The Organic Lawn and Garden: Some Things to Consider
You are remembering to exercise, to take quality nutritional supplements and to eat food grown locally, to drink filtered water and breathe in purified indoor air. You are vigilant in watching what household cleaners you use. You are off to a tremendous start to a healthier you and a green way of life--almost. It's a Saturday morning, and as you step outside the door, you look across your beautiful, green lawn, fertilized with pesticides and toxic chemicals. Your puppy and two children follow you on a walk to the backyard garden, which is also carefully sprayed to keep insects away. Stop!! Do you realize what you have done? You have put everyone who walks or plays in that lawn and garden in harm's way.

Your lawn and garden are two items in your immediate environment that you DO HAVE CONTROL over. You can chose organic lawn and garden products that are completely safe to use on your landscape. Natural, slow-releasing fertilizers (such as blood meal)or weed preventers (e.g. corn gluten) can be used to beautify and protect your lawn. Just keeping it healthy by aerating so that both air and water are better available to the grasses' roots will increase its density, and weeds will be choked off. Keeping the blades of grass at least 3 inches will also keep a lawn green and intimidate young sprouts of weeds.
The clippings, as you may know, can be used in the garden to nourish and stifle weeds. But did you also know that newspapers can be used around the base of plants to block weeds from forming? Moreover,composting is a great way to help insure an organic garden and lawn. The composter is safe for humans and the environment. Besides cost-savings, its contents improve root systems and soil and for lawns, helps heat and drought tolerance.
Soil quality determines plant quality. Learn how to compost to enrich your organic soil.
Organic Lawn Care Products
Taking the time to educate one's self on the organic lawn care products can pay off nicely for lawn and garden in results. In the future, this site will begin sharing more specific ideas to green the lawn and garden. Natural Landscaping Solutions has some great organic solutions to greening the lawn without using pesticides or toxins. Their unique organic lawn applications will allow your lawn to flourish and attain deep root systems. Natural Landscaping Solutions offers a variety of products that are easy to apply to any size lawn. You don't have to look any further than Garden's Alive to meet your organic gardening needs. This organic lawn and garden store has great new products such as Bio-Boost Natural Fertilizer,Compost Digester for the garden, and Lawn-Gard Bioinsecticide for keeping your lawn safeguarded and green. You may also be impressed with the wide range of ideas and tips (see the informational library!) and other creative, safe and organic products available at Gardens Alive. If you haven't explored this lawn and garden store, you are in for a treat:
Organic Gardening
Organic gardening can not only deliver nutritious and healthy food at the table, but also fulfill the need to be close to nature. Starting your own organic garden can be both fun and creative. Click on ORGANIC GARDENING to learn some great tips on how to begin this rewarding activity.
Many individuals who love an organic natural backyard also love to listen and feed Wild Birds, Creatively designed BIRDHOUSES and BIRDFEEDERS are now available in many creative colors. If you simply Love Birds, you may be interested in the next page of products that focuses entirely on wild birds and squirrels. Click anywhere in this paragraph!
Soil condition determines both growth and productivity. Farmers, in particular, must rely upon the richness and nutrition of the soil to produce healthy crops. Super "C" Soil Conditioner may be just what you have been looking for to improve your lawn, garden or farm.
Interested in more ideas for the lawn and garden? See more organic lawn care products below.
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