Tips For Care: Organic Lawn Care Manual

Organic lawn care manuals provide an organic lawn care program for individuals who are interested in changing over from traditional methods of caring for their lawns. Organic lawn care means that there are not any chemicals that are used on the lawns that can cause damage to the environment and are hazardous to humans and animals. There are often signs placed on lawns after traditional lawn care companies do their work warning to keep pets and children off of the lawn for at least twenty-four hours because pesticides or fertilizers have been used that could harm them. Organic lawn care manuals tell how to produce the same beautiful lawns without using these harmful products.

Steps to Take

Two of the most critical times of year according to organic lawn care manuals are the spring and early fall. There are important yet simple steps to take during these times that will set the lawn up for health the rest of the year. The first step according to organic lawn care manuals is to cut the lawn short, to a two inch height, the first cut of the year and the last cut of the year. Doing this in the fall helps to prevent fungus from growing over the course of the winter months, and in the spring, the shorter cut removes whatever fungus might have taken hold during the winter.

Another critical step to take in the spring and early fall according to organic lawn care manuals is to check the soil for the nutrients that it needs. There are soil tests that can be found in gardening stores that allow the individuals to test the soil composition of their lawns and determine what the deficiencies are so that the appropriate fertilizers can be added. Once the deficiencies are found, the fertilizers added should be non-synthetic, meaning all natural, and should also be slow releasing so that the nutrients are dispersed over time rather than burning the grass from too much exposure.

Organic lawn care manuals also recommend that the individuals test for grubs in the early spring so that they can be caught in the larval stage and killed. The way to test for this is to pull up a foot squared section of grass and check the roots. If there are grubs in the roots then nemotodes need to be bought to kill the larvae. Nemotodes are microscopic worms that eat the larvae and can be bought through gardening catalogues.