Fertiliser for my lawn

[Hamad Ahmed Kisana]

Let me add when you wanna really want to check that is the lawn in need of water.Walk on it look at the foot steps.Check again after 15 minutes if there are no foot steps the lawn dose,t need water.If the foot steps are there even after 15 minutes it means grass is under stress & needs water ha ha ha.

Apologies but i am reminded of this

hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaahhh still laughing farhan bhai....

[M Farooq]

Let me add when you wanna really want to check that is the lawn in need of water.Walk on it look at the foot steps.Check again after 15 minutes if there are no foot steps the lawn dose,t need water.If the foot steps are there even after 15 minutes it means grass is under stress & needs water ha ha ha.

Can we design a simpler criterion, please, which can be done in less than 30 seconds? :-)

[newton]

LOL......Where can I buy that weather forecasting stone?

[UMARKHANMARDAN]

Hamad sb but we dont have that system has ha ha.Foot steps is the formula World wide for lawn grass.

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Hamad sb but we dont have that system has ha ha.Foot steps is the formula World wide for lawn grass.

Take it easy and enjoy the joke.
Arif

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Let me add when you wanna really want to check that is the lawn in need of water.Walk on it look at the foot steps.Check again after 15 minutes if there are no foot steps the lawn dose,t need water.If the foot steps are there even after 15 minutes it means grass is under stress & needs water ha ha ha.

Apologies but i am reminded of this

You naughty boy,
Arif

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Let us come back to the original subject and not stray.
Arif

[UMARKHANMARDAN]

Arif sb i always enjoy gardening

[mikhurram]

I agree with Brig Sahib that the topic is getting hijacked by the weather forecasting chart and lets not digress from the theme.

by Farhan Ahmed » June 19th, 2014, 10:59 pm
Last late summer i applied little cow manure to all beds and one time urea application(diluted in water) in late winter and that was it.

Application of cow manure leads to weeding which would need to be uprooted more often and side-effects of Urea which have been discussed below.

Most of the time our emphasis is more on watering and fertilization (mostly nitrogen rich feeds) to keep our lawns lush & green. We need to focus more on improving the soil structure beneath the grass.

Our typical garden soil is mostly clay in nature having the downside that it gets heavily compacted due to which the top portion of the soil tends to dry out as water is unable to penetrate properly in the soil. We resort to endless usage of watering rather than fixing soil compactness. Aeration is a remedy to fix compaction about which we rarely talk about.

The frequency of mowing is another issue which is left at the sole discretion of the mali who practices the endless usage of mowing which if left unregulated is detrimental for the lawn.

Some members advocate at times the needless application of Urea or Ammonium Sulphate which greens our lawn quickly but the main problem is it’s composition based solely on nitrogen only and consequently its application encourages lots of soft, sappy growth that requires considerable and regular watering. Preferably the composition of the fertilizer apart from high % of Nitrogen should also have some % of Phosphorus and especially higher proportion of Potassium to boost the resistance of grass against diseases. The NPK ratio of (5:1:5) suggested by the article below tends to resonate with me. Note August mentioned in the article for South Africa is equivalent to March in plain areas of Pakistan).






My advise would be to focus on improving the soil structure underneath the grass and resort to the usage of environment friendly alternatives like the ones being practiced at Harvard (see url below)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/garde ... d=all&_r=0

or doing away with our lawns being a drain on our scarce water supplies (easier said than done and even a difficult choice for me but nevertheless can be given serious consideration).

A alternative to our green lawn which looks dazzling.

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

CONCLUSION
Lawn is a piece of land covered by grass. Cricket ground is a big Lawn and a polo ground even bigger with no other plants growing in or around.
These lawns are fed according to book keeping in view grass and only grass.
My lawn is a small 22 X 44 Feet of grassy area surrounded by trees, vines and shrubs.
Under the grass are grass roots and below that is the network of roots of trees, vines and shrubs. In fact it is a feeding ground common to them all.
Fertiliser for my lawn has to meet requirement of all in quality as well as quantity.

We all suffer from fixation,Food for thought.
Arif