How Do You Grow Grass Between Flagstones?
Growing grass between flagstones will enhance your walkway and add color to your garden. A good spacing between flagstones is three to seven inches as the minimum. Anything closer will be hard to maintain and even harder to establish the grass. One of the main problems encountered with growing grass between flagstones is the soil preparation. The first thing you need to do is to clean up the area between the flagstones to make sure you have a debris-free area. Eliminate any stones and make sure you have good soil to start off with. Good soil is the key to good, healthy grass. If you have this to start, then you can skip the soil preparation and go right to the planting of the grass step. Next, you want to determine how much sun you get in the flagstone area. This will determine if you need a shade turf or regular grass seed. Recommended shade turf: fine fescues; tall fescues, including creeping red, chewings. (Reference 1; first page paragraph 1 of website.) After you install the flags
