Organic Lawn Care Tips

Individuals and companies have been providing lawn care services for their clients for years and years. Most of these companies and individuals have been using traditional methods of lawn care maintenance which normally include the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides which are very harmful to the environment. Because of the harmful nature of traditional lawn care methods many people are turning to organic lawn care, which is a method using all natural fertilizers and pest remedies to nurture your lawn. You can find lots of organic lawn care tips and gardening magazines, gardening manuals, and many websites as well as in nurseries. It doesn't take a lot to switch over to organic methods and when you do you can feel confident that your lawn will be healthy and lush and you can feel safe about your pets and children playing on it endlessly.

Healthy Soil and Blades

The Main objective on organic lawn care tips is to provide you with the information you need to keep your soil healthy. This is because your soil is the foundation on which your lawn grows. I just simply makes sense that if your soil is unhealthy than your lawn will be healthy either. Signs of an unhealthy lawn includes stunted growth, brown blades, and empty bare patches. It is advised that you check the makeup of your soil two times a year: one time in the spring and another time in the early fall. The springtime check will provide you with information you need to provide the correct amount of organic fertilizer to your lawn so it will grow all summer long. The fall check with provide you with information you need to give the soil all the nutrients it needs to keep your roots healthy during the long winter months, and provide it with the nutrients to give it a nice start, come the next spring. Make sure that you only use natural and organic fertilizers that are slow releasing as these are the best for your soil and grass.

After your first cut in the spring you need to raise the your mower height to around three or 3 1/2 inches so that your grass will stay longer. The reason for this is that it blocks out the sun which keeps weeds from sprouting up. It also allows your lawn to develop stronger roots, which in turn makes it much healthier. The only option to the 3 to 3 1/2 inch height rule is as I said the first cut in the spring in the spring and the last cut in the fall. These cuts are critical because they will take away any of the fungus that might have built up on your grass blades during winter and also it will help to ensure that the fungus is not going to grow on your grass blades during the winter because they will be to short.

As you no weeds always play an issue in your lawn and having the longer grass will help to address this problem. There will however be some weeds that manage to develop and your lawn. There are a couple of organic lawn care tips that will address how to handle this problem. The first and most obvious ways to pull the weeds by hand, which removes the entire root system rather than simply just mowing the top of the weeds. You can also use water to loosen up the roots which will make them a little easier to pull. For weeds that are really grown in, or ones that are just really hard to pull up, you can put a solution of half vinegar and half water onto the weeds which will kill them. When they are dead you can easily remove the entire weed including the roots.