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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Tips for Natural Lawn and Garden Care

By Karen Moore

If you want to start getting involved with natural lawn and garden care the first step you are going to need to take is to find a natural lawn care product and even if one is advertised as being natural you are still going to want to read through the list of ingredients to make sure that it is all natural because some are listed as being so but are really not.

Basically the rule is that if you cannot pronounce an ingredient, it is not natural. You can also read reviews on a natural lawn and garden care product to learn more about it and decide whether or not it is going to be right for you.

Ideas

If you really want to offer natural lawn and garden care for the long term, there are a few ideas in particular that you are going to want to keep in mind. For one, you are going to want to mulch your grass clippings. This is completely natural and a great way to keep your grass and garden healthy.

You can make sure that you don't end up with a heavy layer of grass clippings on your lawn by using a mulching mower to chop up the grass clippings finely as you go along. This is very important because if there is a heavy layer of grass clippings left on the lawn it is going to basically smother the grass underneath and possibly end up killing it.

For proper natural lawn and garden care, you are going to want to make sure that you use all natural fertilizer as well. Compost also works very well, and not only will help your garden to strive but as well allows you to recycle. You can make your own compost simply by adding compostable materials.

This is a great natural lawn and garden care tip, and to make compost you want to use the right materials. This includes anything that was once living but remember that some items are best to be avoided such as meat, dairy and cooked food as it can attract vermin and so you do not want to home-compost these sorts of materials.

For best results, you want to use a mixture of types of ingredient. This way your compost will be the most effective, and bear in mind that the right balance is something that can really only be learnt by experience so as you continue to make compost you will get the hang of it.

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