Ideal Bite

Ready to pull out your hair along with all the weeds in your yard?

06.27.2005

Submitted by idealbite on Mon, 06/27/2005 - 5:00pm.

The Bite:

Get a lovely field of green without using pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Use organic options for weed control and fertilizing. Not enough time to do it yourself? Hire an organic or integrated pest management-focused professional lawn company.

The Benefits:

It’s better for you, your family, the water supply, your lawn, and all the critters (including your pets) that live on, in and under your lawn.

Where pesticides are regularly applied, 60 to 90% of earthworms are killed. Earthworms are invaluable for soil health.
60-70 million birds are poisoned each year in the U.S. due to pesticide use.

Personally Speaking:

We would rather be in the garden (or doing anything else, really) instead of obsessing over the lawn -- so we hire an organic lawn care company to do it for us.

Wanna Try:

Weed Control: Corn glutton, available at most garden stores, is a natural by-product of corn processing and it acts as a pre-emergent herbicide reducing weed seedlings. Fertilizing: Use compost or organic fertilizers. Read labels carefully because you can have too much of a good thing!

Gardens Alive - full online, natural garden supply store
OrganicGardening.com - check out the list of fertilizers from Organic Gardening Magazine.
Naturalawn of America - let them worry about it for you!

Cocktail Fact

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both used sheep to keep their home lawns "mowed."

Bang For The Bite

It's definitely a bit more expensive than conventional methods. Still, if 1,000 people switched to natural lawn care for their acre of lawn, we'd decrease pesticide usage by an average of 6,000 pounds per year.

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