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Summer Lawn Care: How to Keep Your Grass Green

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It's getting hot out there. And while you might love basking in the summer sun, it can be rough on your grass. So just as you layer on sunscreen before heading out on a sunny day, you must consider summer lawn care so that your grass can stay green all summer long. When the sun grows fiery and passionate in June, July, and August, it beams down sunlight that is both beneficial and harmful to plants. As the days grow longer and hotter, watch out for your grass. We've got just the tips you need to keep your lawn bright, beautiful, and nourished. To begin, you should fertilize your grass. Using a plant food made especially for grass (which means it should be high in nitrogen, which promotes growth and greenness) and a spreader for proper distribution, fertilize your lawn. For best results, wait until the grass is dry and mowed. You want the fertilizer to sink into the ground (if it sticks to the wet blades, it might burn them). When you pour the fertilizer into the spreader, do i

How to Choose a Soil Amendment

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Every garden needs to have a good base of soil, and usually, gardening soil comes in black crumbly material. When it comes to choosing your soil, you also need to understand how to select a soil amendment. There are various amendments available, and it will depend on the type of soil that you place in your garden. You will first need to begin by determining the speed of your soil drainage , which will allow you to know the actual quality of the soil that is within your garden. There are usually three different types sandy, clay, or also loam. When you are working with amendments, you will want to ensure that the ground is moist or the process will not work correctly. If you attempt to do things while the soil is dry, the amendments will not be adequately absorbed and defeat the whole purpose. This doesn't mean that the ground needs to be overly wet; it just can not be dry. When your soil is moist, it will make things easier to work with as you'll be doing a little digging, and

Sustainable Agriculture - Importance & Definition

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Sustainable agriculture are often a broad and sometimes vague term without a universally agreed-upon definition. i like better to define sustainability within the broadest sense possible, therein sustainability is that the power to carry out practices indefinitely, without having to eventually halt them thanks to negative impacts on environment, community, or the processes themselves. Sustainable agriculture thus involves quite just environmentally sound farming practices, but also necessarily encompasses both economic considerations (questions of resource utilization) and human considerations also. Why is sustainability important in agriculture? Unfortunately, this agricultural production systems in place not only within the U.S. but in many parts of the earth are highly unsustainable. variety of the problems with agriculture include the destruction of untamed ecosystems, just like the clearing of rainforest and other biomes to make room for farming, nutrient pollution and chemical po

The Best Lawn Fertilizer

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It is hard to determine one best lawn fertilizer because there are so many different kinds of grass. You also have to look at the soil of the area to determine what the needs will be in fertilizer. The amount of sun and shade that your lawn gets also has a direct influence on the way the grass grows and how green it gets. Walk on the lawn and see whether or not the grass remains down in your footstep. It could be a sign that you need to water the lawn or that the grass does not have the right nourishment for growing well. When you use a fertilizer on your lawn, it will stimulate the growth of the grass. This will also mean you have to mow the lawn more often. Experts recommend that you do apply fertilizer at least 4 times a year. There are different fertilizers you should use at the different times of the year. In spring, choose a fertilizer just for that time of the year. As the grass begins to grow stronger in late spring, you should use a turf builder and during the summer, you need

A Quick Guide to Lawn Fertilizers

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If you want to let your lawn look healthy and green, it is essential that you fertilize your lawn. Lawn Fertilizer is one of the most important factors that affect the growth of your lawn. Proper fertilizing provides color and growth to your lawn grass and also helps it to grow thick. Let us take a look at the main constituents of fertilizers. Standard fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Fertilizing involve the administration of all these constituents but in different amounts. Most lawns would need nitrogen in the maximum amount as it helps in fast growth, gives the grasses darker color and also thickens the grasses. However, you cannot neglect the administration of phosphate and potash. A deficient in phosphate and potash coupled with high dose of nitrogen will result in too much top growth. This can cause insufficient root growth and reduce nutrient storage capacity. A balanced fertilizing program would include all the three constituents in proper amount and micro-nut

Organic Farming - Environment Friendly Farming

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Organic farming is one of the forms of agriculture. It makes use of green manure and crop rotation techniques. It is beneficial in maintaining soil productivity and pest control on farms. Use of manufactured  bio fertilizers and pesticide are excluded in organic farming. Plant growth regulators like hormones, food additives, genetically modified organisms, etc. are also excluded in this type of farming. It is more eco-friendly as compared to that of conventional farming. International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) authority is responsible for regulating organic farming activities worldwide. We all are aware of the fact that harmful chemicals and artificial fertilizer can prove to be harmful to us if even consumed indirectly through fruits and vegetables. Non-Organic farming makes use of several artificial fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, and growth regulators. Products produced by conventional agriculture can be dangerous not only for us but is also respons

The Risks of Using Chemical and Organic Fertilizers

Using fertilizers has always been a hot topic with gardeners, farmers, and scientists. With the recent news about salmonella poisoning occurring at a higher rate these days, we must look into what types of chemicals and natural products we are mixing on our crops, gardens, and lawns. In recent news, the U.S food and drug administration (FDA) is currently searching for the cause of the current outbreak in tomatoes. Over 165 people have become ill all over the U.S. There are over 1.4 million cases of related food poisoning. In 2006 there were about 600 deaths related to salmonella. Is the way we grow the food affecting our crops? We will take a look at fertilization, especially organic fertilizers , and show the effected risk and concerns. Is over-fertilization possible? When it comes to over-fertilization, we can look at and discuss artificial fertilizers. Because synthetic fertilizers are used in such massive quantities and the destructive chemicals used in them, artificial fertilizers