LAWN AND ITS MANAGEMENT

PRESENTED BY:
DR. GAYATRI KHANGJARAKPAM
 INTRODUCTION
• Definition
– A ground cover of perennial
grass. Also known as natural
green carpet

• Importance
– Important element in the
garden
– Add beauty and value to the
landscape
– Used as recreational & sports
areas
– Provide excellent cover with
environmental benefits
 SITE SELECTION AND
SOIL PREPARATION

• Receive full sunshine

• Good top soil
• Sandy-loam; pH of 5-6
• Soil up to 25-30 cm depth
• Mix with organic matter
• Irrigate the field thoroughly
for weed removal
• Levelled with proper
drainage
 TYPE OF LAWN GRASS
• Cool Season Grasses
– Grow best in spring and
stay green in winter
• Tall fescue, Kentucky
Bluegrass, Fine fescue,
Perennial Ryegrass, Annual Kentucky Bluegrass Fescue
Ryegrass, etc.
• Warm Season Grasses
– Grow best in summer and
go dormant in winter
• Bermuda grass, St.
Augustine, Bahia grass,
Centipede, etc. Bahiagrass Centipede
 SELECTION OF LAWN GRASS
• Texture
– Coarse: Fescue
– Fine : Bent grass
– Medium : Buffalo grass
• Wear tolerance capacity
– Excellent: Bermuda grass
– Very Good: Kentucky Bluegrass,
– Good: Zoysia grass, Bahia grass
– Poor: Centipede, St. Augustine St. Augustine Ryegrass
• Establishment rate
– Fast: Creeping bent grass
– Medium: Kentucky Bluegrass
– Slow: Buffalo grass
• Other criteria: diseases tolerance,
heat tolerance, drought tolerance,
shade tolerance, salt tolerance etc.

Cynodon Zoysia
Most common turf grass in India
•Doob grass (Cynodon dactylon) - Calcuttia, Hariyali, Selecion 1, Selection 8
METHOD OF LAWN ESTABLISHMENT
1. Seeding:
– Easy method
– Rate 250-300 g/ 100 sqm
– Timing : Depending on the varieties
• Warm season and Cool season
– Germination: 3-5 wks

2. Sodding:
– Quick method
– Transplanting of established turf
– Uniform sod of 3-4 cm thick
– Soil of sod = soil of the area
– Immediate watering
 METHOD OF LAWN ESTABLISHMENT
3. Sprigging/ Dibbling/
Stolonization:
– Planting of stolons or rhizomes in
furrows or small holes
– Stolons at 15 - 20 cm apart
– Dibbled at 1/2 to 1/3rd of height
4. Plugging:
– Planting small piece of sod
– Plugs of 5 -10 cm diameter at 15 -40
cm
5. Turf plastering:
– Slurry of garden soil + fresh cow dung
+ water + fresh roots/
stems/rhizomes
– Plastered evenly on the ground
 LAWN FERTILIZATION
• Maintain high quality &
healthy lawn
• Compete with weed &
rapid recovery from pest,
diseases, environmental
stress
• Soil test for required
• General recommendation:
– 0.5 kg N, 1 kg P and 1
kg K per 100 m2
 CARE AND MAINTENANCE
• Irrigation
– Before wilting or internal
water stress.
– Interval
• Summer 3 to 5 days while
winter 10 to 14 days
– Sprinkler: best method

• Weeding
– Common weeds in sub-
tropics
• Cyperus, Euphorbia, Oxalis,
etc.
– Manual weeding and
herbicides (narrow/broad
leaves)
 CARE AND MAINTENANCE
• Mowing
– Cutting of lawn grass at
5-7 cm
– Mowed 1/3rd leaves
height at a time
• Rolling
– Help the grass anchor
– Keep the surface levelled
• Scraping and raking
– Removal of hard crust
and loosening of old
stolon
– During April and May
 CARE AND MAINTENANCE
• Dethatching/ Power
raking/ Vertical mowing:
– High thatch accumulation:
Excessive nitrogenous
fertilizer and pesticides,
saturated lawn
• Aerification:
– Soil compaction: weak
grass, thinning of turf, hard
playing surface, reduce root
elongation
– Core aerification replace soil
air with atmospheric air
 COMMON DISEASES AND INSECTS & PESTS

• Diseases • Insects and pests

– Dollar spot – Soil borne insects: White
– Fusarium patch grubs, bill bugs and mole
– Red thread crickets
– Brown patch – Sod webworms, Army
worms, Cut worms
– Chinch bugs, Spittle bugs
Thank you