Organic lawn care tips: How to grow a green lawn organically
http://www.howdini.com/howdini-video-7561214.html Organic lawn care tips: How to grow a green lawn organically You don’t have to use chemicals to get a lush,…
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You shouldn’t get weeds if you’re treating the lawn soil properly with the right microbes. Weeds are a product of a diseased or de-mineralized soil. They actually have a purpose and are also a sign of improper soil food web.
JJ Bones
July 28, 2013 at 9:58 am
But it doesn’t clean the air of any pollutants we are releasing in to atmosphere, and in fact it’s production contributes to more pollution! The problem with us human beings is we are clever but not wise enough to realise the consequences of our actions. We need more NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY solutions to our problems rather than artificial cosmetic quick and easy fix make overs that add to the already existing problems!
nopoorcopies
July 28, 2013 at 9:58 am
Very informative
Frank Wolff
July 28, 2013 at 10:18 am
It could be a salt water swimming pool that is much cheaper to maintain than a chlorinated pool. I don’t assume anything when watching these “how to videos.”
ted marshall
July 28, 2013 at 10:35 am
20 minutest that’s too long. 12 minutes is fine.
desertstorm21
July 28, 2013 at 11:16 am
I’m planning on starting a garden in my back yard and to fix my yard and make it greener and “lusher” without using chemicals. I was wondering however if I use the corn gluten meal to suppress growth of weeds, would that also suppress growth of vegetables and flowers and the tree I plan on growing in my yard? Thanks.
mackayash
July 28, 2013 at 11:28 am
I water my lawn for twenty minutes, just after sunset.
If you water your lawn durring the day, some of that water will evaporate from the heat; thus, wasting water.
I keep the tree branches pruned; so that they don’t cut off too much of the sunlight.
I use manure to fertilize mine.
Whatever kind of fertalizer you may use, don’t use corn.
In the U.S., corn and corn-derived products are ussually from Monsanto
(I learned about Monsanto by watching the PBS documentary “King Corn”).
SinnFein4ever
July 28, 2013 at 11:54 am
You need more commercials, two minutes just isn’t enough on youtube!
siuwed
July 28, 2013 at 12:34 pm
@yellowbootsandsnowsh Who care as long as you don’t buy seeds that come from Monsanto.
luwdmke
July 28, 2013 at 1:13 pm
I just had to open my big mouth on that one…
erikinhawaii
July 28, 2013 at 1:50 pm
LOL!!!! I love your response,,, Ha Ha Ha!!! Good one
jamaicanvisa
July 28, 2013 at 2:21 pm
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.
sandworm3
July 28, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Poor poor Monsanto…
a1mint
July 28, 2013 at 3:35 pm
i have semi-automatic weapons so the neighborhood kids know not to play on my lawn
YoChr1s09
July 28, 2013 at 3:40 pm
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.
Nicole Tracy
July 28, 2013 at 4:24 pm
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?
stringfellowhawke247
July 28, 2013 at 5:11 pm
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
July 28, 2013 at 5:53 pm
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
wolfmother8719
July 28, 2013 at 6:47 pm
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.
winnipeguy75
July 28, 2013 at 6:58 pm
If you live in socal, you have to battle aggressive, nearly ineradicable weeds like Dallas grass, which is spread by illegal alien landscapers.
mmmmmarcus
July 28, 2013 at 7:41 pm
I’m sorry , really. Maybe I just was a little cranky. Did like the video though.
erikinhawaii
July 28, 2013 at 8:17 pm
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.
MegaBatboy123
July 28, 2013 at 8:49 pm
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
wiam333
July 28, 2013 at 9:20 pm