Eco-Organic Fertilizing & Lawn Repair

Eco-Organic Fertilizing & Lawn Repair

Organic Fertilizing: Our Organic Fertilizing replaces the synthetic chemical lawn applications and provides the necessary organic nutrients with the beneficial biologicals, to ensure the lawn has the strength to compete.

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Lawn Sustainability:  Our Lawn Sustainability program replaces the synthetic chemical lawn applications used by others and will maintain your “beautiful lush lawn”.  This ongoing program is required to maintain your eco-organic lawn.  It focuses on the Organic Matter which enables the decomposition cycle.  The cycle of decomposition and new growth are required for an ecologically balanced and strong green lawn.  This is the evolutionary process that has nourished the earth since the beginning of time.  This basic service includes 3 major components: compost, grass seed and organic Nitrogen.

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Signature Lush Lawn Guarantee:  Our Signature Lush Lawn Guarantee insures the maintenance of your “beautiful lush lawn” once it has been achieved.  This fixed-cost, on-going program delivers on our expertise, experience and advanced training in soil fertility.  Our proprietary treatments & applications are in sync with the natural ecological cycles to keep your lawn staying healthy, lush and beautiful.  We ensure the effectiveness of the natural “eco-controls” inherent in fertility and the ecological balance by conducting specific soil tests and ongoing monitoring to deliver on our promise.   Since seasonal weather patterns can bring changes and stress to the ecological system as a whole, we monitor the need to make any adjustments and timely treatments to your living lawn.  Our mobile onsite monitoring maintains a progress report of your lawns health and vitality.  It also provides guidance and necessary instruction to owners concerning watering, mowing and leaf clean-up.

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Lush Lawn Repair Program:

Our Lush Lawn Repair Program replaces the synthetic chemical lawn application used by others and restores the health and fertility of your soil. This results in the perfect ecological balance that naturally produces an eco-organic, beautiful lush lawn.  This transformative process begins in the soils decomposition processes and cycles.  It integrates the latest knowledge from ecological and horticultural sciences concerning the replenishment and maintenance of soil fertility.  It unlocks this phenomena by boosting the natural biological activity and increasing the organic matter which are key to an ecologically balanced environment that produces and sustains your “beautiful lush lawn”.  The Stick2Mud Lush Lawn Repair Program establishes soils fertility and provides eco-controls to reduce weeds, also pests like grubs, chinch bug, sod webworms, billbug and common lawn diseases, such as brown patch, dollar spot, powdery mildew, red thread etc…                                                                                              Our organic applications provide a permanent solution for softening and aerating soils, which improves air, water and nutrient filtration.  Our proprietary compost based applications restore the natural fertility of the soil, in order to provide everything for a healthy, eco-organic lawn. Our approach is based on the science of soil fertility and its ongoing maintenance.

Frequently asked questions:

What does Eco-Organic mean?

    We do lawn care with an ecological and organic approach.  We work with nature to find a natural collaboration between ecology and effective lawn care practices.  We use the defenses and controls that already exist in a natural ecological system, to produce a safe, healthy, and beautiful lush lawn.  All of our lawn care practices are in balance with the environment.  This balance produces “a beautiful lush lawn” and does it safely.

How do we control weeds naturally?

    Weed control is understanding and working with the ecological systems to benefit the grass over the weeds.   Eco-Organic weed control is achieved through lawn care & maintenance practices that ecologically minimize weed pressure in a lawn.  Weed pressure is the percentage of “weeds and/or weed seeds” in a lawn.  Weed pressure increases when the grass plants begin to weaken and forfeit their land use. Weed pressure is also largely determined by the aggression in reproduction (seeds) of the invading weeds. 

    Our years of experience has taught us that creating and maintaining an ecological environment that is more favorable to grass is what reduces weed pressure naturally and organically.

Our best practices, like biologically aerating the soil, organically fertilizing a lawn, over-seeding a lawn along with compost topdressing will all significantly reduce weed pressure. All the while a frequent lawn mowing schedule (at optimum grass height), and properly watering a lawn will also significantly contribute to reducing weed pressure.  This is why Our eco-organic approach is safe and natural and successful.    

    These ecologically beneficial practices suppress weeds because the balanced environment created favors the grass plant. An ecologically balanced weed pressure is never achieved by chemically eradicating weeds with toxic chemicals and pre-emergent applications.  Chemically treating weeds actually ecologically increases weed pressure in a lawn (especially aggression in reproduction), this is why continual applications are needed. In natures ecological system there is always a healthy level of weed pressure present, for diversity is natures safety net. 

    We have found from our experience that minimizing weed pressure ecologically is the best weed control.  Because it is part of maintaining the ecological balance.  Weed pressure, like soil PH, is always changing with the weather and is dynamic.  When weed pressure is present in a lawn, the living ecology, is balanced and allows grass to thrive as long as it is mowed & organically fertilized.  

Why is seeding also done in the Spring? 

    Ecologically nature has two germination cycles, in both Spring and Fall.  In Eco-Organic lawn care we follow natures cycles and promote seed germination both in the Spring and Fall.  We use seeding in Spring as a form of weed control, a natural pre-emergent against weeds.  And seeding in the Fall to repair, rejuvenates and completely restore a lawn with new grass plants. A grass blade has a life span of 40-50 days. The grass plant has a lifespan of 7-10 years, but as it ages it produces less blades weakening a lawn as a whole.

    How Spring seeding works.  As a grass seed germinates it puts out a little barrier field that prevents other seeds from germinating close by.  This is a natural ecological pre-emergent that is used in Eco-Organic lawn care.  Because of this germinating pre-emergent behavior, Spring seeding is great at balancing the weed pressure in a lawn.  Frequent mowing, especially in the Spring, is the only ecological way to thicken a lawn.

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Why is core aeration not part of your program?

    Soil aeration is created and maintained by the Organic Matter in the soil profile.  Compaction is staged with the use of synthetic fertilizers (non-carbon based) combined with lawn care practices that deplete the Organic Matter and its microbial life. As the soil Organic Matter and biology increases, soil aeration improves.  Organic slow-release fertilizers and compost contribute to the Organic Matter content of the soil and naturally keep the soil alive and aerated. Core-aerations are only needed in very extreme circumstances which would require our Restorative Lawn Detox Program Package.  Core aeration is only needed if a soil compaction test shows a reading of over 250 lbs.

How do you control lawn grubs?  

    Grubs are a natural part of an ecological system.  We control insect infestations with the grass seed type we select.  Our grass seed mix contain endophytes that naturally deter insects from feeding on the grass.  We also recommend using an Eastern Bluebird Nesting house as they are natural ecological insect predators. By controlling the surface insects that lay the eggs in the soil, we reduce the larva damage that eat the grass roots.  We will apply nematodes in some cases as this is a natural ecological solution.

How long before I see any results?

    Our specific slow-release organic fertilizers will begin to show results in 7 days depending on the weather and overall lawn health. Our all natural biological boosting application begins to work immediately upon watering and continually  produces visible result over the next 60 days, leaving you with a beautiful lush lawn.

What is the “monitoring efficacy service”?  

    This service is how we monitor the progress and ensure the overall health of a lawn.  With this service we monitor both your soil and grass health readings so that necessary adjustments and recommendations can be made to ensure your beautiful lush lawn.    

How do slow-release fertilizers work and why are they better?

    Slow release carbon based fertilizers provide a steady flow of nutrients over an extended period of time so that the soil is fed continuously and your lawn experiences a steady growth.  This maintains the decomposition cycle and all its  benefits, all season long. We intentionally use the decomposition cycle because this is the natural ecological system that nature uses.  This eliminates the up and down swings of nutrient supply and its side effects. 

What does “safe” mean? 

     There will be no negative chemical side effects upon any living organism –soil, grass, children, pets or adults. There is nothing to fear as your loved ones are never in contact with any chemical compounds.  A safe lawn is an eco-organic lawn that uses only ecologically safe applications and practices that follow nature’s order.

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Get in touch with us to learn more about our lawn fertilization methods and how we can help transform your lawn.