Borax Ant Killer Recipe

This method of ant control creates a mixture of a few ingredients which are combined to form a liquid ant killer bait, with the primary ingredient used to kill the ants being Borax.

In practice, the ants are drawn to eat the baited sugary syrup, and once ingested - the Borax acts to kill the ants immediately.

Cottonseed meal for organic fertiliser

Homemade Organic Lawn Fertiliser

These are two variations of a widely known and highly respected organic lawn fertiliser recipe. It has been used on lawns and gardens around the world with great success, so we're are pleased and confident to share it here with Aussie homeowners.

This organic lawn fertiliser is something which the homeowner mixes up themselves from the raw bulk ingredients, and applies to the lawn or garden as they normally would with traditional fertilisers.

Kill clover without pesticides

Clover Is A Sign Of A Lawn In Trouble

When Clover begins taking over lawns it tells us something very important about our lawn health, and most importantly about the health of our soils. Also when we begin seeing Clover in lawns, we often see that our lawns themselves may also be turning brown or yellow in colour, as well as possibly having slowed growth and looking generally in poor overall health.

The presence of Clover in lawns is a sign of low Nitrogen levels in the soil.

Clover requires soil with LOW Nitrogen levels because this plant can pull it's Nitrogen requirement from the air.

The Problems Caused By Shaded Lawns

As we continue to look at preventative means to maintain a healthy lawn without the need of intervention from the uses of pesticides, we're going to look at the problem of shade and lawns.

While we've talked about shade and the importance of sunlight to lawn health elsewhere, we believe it is necessary to look at this issue from an organic lawn care perspective as well.

Good Lawn Care Is Key To Preventing Weeds

As people who take the ideals of organic lawn care seriously, we all know that the real trick in having a beautiful, hassle free and organic lawn lay in preventing any problems from occurring in the first place.

Organic lawn care or not, this should be the ideal for every lawn owner, and it's these same principle that are repeated throughout all the pages of this website..

Natural control of lawn weeds

Controlling Lawn Weeds Without Pesticides

Weeds don't need to become a problem in the home lawn or garden, and it's usually only when weeds are left unchecked that they get out of control and need major treatments as a cure.

However, in over ten years I have sprayed for weeds only once nearly a decade ago (for oxalis), and my lawn remains weed free to this day. So lets find out how to stop weeds from over taking our lawns and how to naturally treat them whenever they do become a problem.

Hand Pulling Weeds

While hand pulling weeds may seem like a chore, it only ever becomes such when weeds are left to get out of control and spread in greater numbers, and it's often when weeds get to this point that we finally look for a solution, which in most cases is often chemical.

But it doesn't need to be this way.

Our article on 10 Minute Lawn Care outlines a principle of getting out in the yard and enjoying our lawns and gardens on a more regular basis. It's not only great for relaxing and spending a little extra time with loved ones and our kids, but it's a great weed control method too.

Low toxic and natural methods to control ants

Control Ants In The Lawn, Garden and Paving

Ants can quickly swell to large colonies which can take over a lawn and garden. Thankfully there are a lot of ways to control ants naturally, without us doing any harm to the environment. So put away those bug sprays and ant dusts and do these things instead.

Mow lawns higher and keep lawns healthy, ants will struggle to survive in a lawn which has a long leaf and a thick healthy sward.

Pruning vegetation on bushes where ants are colonising nearby will remove the shelter for the nest, forcing the ants to move on somewhere else.

Top Organic Lawn Care Tips

The goals of Organic Lawn Care are to naturally reduce the infestation of weeds, pests and diseases, to reduce fertiliser usage, to use less water on our lawns, to use less chemicals on our lawns - or to eliminate chemicals altogether, to reduce maintenance to our lawns from practices such as lawn mowing, to use natural lawn care products, and to naturally cure any problems whenever they occur.

So here we present the basics of Organic Lawn Care.

These organic lawn care basics are not cures to lawn problems, rather they are cultural management practices - which are the things we do everyday to keep our lawns in excellent health, and to provide them with the greatest chance of both preventing, and naturally fighting off lawn problems with the least amount of intervention by us.

Organic lawn grub control

How to Organically Control Lawn Grubs.

Lawn grubs can become a real problem for some lawn owners, but often the chemical cures can be worse than the problem. So lets take a look at how to deal with lawn grubs from an organic and environmentally friendly perspective.

This article discusses larval lawn grubs from lawn beetles, as well as caterpillars such as Armyworm and Sod Webworm which are often also referred to as lawn grubs.

Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Lawns

Despite new modern attacks against lawns, every lawn is highly environmentally responsible, cleaning masses of pollution from the air every day. In fact, a lawn would need to be constantly and grossly mismanaged and over-managed to ever get to the point of ever doing more harm than good. But we should all make the very best improvements possible to our lawn care to reduce their effects to the lowest levels possible.