If you are planning to lay lawn turf in your garden but are pretty scared looking at the size of your garden and deciding the hardships just by imagining the amount of grass that will grow, you need to slow down. Laying a turf in garden is not the job of Hector, the greatest fighter of Troy but it is the job that is carried out by people like you and me. All you need to lay a turf the organic way is to plan as to how you may proceed on laying one successfully. A little overview like this one may help you get the turf you've always wanted for your garden.

Make hay while the sun shines.

While we don't want to plant hay, the saying perfectly sets itself in this context; start at the right moment. The best time to start is post-monsoon when the soil is moist enough and not completely wet. We are talking of the autumn season which seems to be the perfect time to go ahead with your dream lawn laying. This is the period when turf grows relatively slower and hence you get the time to set before mowing it.

Water it if needed.

Make sure to water your lawn if required prior to laying your new turf failing which your turf may not root properly and therefore, you may get a very bad lawn. A dry land may occur mostly in summer but given the changing climatic conditions, a dry lawn may occur any time of the year.

Grind the ground for making it optimal for turf.

Laying a turf may be an easier task that sowing the seeds for turf but you need to make sure the ground is ready to adapt to the turf after it has grown; for that you need to prepare it thoroughly. It is like nurturing the soil like a baby trying to walk; once adapted, the baby walks by itself and so does the soil perform by itself.

Weed out the weeds.

Get rid of the weeds in your soil, primarily perennial weeds for which you may need to use weed killers. Make sure you use a weed killer that does not remain in the soil for long for that also is detrimental to the soil quality as well as to the future grass that you intend to grow.

Dig deep, deeper.

Next thing, dig the soil to about 25 cm and because we are talking organic turf management, add some organic matter such as rotten manure to improve soil nutrients. Let the nutrients settle down and blend with the soil as after adding turf to your lawn, the soil content may drop a bit. For an optimum health of your soil, we ought to give several weeks for the soil to get salubrious but given the impatient people we are, let's just settle for a few days.

Weed out the weeds, again.

Once settled, add some weed killer again to remove weeds that might have grown during the time period you left it as it is. This will ensure that the soil is completely free of weeds. This will also ensure that your lawn has an even surface and is free of any protrusions.

Stomp the yard.

Next thing, level the ground with the help of some weights or simply with the help of kids who would love to stomp on the soil and help you level it! Treading it in all directions several times makes the ground levelled and thus the lawn would appear in a plane.

Finally, introduce a general organic fertilizer to the soil and spread it all over the area.

This concludes the pre-turf laying criteria for your lawn. After all, organic turf management may be effective only after you have made the soil ready to face the turf.