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Organically Managing Your Lawn and Garden

Organically Managing Your Lawn and Garden (organic gardening and organic lawn care)

Keeping organic yard and garden is one way to preserve the earth and one way to live a healthy lifestyle. Your lawn is more than a blank green carpet; it consists of various separate plants, and a food source to insects, birds and hosting flowers. The fun part is, you and your loved ones can plan on it. You do not need expensive chemicals to keep your yard, we have outlined some of the best ways to organically manage your law and your garden.

If this is your first time of starting an organic lawn, you need to start with a mix of clover and grasses, irrespective of what you are laying.

Red fescue; it is hardwearing and tolerant to drought. Such plants include creeping and slender varieties.

Bent grasses; they spread by their long creeping stems that extend over the surface of the soil. The nodes of the stems take root easily to form a thick and velvety turf. Bent grasses are mostly used for maintaining lawns like golf courses.

Clover; although clover is not a grass, it can stand as a natural fertilizer because it locks nitrogen into the soil. It keeps your lawn green during drought and bees feed on its flowers.

Ryegrass; it is perennial, hardwearing and can withstand drought.

Red fescue – Hardwearing and reasonably tolerant of drought – includes slender and creeping varieties.

How to maintain a lawn

Rake the grass

Gently rake the grass with a spring-tined rake in spring. Be careful not tear it. Raking removes winter dirt and lifts grass and weed foliage for effective cutting. You can leave the pile on the side of the yard for birds to make a nest out of it.

Sow bare patches as soon as the soil is warm. Break the soil up, and firm and level it before applying grass seed. Cover them with polythene or fleece to prevent birds from eating the seeds, and water regularly. Furthermore, you may be tempted to cut your grass, but do not cut it too short; especially when a sunny day leads to a nighttime frost.

Leave the clippings often all through summer; as they decompose, they release nitrogen, which provides 30% of the lawn’s required nutrients.

Prevent perennial weeds from growing in your lawn by digging them out regularly with a narrow trowel.

How to get rid of lawn troublemakers

Some factors snatch the joy of gardening away from you. Some of them are weeds, ants, and moles, just to name a few

Weeds: remove roots of weeds such as plantains, daisies, and dandelions with a knife. Secondly, fill the hole with light soil, and sow the grass seed again. Do not mow too low because it will weaken the grass and enable weeds to invade your lawn.

Ants: ants are harmless to your lawn, but we cannot deny the fact that they are annoying; they create unsightly nests. To get rid of them, you need to drown them.

Moles: mole hills make mowing the lawn difficult, you can repel them through flooding vibration, the smell of human urine, and you can also consult professionals to handle unwanted pests in your garden.