Natural lawn fertilizers?

Question

What is the best formula for a greener lawn?

Answer 1

This is an easy one! The very best natural booster is compost tea. The practise of using compost tea to render salted grasses \ soil reactive again is considered by most lawn care cooperatives as the only viable solution other than replacing the soil. So... it must work pretty good.
I belong to a garden club, one of the members has a huge plastic tank filled with the stuff in his shed, it's even outfitted with a hose. It works great- he uses no chemicals in his gardens at all. As far as the "formula" there are several... I would suggest GOOGLE for a quick ref' but there are some books out that have better suggestions... look for one by a guy called Paul Tukey. Tukey is recognised for his non chemical gardening especially regarding Lawns.

Good luck.

Answer 2

There are three very natural fertilizers.

The first is to leave grass clippings on the lawn. The clippings will rapidly decompose adding nitrogen to the lawn. Leaving clippings on the lawn will reduce your need for fertilizer by 25%.

The second is to have about 20% to 25% dutch white clover in the lawn. White clover fixes nitrogen from the air and adds it to the soil. It also needs less water than grass and stays green in drought. You can buy clover seed at garden centres, over seed your lawn in the spring or fall with clover seed.

Third is to top dress your lawn twice a year (early spring and late fall) with 0.5" to 1" of compost. Spread it on and rake it in. It will add nutrients to the soil.

Answer 3

Let's see Lawn fertilizers are made up of basically 3 things. Nitrogen , Potassium, and Pot ash. I believe all of these are in nature naturally, so I guess they are "Natural" fertilizers.

If you want to use something more natual like cow manure, make sure it's well aged. If it's too ripe for your lawn and your nose, it'll burn your lawn and force your neighbors to put their homes up for sale.

If you leave your lawn mower clippings on your lawn, plan on Dethatching your lawn every year. Anyone who says mulching your grass clippings is the way to go is full of Cow Manure.
What happens when you mulch your clipping, is that you are putting a thin layer of mulched grass at the base of the grass every time you cut your lawn. Eventually this layer gets to thick to let water,air and nutrients to get to the grass roots and soon your lawn starts to look like crap.

If you want to put peat on your lawn, don't put it on any thicker than 1/4" at a time, anymore than that may sufficate the grass.

For your information never use lime on a lawn, it's very hard to get it out of a fertilizer spreader at the proper rate. If you put it on too heavey, you'll burn your lawn.
Gypsum is NOT a fertilize. Gypsum is ground up Limestone (a Base) and than put into pellet form. It's used to nuetrilize salts (road salt) and acids (pine needles) and helps to break up clay so you can grow grass.

You'd be supprised how just watering your lawn helps.

Answer 4

Natural fertilizers would refer to manure (cow, horse, chicken, etc.) or possibly materials like milorganite, which is a commercial product from the Milwaukee sewage system which is appropriately prepared for use a fertilizer/soil amendment. I am sure there are other similar materials on the market.
Any material sold as a fertilizer is required to list the amount of fertilizer contained in the product. These are listed as percentage by weight of the product.
Manures are typically low (3% nitrogen) in fertilizer content, but high in organic matter content. This means you will have to spread more of it to get the required amount of fertilizer, but you get an added benefit of the organic matter.
Your local county agricultural extension agent, or a good garden center could help you with what is available and also what is appropriate for the soil type in your area.

Answer 5

Get like six goats. Its great. You make 6 life-long friends, and have the best lawn on the block

Answer 6

If you don't want to use chemical-based fertilizers or mined minerals, you can use fish emulsion or compost tea. Both can be sprayed on a a liquid. I will warn you though, the fish emulsion is stinky and can attract animals such a bears if they are in your area.

Answer 7

If you want a natural fertilizer fish emulsion is great stuff for any plants and you really can't burn plants with it.

Answer 8

what do you mean natural?
do you mean animal manure based fertilizers? if so there is no formula, what comes out is what you get.

Answer 9

I never leave the clippings on the lawn if they are heavy and you don;t have a bagger,,,,,,rake em up......If moisture and sun gets to the roots,It will be green..

Answer 10

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