There are many reasons to turn to organic lawn fertilizer over the chemical based types. Natural choices are better not only for the environment, but also for both your lawn and pocketbook.
When you use non-organic chemical based fertilizers, there’s a danger of getting the wrong combination and using
something too harsh on your lawn. Even the heartiest kinds of grasses will curl, turn brown and even disappear for a lawn if they don’t get the nutrients and oxygen needed to survive.
Organic simply means the fertilizer is processed naturally without many synthetic ingredients. Natural organic lawn fertilizer can have such components as:
Manure
Peat
Seaweed
Bat guano
Crop residue
Bone meal
Fish meal
Minerals such as mine rock phosphate or limestone. The best benefit of organic lawn fertilizer is it by nature slowly releases nutrients. This slow release improves the soil structure and reduces waster. This slower deliberate release happens over a long time and minimizes the risk of the lawn over growing too quickly. It also cuts down on weed growth while still getting more nutrients to the grass roots.
Organic lawn fertilizer also reduces the destruction of beneficial microbes in most plants. Non-organic fertilizer often suppresses plants from growing in a healthy manner, but organic fertilizer can keep them stronger. While it might be necessary to do a little more shopping around for organic lawn fertilizer since for so long the trend has been chemical fertilizers you will find organics to be less expensive.
There are few must do’s to keep your lawn in a lush organic manner:
Your grass doesn’t have to be too short, as this might mean having to water it more often. If the mower is set as high as it will go, which is usually 3 to 4 inches you will have to water less often.
Only water why the grass is actually showing signs of drought stress, and then you need to water deeply. Keep a measurement of the sprinkler or hose output and make sure the grass gets at least an inch of water. Then use an organic lawn fertilizer in the autumn and spring. This will give you a green lawn in more ways than one.