"Kim E." wrote in message
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Hi! I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to point me towards
links that can help me learn how to care for our lawn organically
without hazardous chemicals. I did a google search, but found mostly
vendor sites which I don't trust that much.

I would be also interested to know what organic lawncare regimes people
here have found to work for them. We are planning to aerate our lawn
this weekend, and my husband is impatient and wants to fertilize in the
chem-lawn kind of way, but he says he is willing to try organic methods
if I can come up with some quickly!

Thanks!

-kim

Here are my suggestions:

Spread a thin layer of compost. This can pretty much be done any time of the
year, and as little as once a year.

Use something like corn gluten meal as a preemergant in early spring before
seeds start to germinate (I've never tried this, maybe others can offer
advice?) Hand pull what weeds do come up.

Mow high, it should keep weed seeds in shade, so they don't come up. Oh, and
use a mulching mower, so you are not taking nutrients from the lawn. (This
means you will need to mow often)