Q: How bad are chemicals for your lawn? Can I use both organic and chemical lawn treatments? Are all these good-looking lawns on drugs? When you stop treatment will they die?

A: Remember – a vigorously growing lawn grass is your best weed control. If you have the right grass for the site, with soft soil underneath, you can simply fertilize and water appropriately and get good weed control.

You’ll only need to do a bit of spot spraying occasionally.