Weeds

Do you have more crabgrass than lawn? What you need to remember this is symptomatic of the problem. Focus your energy on creating healthy fertile soil and growing healthy turf.

You don’t want to get caught up into a killing frenzy! What you really want to learn to create a growing frenzy!You want to be about building micro organism populations not destroying them.

Remember, all those chemicals that you are using are going to kill other things as well. The first to die are friendly Bacteria and Fungi. The result is that the life in the soil is destroyed by synthetic chemicals and becomes unable to support healthy grass plants. It also degrades the pH levels and raises sodium to toxic levels. Before you know it, you have dirt instead of soil and weeds instead of healthy turf. Isn't time to start working in harmony with nature instead of trying to cheat it?

Okay, I can hear some of you who are quite animate in your expressions of anger. Remember, you are not powerless! You can carry all that aggression right out to your front lawn and take it out on the culprit! The biggest mistake is to do nothing to correct the soil imbalances and continuing to let fertility degrade. There was a lady who called me one day, having some 'issues' with her lawn and wanted to know if I could help her. Some days had gone by since I had spoke to this lady. When she called me back, she was obviously on the verge of tears. After I got her calmed down she told me that she had been “saving” some crabgrass for me to see when I got out there, but that it had taken over her lawn! I asked her why she didn’t just pull it out when she saw it! She said that she wanted me to see it.
Some days you can only shake your head. Today she knows to just bend over and pull the weed instead of watching it multiply! If for some reason you can’t physically bend over, there are alternative ways to get at a pesky plant. Like geting your wife or kid to do it. Yea that is funny, huh? I get a lot of questions about herbicides. Both organic and chemical.

So many people are looking for the miracle cure.

They've heard so much on the radio and have seen the slick television ads and it's as if they wish hard enough and believe it will happen. That's not FAITH! That's called DENIAL!

Somewhere along the way people get suckered into the marketing “fluff” about a maintenance free lawn. “Just put this magic chemical on your grass and it will make it wonderful AND it’s going to give you problem free lawn” Do you really believe it? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of herbicides. So just pull the weed!

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