You may have just moved into your new house and are wondering how you can get rid of the overgrowth in the garden? Although a beautiful meadow also has its visual appeal, it also has the disadvantage that you should not step on it - it is therefore unsuitable as a play or lying area. With our tips you can transform your wild meadow into a beautiful, green lawn.

Prepare soil for reseeding

However, before you can start sowing, you need to prepare the soil accordingly. If you want to achieve an even, green lawn, simply digging up the lawn is unfortunately not enough - the weeds would always come through because the rhizomes and seeds are still in the soil. Therefore, you should first mow the meadow as deep as possible in order to then lift off the scar with a flat spade. Then proceed as follows:

  • Dig up the soil thoroughly, removing stones and roots.
  • if necessary, make a soil amendment: add peat and rather loamy sand to sandy soils.
  • Work in mature compost, preferably mixed with sand or peat, as a base fertilizer.
  • Let the soil sit for about two to three weeks.
  • Now remove any weeds that have emerged, then the soil is torn up and finely crumbled (e.g. with a rake).
  • Start sowing when the soil temperature is above 10 °C.
  • Sow as evenly as possible and rake out the seed flat.
  • Raking is better than flattening the fine seeds.
  • Now fertilize with a special starter fertilizer for lawns.
  • Cover the seeds loosely with peat to protect them from ravenous birds.
  • Important: Water the lawn regularly, because the sensitive seeds must not dry out!

You can carefully mow your young lawn for the first time when the stalks are about 10 centimeters long.

Spraying weeds to death with Roundup?

Many a gardener swears by simply hosing off pesky weeds with Roundup. However, the active ingredient in this weed killer, glyphosate, has recently fallen into disrepute - and rightly so, because glyphosate is considered to be highly carcinogenic. Don't be misled by the EU Food Safety Authority or the German Federal Office for Risk Assessment as to the dangerousness of the product. Numerous scientists have already taken a stand against their incorrect assessment.

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The best time to start laying a new lawn is in early spring. Work the soil in a dry phase in March in order to finally be able to sow the seeds from around mid to late May.

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