Why Should You Switch To Organic Lawn Care?
Why should you switch to organic lawn care?
What are the Benefits?
It is safer for humans, pets and the environment than synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
It improves the quality of the soil, which will have an increased ability to retain water and nutrients.
You will enjoy significant financial savings by transitioning from synthetic to organic lawn care, especially after the first year of use.
Organic products will significantly reduce pests by restoring balance to your lawns ecosystem. You will benefit from reduced maintenance in mowing, watering and fertilizing because you will have a naturally stronger and healthier lawn.
Dangers of chemical/synthetic lawn products!
A report by the National Academy of Sciences shows that the health of 1 in 7 people is negatively impacted in some form by lawn pesticides. Numerous studies link lawn chemicals to cancers and other long-term diseases. Several studies also link exposure to artificial lawn chemicals to an increased risk of cancer and other health problems in pets.
Children are especially at risk for negative health consequences due to their size, physiological development and proximity to the ground.
Synthetic pesticides and fertilizers destroy the naturally present beneficial organisms in a healthy lawns ecosystem. This destruction then transforms your lawn into an increasingly needy junkie, requiring more and more chemicals to sustain it.
Focused Results
Organic lawn care focuses instead on soil management techniques and long-term results, building up the nutrients and organisms in the soil in order to make your lawn better able to withstand drought, pests, and other common problems. Organic lawn care also eliminates damage to the environment and to human and animal health caused by synthetic lawn care products.
Organic products function by building up life in the soil, or soil biology, their payoff is more long-term and lasting.
Synthetic products, by their nature, are instantaneous and must be frequently reapplied in greater amounts to maintain the appearance of the grass due to the need for frequent reapplications and the reduced effectiveness of synthetic chemicals.
The user of organic products will spend considerably less money on lawn care over a two-year period than the user of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
The time of using chemically processed synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides is ending. Already, regulations and restrictions prompted by numerous studies of the adverse health effects of these, especially in children, groundwater contamination, food source contamination, and soil analysis (humus, soil structure and soil bioactivity) are limiting the scope of their use.
An organic lawn cared for correctly and naturally, will eventually begin to take care of itself in many ways. Good bio-active, nutrient rich, soil requires less fertilization, irrigation, and weed and insect control saving you time and money. Organic lawn maintenance practices eliminate imbalances in the soil, which are the initial causes of disease, weed, pest and stress problems in your lawn. By eliminating these causation factors, you eliminate the time and money spent dealing with these types of problems. In the end, you have to look at the big picture. A little extra time and money spent this year will save you a great deal of time and money down the road.
Organic lawn liquid fertilizers are supplemented with a natural nutrient package derived from seaweed and humic acids (One gallon of humic acid is equivalent to 7 tons of manure in terms of soil bioactivation). What this means you is get a soil improving fertilizer with added vitamins, bio-stimulants, and trace elements. Each product contains vitamins B-1, B-12, gibberellins, indoles, auxins as well as trace elements of boron, iron, zinc, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum and sulfur. The nutrients in these liquid fertilizers are chelated, meaning they are instantly available to the plant.
What you should expect
Season One
One of the things that will be happening as you go through your first season using organics is that your lawn may go through withdrawal symptoms because of the reduced nitrogen. The intensity of this withdrawal is related directly to the number of years you have applied chemicals, the frequency of previous chemical applications and the application rate of those chemicals.
Chemical fertilizers typically contain about 20 to 35 percent nitrogen. Organic fertilizers will be more like 8 to 16 percent. That is a huge drop in nitrogen, and your lawn could go into shock if you dont compensate. You can double the amount of organic fertilizer or increase the frequency of application without causing any harm to your lawn.
Season Two
Over the next season or two, simply start cutting back on the amount of nitrogen youre applying. As the soil is built up by use of organic fertilizers and soil amendments, the lawn will require less and less supplemental nitrogen.
Depending upon how long youve been using chemical fertilizer and how much youve been using, this process may take longer or may go much more quickly than is outlined above.
Organic methods tend to expose imbalances in the soil and other detrimental situations that chemical fertilizers hide (and generally make worse) such as soil compaction, weeds, insects, disease, drainage, poor Brix levels, and above all scant Humus and correct them.
By implementing a solid natural/organic lawn care program, you should be looking at a very healthy, chemical free lawn within about a season or two, maybe three if your lawn is in really bad shape.
by: Steve Stout
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