23 March 2008 - 16:16Organic lawn care help–fertilizer and weed control???

m t asked:

ok…i’ve taken the first step to stop poisoning my lawn…go organic but i really have no clue about any good brands out there. i’ve looked around some websites but i could use some help with some good brand name organic lawn fertilizer and weed control…for the spring.

Question posted courtesy of: Louis
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2 Comments | Tags: lawn care

Comments:

  1. Grain And Grit says;
    26 Mar 2008 - 20:07

    My suggestion is built on molases and allow for organic weed control there really isnt anything out there could try rutopia by griffin industries roots by.
    For organic weed control there of is products that is used in the liquid side you can work as general fertilizer these are very well as post emergent herbicide lot of the ag turf that are very slow.

  2. thisbrit says;
    28 Mar 2008 - 21:23

    One f the whole points of organic gardening - whether grass/lawn/veggie patch - is that there is not a need to BUY stuff to amend the soil. Hay and leaves and compost (the product of weeding and food scraps) can be used and thereby avoid the use of store bought things.

    Start a compost pile as SOON AS POSS. The soil that comes out of a compost pile is the best amendment to the lawn, or the veggie patch.

    Then enjoy a few hours after work in the lawn PULLING the dandelions by hand with a forked end digger (ask in the garden supply shop). Weeds go into the pile and make next year’s compost. It is healthier than TV!

    I do suggest you start now. I have a lovely lawn, mowed to high grass level (which helps keep the moisture in in the summer and the cold out in the winter), and then I pull weeds and pull weeds.

    One year I paid my sons a penny a dandelion (root and all), and I gave out over $20.00 during that spring! They were tickled!! and I was not so! But now I am not nearly so plagued with dandelions as in the first couple of years in this home.