Lincoln Landscaping’s 1st “organic school” and with no irrigation system to boot. Jeez, talk about making it tuff? That’s Ok, we love challenges…. The director has been amazed so far with the lush green color of the grass carpeting his playing and athletic fields. We are really hyped up and excited because we are trying something new.
Lincoln landscaping originally started this athletic field turf management program 1 ½ years ago on the Roxbury High School N.J. Boys and Girls Athletic Fields. The fields came out of a resting period in the spring which followed a severe grub infestation the previous fall. With agressive aeration program combined with applications of organic fertilizers the fields successfully recovered.
Lincoln landscaping was contacted by the Elmwood Park Community to initiate and maintain an “organic” turf management program and upgrade the High School Varsity Soccer, Baseball and Softball fields. At Lincoln Landscaping of Franklin Lakes, we like to refer to athletic fields as PLAYING FIELDS, to ever remind us that these are children and young adults playing games and interacting via sport activities. As such , it is proven that children absorb pesticides at then time the rate of an adult.
Within the scope of this Organic Lawn and Turf Management at a residential home we are core aerating, overseeding and then following that up with an application of
Lincoln Landscaping has been maintaining this park organically for three full seasons. Dealing with a variety of issues from compaction to low organic matter in the soil and a poor pH, this field challenged us as we tried to improvise a plan of action.organic turf management -dehart-park-maplewood-new-jersey.
Compost Tea, in fact, is all the rave for gardeners who repeatedly attest to higher quality vegetables, flowers, and foliage. Compost tea is an aerobic water solution that has extracted the microbe population from compost along with the nutrients. In simple terms, it is a concentrated liquid created by a process to increase the numbers of beneficial organisms as an organic approach to plant/soil care. Very simply, it is a liquid, nutritionally rich, well-balanced, organic supplement made by steeping aged compost in water.
Magic Weed Killer - no such luck. Sure chemicals work. They work really well. But their effect is not limited to the weed itself, regardless of marketing claims. There’s a downside. An herbicide will make a broadleaf “weed” disappear from your lawn, but at the expense of the soil and biology beneath (and maybe your evergreen trees, as we saw with imprelis).