Organic Lawn Care Manual

The purpose of an organic lawn care manual is to provide an individual who is interested in switching from traditional methods to organic methods of lawn care. The use of organic lawn care means that there will not be any harsh chemicals used on the lawn which can be damaging to the environment as well as humans and animals. Many times after traditional lawn care companies get through fertilizing the lawn you will see signs telling you to keep your pets and children off of the lawn for at least a 24-hour period because they could be harmed by the chemicals. When you read an organic lawn care manual it will tell you how you can achieve the same beautiful lawns that traditional lawn care companies have without using any of those harmful chemical products.

Steps to Take

According to organic lawn care manuals the most critical times of the year for your lawn care is during the spring and early fall. In order to keep your lawn to set up and healthy all year long there are just a couple of simple steps that you need to take during these times of year. The first step that you want to take is to cut your lawn short, to a height of 2 inches, the first time you cut it in the spring and the last time you cut it in the fall. When you do this to your lawn in the fall it helps to keep fungus from growing during the course of those long winter months, and in the springtime, the shortcut gets rid of in a fungus that might have grown on your grass during those winter months.

One more really important step that you need to take in the spring and early fall is to check your soil for nutrients that it might be lacking. You can find the soil test kits in any of the local gardening stores and they will allow you to test your soil composition and determine what the deficiencies might be so that you can apply the appropriate fertilizers to correct the lacking deficiencies. When you know what the deficiencies are, you need to make sure that you get the right natural organic fertilizer which will correct the lacking minerals. You also need to make sure that fertilizers or slow releasing which means that they will be dispersed over a long period of time, rather than a quick shot which could burn your grass from over exposure.

You will also find that an organic lawn care manual will tell you to test for grubs in your lawn in the early spring so that they can be caught and killed while there are still larva. You can test for this by pulling up a section of your lawn one square foot wide and checking the roots. If you find that there are grubs in your roots then you need to apply nematodes to your lawn which will kill the larva. These nematodes are microscopic worms which eat the grub larvae and they can be bought through your gardening catalogues or at your local organic gardening store.