www.howdini.com Organic lawn care tips: How to grow a green lawn organically You don’t have to use chemicals to get a lush, green lawn. Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening shows how to green your lawn safely, without harmful chemicals. Keywords: organic lawn care tips green lawn care
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Scary is what people throw on their grass and have no idea or training in the appropriate application. My yard has been chemical free for 6 years. I am experimenting with aerating and seeding and feeding it compost. If there is a weed here or there I don’t get up tight about it, pull some, leave some. I would rather have a few weeds than cancer. Time to educate, it’s shameful to be dumping poison on the grass and contaminating water, and most that I see, their yard still looks like shit.
Poor poor Monsanto…
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@YoChr1s09 I am a Gardner for real.I have a Ninja-sword,ninja stars,sticks,axe,saw etc.
On time I did a work of art park,I saw this:I was just millimetre cutting the lawn.It was Great with trees,stones,a fake water source.The sun was shining.It was Paradic.A woman came down the street,with her dog,I had my back turned against them.When I turned my body,she forced her dog to shit rigth in the middle of Paradice,and walked slowly away,without picking it up.I had used 100 hours on 50 m2.It is WAR!
i have semi-automatic weapons so the neighborhood kids know not to play on my lawn
@stringfellowhawke247 Your best bet is to amend you soil with bacteria-happy composts and organic matter suck as, coconut husk, shredded leaves, herbivore manure, ect. This will make your sand plantable and will help it hold water and nutrients for your grass much better
If you plant a garden using this method, it will need to be repeated each year.
I’ve been trying to find an answer, but no luck so far and hope maybe someone here can help. I live in Florida and my front yard has a lot of sand in it. What can I do to get it back to dirt so I can add grass seed to it?
@wolfmother8719 I am a HUGE advocate of using “lawn space” to grow food instead. Good for you!! Upkeep on a mini orchard will still be work (maybe even more so than a lawn) but all that work gives you ten times more. Where we have lawn (for our kids to play) is about 50% clover. We edge all our side walks with marigold (repels mosquitos) and swiss chard (great as a spinach substitute). Our “flower beds” are all herbs and edible flowers. Anything not eaten by us is taken care of by the chickens.
@winnipeguy75 Clover? that sounds wonderful to have an lawn of that instead of grass, but I thinking of turning my front lawn into an mini orchard, which takes care of two things our food budget and the effort and time use spent on lawn up keep, mmmh
I’m surprised clover wasn’t mentioned in this video. A lawn that has plenty of clover is attractive, soft to walk on, and self fertilizing. Clover is a legume that produced it’s own nitrogen. It also slows the growth of your grass without harming it. You can cut less frequently, and this is priority #1 if you care about the environment. Especially if you use a gas mower. If you find the need to fertilize, don’t waste your money on the fertilizers shown here. Use well rotted manure or compost.
If you live in socal, you have to battle aggressive, nearly ineradicable weeds like Dallas grass, which is spread by illegal alien landscapers.
@erikinhawaii don’t worry
and happy to hear that you like the video. I am sorry too if I made you feel uncomfortable…
@redbutterflyz I’m sorry , really. Maybe I just was a little cranky. Did like the video though.
I bow down humbly in the prnesece of such greatness.
@MegaBatboy123 good suggestion. Thanks!
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If you want to leave the clippings on the yard, as he suggests at the end, get a mulching mower, or see if your mower will mulch. If you’re not cutting a ridiculous amount of grass off the top, it will look like it was bagged. A mulching mower traps the grass cut under the mower and chops it up really small, the blade is designed to create lift on the uncut grass, and lets the small pieces fall down to the roots. Looks good and it’s good for your grass, if cut regularly.
@erikinhawaii It might be a salt water pool, it has chlorine but way less than an only chlorine pool. Salt water pool is the way to go
Urea is a chemical. Yes.
What is an organic compound? A carbon based chemical. The world gets a little bit stupider every year. This type of branding just makes it worse.
@luwdmke And it increases flooding problems.
Thank you for the great info
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correction; every lawn needs TO GET NUTRIENTS, it doesn’t necessarilly need to be fertalized by you.
scott meyer is a great teacher! i learned a lot thanks howdini
@cheerfulleigh Epsom salts are not actually a salt but contains Phospherous and nitrogen. The sugar acts as a stimulant. Mix 4lbs epsom with 1lb confectioners sugar with your regular fertilizer. Spread as usual. You can Googlesearch that combo to see results. This combo gives a deep green lawn. Also try a bag of organic nitrogen from home depot. Its about $12 and will not burn your lawn. Works great.