Courtesy of the inspiring Katherine Abbott, here are 8 tips on how to make your church, synagogue, mosque (or school, town hall, or residential) lawn into an organic paradise.
To make a church or temple lawn both aesthetically pleasing and absolutely safe to walk and play, adopt these key organic practices:
1. Use organic fertilizer.
2. Reseed often so that grass can out-compete the weeds.
3. Mow relatively high so that established grass can shade out weed seeds.
4. Use corn gluten in late March, early April, as a pre-emergent weed killer.
5. Hand weed, possibly using students as summer help.
6. In Fall, when crab grass, an annual plant, dies at the first frost, dig it out and sew seed of desirable grass, which is a perennial.
7. For grub problems, use milky spore or nematodes.
8. Water longer but less often to quench deep grass roots but discourage weed seed growth on the surface.
(image via: http://www.idletype.com/index.php/image/grass/)
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