Organic lawn care tips: How to grow a green lawn organically

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[MegaTmarshall]

@erikinhawaii 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."

[mackayash]

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.

[SinnFein4ever]

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").

[desertstorm21]

@SinnFein4ever 20 minutest that's too long. 12 minutes is fine.

[siuwed]

You need more commercials, two minutes just isn't enough on youtube!

[jamaicanvisa]

@erikinhawaii LOL!!!! I love your response,,, Ha Ha Ha!!! Good one

[erikinhawaii]

@jamaicanvisa I just had to open my big mouth on that one...

[sandworm3]

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.

[a1mint]

Poor poor Monsanto...

[YoChr1s09]

i have semi-automatic weapons so the neighborhood kids know not to play on my lawn

[stringfellowhawke247]

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?

[nicolemtracy]

@stringfellowhawke247 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.

[winnipeguy75]

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.

[wolfmother8719]

@winnipeguy75 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

[winnipeguy75]

@wolfmother8719 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.

[mmmmmarcus]

If you live in socal, you have to battle aggressive, nearly ineradicable weeds like Dallas grass, which is spread by illegal alien landscapers.

[redbutterflyz]

@erikinhawaii You just can't let other people say right things.　Quibble.

[erikinhawaii]

@redbutterflyz I'm sorry , really. Maybe I just was a little cranky. Did like the video though.

[redbutterflyz]

@erikinhawaii don't worry :) and happy to hear that you like the video. I am sorry too if I made you feel uncomfortable...

[dakosoft1]

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[MegaBatboy123]

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.

[redbutterflyz]

@MegaBatboy123 good suggestion. Thanks!

[wiam333]

@erikinhawaii 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

[CommentClown]

Urea is a chemical. Yes.

What is an organic compound? A carbon based chemical. The world gets a little bit stupider every year. This type of branding just makes it worse.

[txrepgirl]

Thank you for the great info :) .

[miketonon]

correction; every lawn needs TO GET NUTRIENTS, it doesn't necessarilly need to be fertalized by you.

[TheHabit00]

scott meyer is a great teacher! i learned a lot thanks howdini

[flavordave73]

Epsom salt and sugar. Bam

[cheerfulleigh]

@flavordave73  What does Epxome salt and suger do? Fill me in please.

[flavordave73]

@cheerfulleigh Epsom salts are not actually a salt but contains Phospherous and nitrogen. The sugar acts as a stimulant. Mix 4lbs epsom with 1lb confectioners sugar with your regular fertilizer. Spread as usual. You can Googlesearch that combo to see results. This combo gives a deep green lawn. Also try a bag of organic nitrogen from home depot. Its about $12 and will not burn your lawn. Works great.

[Thezipprite1]

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[steve89z]

exc advice,exactly what i do,but this year i now have a push reel mower,no gas,oil,and that mess! and it pushes easier than my gas one!

[katkollmer]

What about Cockapoo?

[AIRSOFT24503]

@katkollmer you have a cockapoo, so do i!

[katkollmer]

@AIRSOFT24503 lol...no I mean Chicken poo?

[RedPillProject]

plant FOOD, not Grass!

(unless you actually plan on feeding your grass to your animals...)

[Tommos34]

what do you do if you have mesh growing in your yard? i have a big tree in my yard and can never get good grass because of the roots under the tree. Every other area in my yard looks great exeecpt the area where this tree is. What can be done without harming the tree to prevent this?

[bluejacket83]

@Tommos34 honestly, nothing i think

[GardenDocSC]

Beckman, you are, simply, wrong. Synthetic fertilizers do not bind to the soil, and run off or leach through the ground. An organic 3-1-5 will do a better and longer lasting job. The microbes in your soils will utilize it better. What good is 28% N if 95% of it ends up in the local rivers or aquifers.

And Nacho, the reason he recommends a taller grass is that it shades out/chokes out weeds.

Go look at videos from OrganicTexas. They explain it all perfectly.

[katkollmer]

@GardenDocSC Yep...I am from Texas and growing the bermuda and Augustine long will prevent weeds. I never use weed and feed ever!

[luwdmke]

If you just put astro turf down it solves all your weeding, feeding and cutting problems. It also stays green and it's pesticide free.

[kmsiever]

@luwdmke And it increases flooding problems.

[yellowbootsandsnowsh]

@luwdmke what grade of plastic is it-- 

[luwdmke]

@yellowbootsandsnowsh Who care as long as you don't buy seeds that come from Monsanto.

[nacholibreanglais]

but shorter grass looks smarter and neater? cutting the grass so it still has length will look as if it hasnt been cut? the point is???

[bluejacket83]

@nacholibreanglais the point is to save the environment....agreed, i keep my lawn short. midway on the deck height

[beckmanb72]

The 3-1-5 luscious lawn & garden organic fertilizer looks like a joke. The 3 is nitrogen which grass needs the most. Most traditional lawn fertilizers are 28-1-1. The organic fertilizer is taken from the environment which is depriving some other ecosystem. In addition the word chemical is used too loosely, I drink chemicals every day such as water.