How to get a great looking lawn

what's the nature of your lawn problem?

Corn gluten meal is used as an organic fungicide when spread on the lawn. Alfalfa meal or pellets are used as a fertilizer. Neither of those are household, but can be bought at feed stores.

Jerry Baker uses things like cola, beer, dish soap, and the like in his lawn and garden advice. Honestly, though, lawns really aren't environmentally friendly.

Well, my lawn doesn't look to bad. It is just not very full in some spots and all of the people that live next to me have someone come in and spray there lawns to look really green and pretty. I was just wondering if there is anything I can use to help out my natural lawn.

There are organic fertilizers that will help your lawn - a good garden center should be able to point you in the right direction. Adequate water is also important. If you fertilize and water your lawn should be healthy enough to block out all/most weeds unless it has a disease (fungus). If so, then you'd need to treat that, and there are organic treatments available for many lawn problems.

well i'm in the south and we get grubs sometimes or not so good nematodes. not sure if that's a problem in your neck of the woods or not. you might like to look at www.gardensalive.com and see if they have anything for you.

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I don't understand what you mean by 'lawns aren't environmentally friendly'

It's a mono culture of a plant that is generally non-native to the environment it's planted in. Grass takes a great deal of nutrients from the soil (hence the reason lawns need to be fertilized) and has a very low bio mass. In areas with less rainfall, lawns end up diverting vital resources.

I don't know much on this topic so I'm sure there's more, that's just what I thought of off the top of my head.

thanks, I had no idea

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One article: http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/drought.cfm
And, Wikipedia has a section on lawn criticisms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn#Criticisms

BTW, if you follow the link to "organic lawns" from that wiki entry, there is lots of good information.