October! Already?

Thanks to a handful of BioGardener lovers who, apparently, have it more together than I do, with their big fancy calendars and their digital reminder chimes and their neatly organized offices and cleaned out trucks and met deadlines and perfect appointment attendance and well-groomed faces, I am reminded that it’s time for organic fertilizing! Please see our website for more information on why this is important—click on:
“April, June, and October is Time for Organic Fertilizing”.

Before you knock over the chair in a mad scramble for a checkbook, keep in mind that there will be lots of other ways to spend money during the next several months, when our seasonal delirium causes us to start looking at each other like well-tanned turkey legs in the lean, hard, cold, hungry winter months that we landscapers love and hate at the same time. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to prevent us from resorting to cannibalism: native bed pruning and cleanup; leaf control; soil prep for the spring growing season; building a new veggie garden or revitalizing an old one; continued efforts to eliminate turf and replace with bed space; cash donations; and Compost Topdressing!

Compost Topdressing is the best thing you can do for your lawn. We add 1/4 to 1/2″ of Dillo Dirt or manure-based compost over your entire lawn to enrich the soil with good microbes, help break down existing clay, add moisture retention, and increase nutrient content in the soil. Healthy happy soil equals healthy happy lawns. The cost is much higher than fertilizing (usually about $110-$180 for compost/delivery and another $100 or so to spread it for average sized lawns) so if you’re on a budget, make room in there for this. Skip a few meals, forget December’s car payment, lose a credit card bill, or cavort in the euphoria caused by just flat out refusing to pay your mortgage: it’s the All-American way to pay for those things you really need, like Compost Topdressing!

Please let me know if there is anything we can do for you and your native, organic landscape. And THANK YOU for another amazing spring and summer, by far the best we’ve had yet. Enjoy the soon changing weather, and have a great new season….

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