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Mid Season Tips To Maintain Your Garden

Grooming your lawn for that beautiful look is very much in order after the lush spring. Mid season is the time when there is rush to sell a variety of chemical and weed control products and fertilizers by all manufacturers. However, there can be no better way to do this than to use organic materials most of which can be easily found in many items of general household use even though chemical products are effective and work as advertised. Treating your lawn organically will be much friendlier to the environment and will make your soil less toxic. However, there may be some instances where you may need a combination of organic and non-organic treatment to effectively deal with a specific problem during lawn care. What you need to ensure is that the right applications are done correctly during the season along with proper mowing and watering practices, which will greatly improve the health of your turf. Proper treatment enhances color consistency and turf density and creates a lush healthy lawn. The grass will have a stronger root system, increased resistance to droughts and diseases with little or no use of pesticides. Here is how to go about it.

Weed control
Liquid dish soap - 2 cups (Do not use liquid detergent)
Ammonia - 2 cups
Plain Instant tea - 4 teaspoonfuls

Mix in 20 gallons of water and spray over the lawn around mid day when it is warm and sunny. Follow this by spraying good quality commercial liquid weed control.

Thatch Control
Ammonia - 2 cups
Liquid dish soap -1 cup (Do not use liquid detergent)
A can each of Non-diet Cola and Beer

Mix all ingredients in 20 gallons of water and spray over the lawn for controlling thatch. Thatch is the layer of tightly intermingled living and dead stems, leaves and roots found between the soil and actively growing grass. It is a normal component of turf grass. If the thatch layer is heavy is may require another treatment in a week's time. The yeast, enzymes and other nutrients present in beer, tea, molasses, corn syrup, and soda contribute to enhanced activity of beneficial microbes that decompose thatch and prevent excess thatch accumulation. Ammonia gives off nitrogen that supports thatch breakdown and provides nitrates that are plant nutrients. Soap is for breaking the surface tension of the water droplets and allows better spreading of the solution over target plants.

Lawn Fertilizer
Take a bag of dry lawn fertilizer and mix three to four pounds of Epsom salts to the bag and then use it at half the prescribed rate mentioned on the bag. Used this way, a 50 pound bag of fertilizer should suffice for covering approx. 2500 square feet of lawn area.

Organic Fertilizer
Plain liquid dish soap - 1 cup (Do not use detergent)
Liquid lawn fertilizer - 1 cup
Molasses/corn syrup - 1 cup
Ammonia - 1 cup
A can of beer

Mix everything in 20 gallons of water and spray evenly all over the lawn in the early mornings or late evenings. This needs to be repeated every fortnight all over the growing season.
All the quantities mentioned above are meant to cover 2500 square feet of lawn area and need to be adjusted according to the actual measurement of your lawn.

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