With the tightening of environmental restrictions becoming a reality over more and more of the United States that tell you what you can and can't put on and into your lawn, it is no wonder that organic lawn care is becoming a natural alternative. For those that aren't familiar with the concept, organic lawn care is the use of 100% natural and organic chemicals and solutions on your lawn to help your grass and flowers grow naturally. Just like organic farming doesn't use any harmful, man-made pesticides, organic lawn care is dedicated to using only natural ingredients to keep your lawn green!



Maybe the best argument of all to switch to organic lawn care is the fact that everything you put on your lawn gets absorbed into the ground below. Do you really want to be spreading possibly dangerous chemicals right below your water pipes so that these chemicals get absorbed into the water table? Of course not, and it is this realization, more than anything else, that makes people switch over to natural grass-growing and fertilization.

The first step that most people take when they decide to go green is to change the fertilizer they use on their lawn and on their flower beds. A trip to the lawn care store can be quite the experience if you've never been before. There are literally hundreds of different types of fertilizer made for home and lawn use, some of them are natural but many of them are not. The most obvious fertilizer to use for your lawn would be manure. When most people think of this, the instant reaction is NO WAY! They imagine fresh out of the cow manure that would make you have to hold your nose every time you leave your house, and we don't even want to think of the reaction from the neighbors! But most manure that can be commercially bought has no scent whatsoever. That's right, it's been treated so that there is very little to no smell at all. And your flowers will just love having natural fertilizer to help them grow instead of a sprayed on chemical that doesn't even work as well.

Another simple adjustment you can make to help your lawn be green and healthy is the use of natural cedar chips in your flower beds to help prevent weed growth. Some people choose to use other substances that have a layer of chemical weed killer covering it and while it may do wonders for your flower beds, that chemical has a tendency to run off every time it rains and down into the water table it goes. Natural cedar will not only smell and look great, it will do a number on the weeds, too!