Organic Lawn Fertiliser Recipe

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.

Cost wise, these organic lawn fertilisers should be much cheaper than both ready-to-use organic fertilisers, as well as traditional lawn fertiliser.

Like all good home made recipes, it's original creator is now impossible to track down, but whoever it was did put some effort into creating an organic fertiliser which is well balanced.

The ingredients may require some hunting around for, but once again - try your local nursery first, and some agricultural type shops and pet or stock feed shops should also stock these items. Google is also your friend to track down these ingredients.

~ As Australians begin demanding more and more organic product for their homes and gardens, all these items, plus many more highly beneficial organic products will begin to become more readily available to all of us… but we need to create the demand as consumers first, so let's get started.

Organic Lawn Care Recipe

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Mixing and Applying Organic Lawn Fertiliser

Mix all ingredients together in a container which can be sealed, and one which is preferably air-tight. These ingredients can get a little dusty while being mixed - if this happens then it may be worthwhile to wear a face masking during mixing.

If more organic lawn fertiliser is mixed than is needed in a single application, then it will be important to keep the fertiliser as dry as possible in storage. An air-tight container in the shed is often the best idea for this.

Apply the dry fertiliser at approximate rates of 20 litres per 100 square metres of lawn.

Once applied, the lawn is watered as normal, which should always be a healthy deep watering.

Application frequency will depend on the general health of your own lawn and soil.Once in Spring and once in Autumn for very healthy lawn and soils, or once at the beginning of each new season for less healthy lawns.

Notes on Alkaline Soils

If you live in an area where soils have higher Alkaline soils, eg Perth - then Lime should be cut down to 1/2 Part in the mixture. Be sure not to remove the Lime altogether though, it still contains Calcium and Magnesium, as well as being an offset for the slightly acidic seed meals.

If this organic lawn fertiliser is to be used every couple of months throughout the year on poor lawn soils, then Lime can be reduced further to around 1/4 of one Part.

If you don't know the alkalinity or acidity of your soil, then it's highly recommended to do a either a pH test, or even better - a soil analysis.

Information on soil analysis - plus - discuounted service for readers of The Lawn Guide can be found on The Lawn Guide ~ here.