Abstract: A method and an apparatus for planting runners enabling efficient and economical plantation of runners of summer lawngrass in a lawn of winter lawngrass. A plurality of longitudinal and parallel grooves having small width are formed in a ground surface and a runner net tape, prepared by dispersing runners between a pair of nets, is supplied to each groove. The net tape is forced into the ground from its central portion so that the net tape is buried in the grooves in twofold form. The net tape may also be dipped in water or a liquid for post-planting care before it is supplied to the groove.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lawn protecting method for preventing a lawn from being barren by stamping pressure, particularly relates to a lawn protecting method in golf courses, tennis courts, sports stadiums such as soccer fields and an elastic body for lawn protection used therefor. The present invention is a lawn protecting method comprising dispersing fragmental elastic bodies of not less than 0.0003 cm.sup.3 and not more than 5 cm.sup.3 in volume on a lawn or previously sowed soil, and cultivating turf. Moreover, an elastic body for lawn protection according to the present invention consists of rubber, synthetic resin or their sponge, its cross section is circular, oval, annular, spherical, polygonal and their amorphous shape, and its volume is 0.0003-5 cm.sup.3.