Interior designers are unbridled in their desire to create attractive and unique interiors for clients. The highlight of many modern styles are plants that are used to give the room a special coziness and affability. This is not just about ordinary flowerpots and flowers, which are used as an additional decor, but about lawns that can be grown directly on the windowsill in a pot. How to do it right, read on.

The use of lawn in the interior of the apartment

Indoor lawns are widely used for decorating and landscaping, both private residential houses, and for landscaping office and public premises. Such a living corner unobtrusively gives freshness, originality and beauty, and will be an excellent addition to the interior, executed in any style: from minimalism to the modern Scandinavian trend.

Indoor lawn is widely used to accentuate certain zones, it performs the function of combining with nature, will become a source of vivacity and tranquility. Thanks to these advantages, natural grass is much more appreciated than artificial grass.

Tank for growing lawn at home

Indoor lawn can be grown both in a purchased and in a self-made container. So, you can safely buy a box or container of the dimensions you need in the store, or you can take improvised materials and build a foundation for cultivating lawn grass on the windowsill with your own hands, especially since making a box with bumpers is not difficult.

Important! You can’t make a capacity for indoor lawn from boards made of natural solid wood, as well as plywood and fiberboard. Such materials absorb moisture, which you will water your plants, which will provoke a quick damage to the tank.

As a material, plastic sheets, polycarbonate, plexiglass, etc. are suitable. Just cut the required dimensions and connect them with screws, bolts, screws or other fasteners using a drill.

Two boxes need to be made: one for direct growing grass, and the other should be much larger and serve as a tray for the accumulated moisture that will be released after watering.

Substrate preparation

The ground for lawn grass needs to be selected loose and porous with a neutral level of acidity. The substrate can be purchased in a specialized store, or prepared independently. To do this, you need sand, silt and clay, in the proportions of 2: 2: 1. At the bottom of the box, it is necessary to lay out a layer of drainage from expanded clay, balls, pebbles or other materials. The drainage components should be rinsed with boiling water in order to disinfect, and the substrate itself should be calcined.

Grass selection

For growing in an apartment, it is best to choose shade-hardy varieties of grass. Even if your miniature lawn is located solely on the windowsill, still it will not receive the amount of sunlight that would be in open air. Moreover, indoor lawn is not static: you can easily move your green corner, and give the interior a new breath almost daily.

Did you know? The first lawn mower was created in 1830 by inventor Edwin Badding.

When choosing grass, study the information indicated on the packages and buy a mixture of shade-tolerant herbs: fescue, thin and white bentwood, ryegrass. You can also purchase the seed ofopiopogon. This plant is characterized by rapid growth and belongs to the evergreen herbaceous shrubs. It is preferable to grow soil protectors in the room, which will form green decorative carpets. Such crops include ivy, fittonia, selaginella, nerter.

Rules of landing and further care

Planting a lawn grass seed in indoor conditions is the same as in an open area: the seed must be evenly spread on the soil surface and sprinkled with soil, the layer of which should be about 1.5 cm.

Caring for your home lawn is effortless. So, you need to regularly cut it: due to the lack of full sunlight, the grass will grow quite slowly, so one haircut per month will be enough. Mowing should be done using long-handled garden shears. The best tool for carrying out the procedure is an electric grass trimmer, equipped with a shearing wire.

It is also necessary to water the lawn 2 times a week. Do not forget about aeration (calcination) of the earth in multiple places. Such a measure is necessary to enable the roots to breathe. If the air in the apartment is excessively dry, then it is recommended to spray the lawn twice with water with a spray gun twice in 7 days.

Compliance with such simple rules of care will allow you to admire your home lawn for 3-4 years, after which it is worth sowing the grass.

In order to give the interior of the house a special coziness, comfort and attractiveness, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive furniture, or to go out of your way to constantly make new repairs. Sometimes it’s enough just to green the room. An indoor lawn is ideal for this. This is an ideal way to effectively decorate the interior.