Ideal growing conditions are essential for successful lawn garden care and maintenance, because they generate healthy grass. And healthy grass overcomes weeds and resists droughts, pests, and diseases.

Healthy grass needs loamy soil and the right amount of water… two very crucial ingredients of effective lawn care and maintenance.

How to have the right soil conditions for healthy grass:

The ideal soil is a loamy combination of sand, silt, and clay because it absorbs water readily and stores it.

Here’s how to determine if your soil is the right consistency… Squeeze a handful of moist soil. If it doesn’t hold its shape when squeezed, then it has too much sand. If it sticks together and barely breaks apart (if at all) when touched, then it has too much clay. If it holds its shape until poked, and then crumbles, then celebrate… you have loamy soil! This is the absolute best soil consistency for a healthy lawn. 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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What’s the secret to having the perfect organic lawn? Just combine organic products with these 3 traditional gardening techniques:

1. Enrich the soil with organic compost…

Grass thrives in loamy (crumbly) soil. Here’s a simple way to check for loamy soil…

Squeeze a handful of moist soil. Does it hold its shape? Now, poke or touch it. Does it crumble? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you have loamy soil.

If, however, it sticks together and barely breaks apart (if at all) when touched, then it has too much clay. Or, if it doesn’t hold its shape when squeezed, then it has too much sand. Read the rest of this entry »

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There is nothing quite so delicious as cool, green grass under bare feet. Can you design a lawn so this is no longer just a remembered sensation?

Absolutely! Just follow these 4 easy steps…

Step 1: Design your lawn garden…

First of all, thinking “lawn garden” instead of just “lawn” will help you come up with the right design. It’s also much easier to accomplish this before putting the lawn in.

But it’s not impossible to get it right, even after the fact. Executing your design will just take a bit more effort.

Decide how many flower beds you want, where to plant trees and shrubs, whether you want a pond, where the sidewalks and other paths will be, whether to include a fence, a trellis, or even a bridge… Read the rest of this entry »

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