Easy Organic Lawn Care

 It is commonly thought that the beautiful lawn that you get from easy organic lawn care can only be achieved if you hire a professional lawn care service to take care of it for you, but the truth is it doesn't matter whether you want to do organic lawn care or use methods that are traditional there are some simple things that you can do to keep your lawn healthy and weed free.

Care of Your Soil

Before spring arrives and during the early fall there are some important but easy steps that you need to take to make sure that the soil underneath your lawn stays healthy. Over time your soil can get compacted and cause your grass to become root bound. One of the things that you can do to solve this problem is to pull plugs out of your grass which increases aeration. You can go to any rental store and find machines that will pull these plugs out of your grass. Or if you don't wish to do it yourself you can also call up a lawn company, and they will come out a couple times a year to do this for you. No matter if you choose to do it or you have the lawn company do it, the plugs need to be left on the lawn so that they can break down and provide nutrients to your lawn which will help it to grow.

Another thing you can do to take care of your lawn for the spring and early fall is to check the soils nutrient properties and find out what might be lacking. You can find simple soil testing kits at any garden supply store that will give you the specific nutrients that your soil may be lacking. After you have completed the test, you should go to the store and purchase the specific fertilizer that meets the lawns deficiency requirements. If when you are placing the fertilizer on your lawn, some of it falls on your sidewalk or driveway, you should make sure that it gets swept back on the lawn so it doesn't get wasted or run into the sewer with rainfall.

 Taking Care of Pests

There are some pests that need to be taken care of in lawn care such as grubs. In the spring, a section of grass should be pulled up to check if there are grubs in the root system. If there are, one solution to this is to buy nemotodes from a garden supply store or catalogue. Nemotodes are microscopic worms that will kill the grub larvae so that the grubs never are able to affect the roots.

In order to kill other pests, shrubs and trees should be planted around the yard to attract birds that will eat these insects. In addition, ladybugs and green lacewings can be bought from garden supply stores which will also help to fight destructive insects from destroying the lawn.