Reply to Neighbor Complaining About Our Lawn Care

Forum Index » Lawn and Garden

Reply to "Neighbor Complaining About Our Lawn Care - Weeds/Pests"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't read all the replies, but this may have been mentioned already...ideas to improve your lawn without hand-pulling weeds.

Use corn gluten in the early spring to prevent weed seeds (like crabgrass) from sprouting.  It is non-toxic, and I think it's an ingredient in some pet foods.  It also serves as a mild fertilizer for your lawn/garden.  The main thing to be aware of is that you don't want to put it down in an area where you are trying to get seeds to sprout, i.e. to reseed an area of your lawn or grow veggies from seed.  I think the anti-germination effect lasts for 6-8 weeks??  Another thing you can do is to reseed your lawn in the fall, although grass needs pretty frequent watering to get established, which will help choke out some of the weeds.  You should fertilize your grass once a year in the fall to encourage the actual grass to grow better and choke out weeds.  Some fertilizers aren't too horrible for kids/pets.  Also google the type of soil conditions that crabgrass likes--I forget what it  indicates about your yard, but you may be able to spread some kind of fertilizer or ph changer on your yard once or once a year to discourage crabgrass.

Good luck![/quote]

How about I try to get around to mowing every couple weeks between April and October?  Once it's all 3 inches tall it all sorta looks like grass.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics