3 Tips for Organic Gardening Lawn Care

Here are three tips for organic gardening lawn care from garden author Doug Green at HTTP://www.beginner--gardening.com The first tip is to mow the grass as tall as your machine will let you, in most cases this is around the 2-3 inch mark. A you can mow it a bit shorter in the early spring but by late spring to early summer you should be at the tallest setting on your mower.

In the fall, top dress with 2 pounds of grass seed per thousand square feet of lawn. This will thicken up the lawn and healthy, thick grass will fight off weeds by reducing the amount of sunlight that gets to the soil and encourages germination of weed seed. A thick organic lawn is your best first defense against weeds.

The third tip is to use corn gluten in the spring to stop small seeds from germinating. Apply it when the forsythia start blooming for best results and water it thoroughly after application.

With the thick turf grass on your lawn stopping weeds from germinating and the corn gluten doing the same, the vast majority of weeds will not get started.

And that's how you create great organic lawn care. You can ask questions at http://www.beginner-gardening.com/lawns.html

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[Shelovessherry]

Doug, if corn gluten prevents seeds from germinating, how does the grass seed sprout? Or does corn gluten stay effective for only a certain length of time? (In which case, will I have dandelions sprouting by mid-summer??) I used corn gluten for the first time this past spring, and I must say it does seem to be working. I'll raise my mower blades and do the grass seed thing this fall and see how it goes. Thanks for all your good advice!

[headgardener2u]

@Shelovessherry check out the lawn care pages at my beginner-gardening website All your questions are answered there. :-)

[insomniacgrace]

thanks for posting this, this is so interesting and indeed, informative.

[GardenToolCaddy]

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[Riddick4437]

Surely there must be more.  Will one application of corn gluten in the spring feed the grass until it goes dormant again?

[redalertvq]

Pretty good, But for anyone reading that lives in the south, I think It should be made clear that certain grass types like the Hybrid Bermuda varieties are the opposite when it comes to mowing. You want Hybrid Bermuda at 3/4 inch or half inch or even shorter depending on what variety. Hybrid Bermuda takes on a prostrate growing habit when mowed correctly and that will choke out weeds on a Bermuda lawn. Someone I know had there Hybrid @ 3 inches and the weeds took over 80% of the lawn.

[steve89z]

thanks!

[JuanitaHasey]

sounds like something even we can do - and no worry about children ingesting chemicals.

[afarmgirl2]

Good advice!  Thanks!