2. Punch a hole through the area to be covered with a stepping, according to the size of its steeping. Further, plant the stepping on the holes that had been prepared. The depth of the hole to be made shall be in accordance with the type of grass that will be installed.
If the selected type of grass is a mini elephant grass, swiss or manila, the surface of the stepping after planting should be higher 1cm from the soil surface. If the type of grass used is local elephant type that is bigger, the position of stepping surface at least 2cm higher than the upper soil surface. That way, the stepping will not be buried or too prominent than the high grass.
3. Mix the loose soil that will be planted with grass with the compost around the stepping. The comparison, for an area of 2 square meter use compost as much as 4 kg. Then flush with water until damp. Leave it for one day.
4. After a day left, install the grasses. Leave a gap between about 4cm-5cm, so that grass roots can freely develop. Tap the surface of the grass with the board. Flush with water while it still pushes in order to unify roots with the soil. Once this process is completed, clean the surface of stepping from the soil and grass.
5. Treatment. Flush grass twice a day: morning and afternoon. Give a urea fertilizer once a month.
