Lawns Hub

Here is the thing about dealing with almost all issues relating to lawns: Going “green” is not like we are rediscovering the wheel.  The simple fact is, if you don’t use any fertilizer or pest control or weed control product whatsoever, there are some extremely simple ways of being totally Non Chemical. And some of them stem from very basic lawn care notions.

Perhaps most importantly of all, the height we mow our lawns at may be the single most important point to bear in mind.  Grass is a living plant.  It grows via photosynthesis and thereby needs a blade to convert sunlight into the sugars that feed the plant.  By cutting grass too short, we accomplish a staggering number of mistakes:

1.  We make the grass work harder to hustle back to the point where it can partake of photosynthesis. By this, we also make it use all the nutrition available on merely reestablishing itself to normality instead of investing in root growth.

2.  We allow weeds and broad leaves to compete.  Of all the methods of preventing weed growth in a lawn, this may be the most important.  Grass gets healthier faster with some length to its blades.  Meanwhile, the business end of any weed is at the tip, which gets cut by mowing.

3.  Leaving cuttings in the grass can be an effective fertilization.  We are after bacteria, worms and all sorts of living organisms to help us develop a healthy green lawn.  The salts and chemicals in petroleum fertilizers all act against just exactly this. There are actually organic fertilizers that work as well as a brief search on Google can relate.

4.  Watering.  Watering grass should be focused on the deeper start of roots.  Deep watering implies watering once for a bit of saturation, waiting just a bit, then watering very thoroughly so that the water can travel deeply into the earth, where we develop our most drought-tolerant system:  long, deep roots. Watering a lawn is like dealing with a sponge.  When first watered, some water will actually be repelled by the surface.  A small soaking first, waiting a bit, then we notice how the sponge fills up nicely, as if water is attracted to itself, which it is.

Simple adherence to simple tactics can make all the anal retentive s in the audience need new realms to worry over.  LOL, great lawns do indeed follow some simple tactical plans.