Organic Lawn Care Services
Organic & Transitional
Lawn Treatment Packages
Environmentally Friendly Lawn Care
The purpose of our 100% Organic and our Transitional Organic Lawn Treatment Programs, is to reduce or eliminate the use of conventional herbicides and synthetic fertilizers on your lawn.
100% Organic Lawn Treatment Package
Our 100% Organic Lawn fertilization package: includes three (3) organic ultra slow release fertilizer treatments throughout the growing season. These treatments will feed your lawn with Nitrogen, Potash and organic matter that helps feed and improve your lawn, while also helping to build healthy soils. No herbicides, pesticides or synthetic fertilizers are used for any these (3) 100% Organic lawn care treatments.
1) Spring Fertilizer - 100% OMRI Certified Organic - Corn Gluten Meal Application
2) Early Summer Fertilizer - 100% OMRI Certified Organic - Organic Turkey litter Meal Application
3) Fall Fertilizer - 100% OMRI Certified Organic - Turkey litter Meal Application
Organic Lawn Care Benefits and Expectations
Benefits of Organic Lawn Care
- No herbicides, pesticides or weed killer used
- Utilizes only 100% OMRI organic listed fertilizers for plant nutrition - no synthetic fertilizers
- Begins the process of building up the weed controlling di-peptides found in organic corn gluten meal
- The slow release organic fertilizers improve soil health by providing ultra slow release nutrients and organic material used by beneficial soil microorganisms
Weed Control - Rethinking What a Healthy Lawn Looks Like
- There is no OMRI certified organic selective weeds killers on the market. This means there is no certified organic product that can be used to effectively kill weeds in your lawn with (1) simple spray treatment, without also killing the grass. So it's important to know that changing to 100% organic lawn care means that your lawn will have weeds.
- The corn gluten meal we use for our spring lawn fertilization treatment does have some pre-emergent weed control qualities. Studies have shown that it can help prevent some crabgrass germination. However, it is very clear that corn gluten is not nearly as effective as a non-organic conventional crabgrass prevention herbicide, like dithiopyr. For more information on corn gluten meals weed control capabilities, check out the Corn Gluten Meal Research done by Iowa State University.
- Organic lawn care involves rethinking what a healthy lawn is. Organic lawn fertilizing will help ensure your lawn is thick and green, with some of that thick greenness created by what we've traditionally thought of as lawn weeds.
- 100% Organic fertilizers are significantly more expensive than conventional lawn fertilization and weed control services.
Busting an Organic Lawn Care Myth
Have you read this organic lawn care idea anywhere? "If you just fertilizer the grass as much as possible and keep at it for a long time, then eventually the grass will grow so thick that it will outcompeted all of the other lawn weeds."
At KG Landscape, we feel that this underlined idea is actually a little misleading and does not set a good expectation for organic lawn care. Although a thick stand of grass can help reduce lawn weeds, there are many weeds that are quite capable of outcompeting our cool season grasses in lawn settings. Unless you hand pull all of your weeds, fully organic lawncare involves excepting the idea of having some amount weeds in your lawn.
Hope for the Future
Organic lawn care is better for the environment than using conventional herbicides to maintain lawns.
We believe that when people start placing more value on reducing chemical use in their yards, than they do on having a weed free lawn, then organic lawn care will eventually be the norm and we'll all be better off for it.
In addition to changing our expectations of what a nice lawn looks like, we are hopefully that widespread adoption of organic lawn care might be sped up in the future, by the development of effective organic selective herbicides that do not currently exist.
Transitional Organic Fertilizer & Weed Control Package
Includes Organic Fertilizers and Uses Less Herbicide
For people who want to reduce their environmental impact, but still want to prevent crabgrass and other weeds from establishing in their lawn, our transitional packages is a great option. Some of our customers alternate each year between our 100% Organic package and this transitional package, to prevent weeds from taking over, while drastically reducing herbicide use and switching to Organic lawn fertilization.
Our transitional organic fertilizer and weed control package reduces the amount herbicide used on your lawn in comparation to conventional lawn treatment packages, by cutting out 1 of the 3 standard weed control treatments typically applied each season.
The transitional organic treatment package also uses 100% certified organic ultra slow release fertilizer for 2 of the 3 fertilization treatments.
1) Spring Fertilizer - Urea based slow release Nitrogen fertilizer with Potash
2) Spring Crabgrass Preventer and Broadleaf Weed Control Treamtent
3) Early Summer Fertilizer - 100% Organic - Organic Turkey litter Meal Application
4) Fall Fertilizer - 100% Organic - Turkey litter Meal Application