Organic Lawn Care
A
very good guide to maintaining a (relatively) weed free lawn and growing healthy soil without chemicals.
From the website:
Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
In a nutshell:Must do:
- Set your mower as high as it will go (3 to 4 inches).
- Water only when your grass shows signs of drought stress and then water deeply (put a cup in your sprinkler zone and make sure it gets at least an inch of water).
Optional:
- Fertilize with an organic fertilizer in the fall and spring. I recommend the Ringer brand.
- Have the pH of your soil professionally tested. Add lime if it is below 6.0 and gardener's sulfur if it is above 7.0.
- How much top soil do you have? See how deep a shovel will go into the soil. How deep can you dig a hole in one minute? If you have less than four inches of soil, you must add topsoil.
Now for the verbose details:
This is a game of competition. You want to make things favorable for the grass and unfavorable for the weeds so the grass will choke out the weeds. Naturally.
Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2005 9:31 PM