Check out this unique blog for the complete organic lawn fertilizer recipe…

Organic Lawn and Garden Fertilizer

Organic Lawn & Garden Fertilizer. 1 can beer. 1 cup liquid dish soap. 1 cup lemon scented ammonia. 1 can Coke or Pepsi or soda. 1 cup liquid fertilizer (like Miracle gro etc). 1/2 or 1 cup listerine – regular or mint …

Publish Date: 03/25/2011 5:18

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I wonder if the beer and mouthwash combo was from personal experience… it’s just quirky enough to have been handed down from somebody’s Grampa. This might be a fun experiment to try for a “lush” organic lawn :)

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Dave Epstein of GrowingWisdom.com interviews Fire Belly Organic Lawn Care spokesman, Tom Kelly, about his organic lawn products. Granted, this is a commercial type of video, but it also has some good Q&A… Dave asked some “devil’s advocate” questions about organic lawn products.

Organic Lawn Care Made Easy

A lot of us take pride in our lawns, but would like to treat the earth more gently as we care for those lawns. Dave talks to Tom Kelly, of Fire Belly Organic Lawn Care, about a series of products that makes it easier to “go organic” with lawn care.

Even a couch-potato gardener could handle just three 15 minute applications a year! Yep, an organic lawn doesn’t have to be difficult…

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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, MARK FALCO. He is a lawn care expert, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Basic Lawn Care – Mowing, Scarifiers, Aeration, and Watering Tips
By Mark Falco

The arrival of summer heralds a time of increased wear and tear for the average garden lawn. Children’s yard games, barbecue parties, outdoor sports and generally more activity in the garden means your lawn is set to come in for something of a beating and without a little TLC is likely to start showing more than a little worse for wear. Stomp all over any living thing and it doesn’t respond too kindly but with a little help, your lawn can remain looking great all through summer and beyond!

Fertiziler

For a lusher, healthier, faster-growing lawn you can’t beat a bit of fertilizer. Test your soil type and choose a fertilizer to compliment this for best results. Most lawns will benefit from around three to four fertilizer applications through the year, with the first around a month before the start of the growinf season to give your grass a kickstart and then up to three more with approximately a two month gap in between applications can give good results. Read the rest of this entry »

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If the soil has lots of earthworms, then your lawn is healthy and vibrant.

If there are very few earthworms, it means one of two things… Either your soil is so nutrient poor that earthworms can’t survive, or pesticides have killed most of them.

Practicing natural, organic gardening lawn care can alleviate both of these problems. If you want a healthy green lawn that is earthworm-friendly, just follow these easy organic gardening lawn care basics: Read the rest of this entry »

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Lawns need sixteen elements to survive. Fortunately, for lawns, most are found naturally in the environment… but at least three need to be added.

The majority of “weekend” gardeners are not aware of this lawn care practice, so it’s no wonder lawns sicken and sometimes die.

Adding fertilizer containing the three missing elements (nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus) will do the job nicely.
Wait! Don’t run to the store yet.

Your lawn’s well-being depends on these three missing elements:

Here’s what you need to know about them: Read the rest of this entry »

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