Equipment for hydropowing lawn with your hands - photo and design
How to make a homemade hydrosettlement device
Today in the category "Dacha homemade" want to talk about the device that greatly simplifies the life of the owners of the sites dreaming of an even and beautiful lawn.
Sowing a lawn on the territories designated for this on a plot is difficult for many summer residents and gardeners of the age - the years take their toll, the back aches and if the plot for sowing the lawn is more than a few meters, then it is difficult to cope with this in one weekend, you have to postpone the sowing for the next week, as a result why the lawn grows unevenly, become clumpy and ugly, and besides, these ubiquitous birds striving to peck out all the seeds of lawn grass from the soiled soil with such difficulty.
Hydropowing technology has become popular in Russia since once in Internet blogs the news spread that before the arrival of a high-ranking official in one of the cities, local services paint a flower bed in a green color.
Later it turned out that what was wrong and that the local services actually carried out a routine hydro-sowing, which for example in Germany has long been no surprise.
The fact is that it was at this time that we were engaged in sowing grass on the football field (for many years our organization contained a children's football school, and at that time I headed it) Caring for the field was a constant headache. Seeding of grass seeds was carried out by means of primitive spreading with subsequent harrowing by hand rakes. This method did not allow a uniform distribution of seeds across the site, and many of them remained on the surface. They were pricked by birds, flying in flocks from all around. In addition, after sowing on the first sunny day, the seeds on the surface began to dry. Needed constant watering.
Having worn out with seeding on our own, we decided to turn to a specialized company that was engaged in hydroseeding on the Moscow Ring Road. We easily found this organization, but they asked for huge money. Only a very rich man or the government of Moscow could venture on such expenses. We had to refuse.
I completely forgot about this episode. But when he retired and went into the kitchen garden and country house, he involuntarily returned to this topic. At this time, I mastered the method of protecting buildings from fires and cold by applying mixtures of clay with fillers, as which I often used sifted sawdust of different types of wood.
And one day a thought arose, why, as a filler, do not use the seeds of grasses or other sowing vegetation instead of sawdust.
By spraying clay mixed with seeds from a pistol, it is possible to provide a complete hydraulic sowing (photo 1 - top).
For verification, I did not have to buy and manufacture anything. Even an agitator for the preparation of cement mortar was useful. It is very convenient to prepare a mixture with a uniform distribution of seeds throughout the volume (photo 2). This, in turn, ensured even distribution of the seed material over the surface of the site. This can not be achieved by any of the methods of sowing (photo 3). and even more so by the method of spreading seeds.
In the mixture it is easy to add various fertilizers. They will get all lawn grass for all 100%. And dosing the amount of fertilizer is very simple. Read on the packaging the rate of its consumption at 1 m2, determine the area of the planted area and load the fertilizer seeds into the mixer to prepare the mixture. Stir. After preparing the mixture, you can not rush with sowing, and give the seeds time to get wet and swell. For example, in the morning - stirred up, and in the evening - sprayed.
It is also remarkable that in a dry weather the clay solution is instantly covered by a dense crust, while retaining a sufficient amount of moisture inside. Seeds remain not only in a humid environment, but also protected from birds.
See also: Lawn: Is it better to sow or roll a roll? Proper care of the lawn.
It is not necessary to try spraying in one pass, it can be done two and three times, and refilling the gun is a simple thing (photo 4). It is easier to control the uniformity of distribution of the mixture, which increases the quality of the crop. There is no fear and leave unsowned places. Clay coating is clearly visible on the surface of the earth.
I did not have to purchase additional equipment. Everything was at hand: gun, compressor, hoses, agitator. Of course, if you need to sow two hundredth of a lawn, then buying all this is not specifically rational. But with large sowing volumes, when the equipment is already there or it will be required for other purposes, the cost of acquiring it will be justified.
Almost every owner of a country house has in his household a vibrating pump such as "Baby", "Rucheyk" and others. Here they can easily be used for sowing (see photo 2). To do this, you only need to strain the clay solution, which will save it from large inclusions and make it more liquid.
The pump itself is ready to pump seeds of a rather large size, but it will be difficult to pick up a sprayer. Seeds fine pass well through conventional plastic sprayers. They are cheap and sold everywhere.
For larger seeds, you will have to drill holes in the nozzles of the sprayer. It’s not very convenient that during operation it is often necessary to turn the pump on and off. To avoid this, I put a three-way valve in the pressure line of the pump. It is convenient in that when I do not need spraying, I switch to the circulation of the mixture without turning off the pump itself. At this point, additional mixing of the mixture occurs. The longer the pause, the better the mixture is mixed. Clay soaking and mixing can be done in any container, even in a barrel. It is worth remembering that clay loves prolonged soaking. The solution will be better, and the mixture more uniform, which will affect the quality of the spray.
Author: V.Legostaev. Photo of the author.
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