Organic Lawn Care
Don’t Forget Your Roots!
To make it through the rigors of summer and lead a happy, healthy life your lawn needs roots that are deep and strong. When other lawns are gasping for a cool drink, your lawn will be pulling moisture from 6 inches beneath the surface because you watered long and infrequently. Many towns now restrict watering…
Read MoreTime for Fall Cleanup
Here is a note we provided to all of our 2015 lawn care customers… Dear Organic Soil Solutions customer: Your final 2015 Organic Soil Solutions treatment was applied today. Thanks for having us care for your lawn organically this year. We hope you’ll have us back in 2016, our 13th year owning the business. Humates and kelp improve…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Microbes in Soil Biology
This month, we applied microbial foods and biology to the soil that supports the lawns of our customers. The soil is a living breathing place with air, water and billions of micro-organisms breaking things down and building things up. It is a little quiet down there now, but it will soon be crackling with activity…
Read MoreTurning Bad Soil into a Green Organic Lawn
We Identified Bad Soil…. A house was built with a considerable area that was dedicated to lawn. It had been seeded twice in the spring but not much had germinated. Even crabgrass was afraid to tred here. That is about as lifeless as you can get. The soil was highly compacted and it didn’t drain. The…
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