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 …
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 :)
The author of today’s guest article about starting an organic lawn is a tree and lawn service specialist, as well as an ISA Certified Arborist.
Anyone interested in establishing an organic lawn needs to check out this highly informative article. It will help you decide if organic is the route you want to take…
Considering New York’s ban on lawn fertilizers and tightening restrictions in other states it seems inevitable that your lawn care will evolve as pesticide applications become more and more limited.
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.
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…
Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, Jeremy Bolton. He is an expert gardener, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.
Advantages of Using Organic Fertilizers
by Jeremy Bolton
These days, there is so much hype about organic fertilizers and its benefits. Most of us who have gotten used to chemical fertilizers are still skeptical whether facts are stretched too much to make it more appealing. Let us take a quick look at some of the advantages of using organic fertilizers so that you can decide whether it is really necessary to switch to organic fertilizer and organic gardening.
Long before the existence of synthetic fertilizers, plants obtained nutrients from decomposed organic matter such as bone, blood, fish and other organic waste, however it was the growth of farming and crop production that brought about so called “need” for synthetic fertilizers. As more research and studies have been conducted, the detrimental effects of chemical fertilizers are being made aware and more people and environmental groups are beginning to tout the advantages of the organic fertilizers that are readily available now. Read the rest of this entry »
If you do, you probably have gophers or ground moles. Do you know what to do?
Most household lawns are not large enough to attract gophers or ground moles in concentrated enough numbers to create a serious problem. Still, they can be a nuisance and cause damage to your grassy haven.
Telltale signs of ground moles and gophers…
Evidence of these animals are a little more obvious than most lawn garden pests. They deposit dirt hills on top of your lawn, usually next to holes… plus tunnels criss-cross beneath your lawn. An unsightly mess for sure. If these holes and tunnels cave in, you can have a serious ankle-turner.
If you decide the infestation is serious, you will need to take consistent, and sometimes aggressive, pest control measures. The first step is to find out what you’re dealing with, and then devise a method of control. Read the rest of this entry »
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