These are two variations of a widely known and highly respected organic lawn fertilizer recipe. It has been used on lawns and gardens around the world with great success, so we're are confident to share it here with Saint Augustine lawn owners. This organic lawn fertilizer 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 lawn fertilizers.

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

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

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

Organic Lawn Care Fertilizer Recipe

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Mixing and Applying Organic Lawn Fertilizer

Mix all ingredients together in a container that 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 mask during mixing.

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

Apply the dry fertilizer at approximate rates of 5 gallons per 1,000 square feet 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 the Fall 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 - 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 fertilizer 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 a good idea to do a either a pH test, or even better - a soil analysis.