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Question - I would be quite happy to read your response to the other questioner on organic lawn car, but you either you forgot to attach it or to send me the link.  Sorry to be such a pest.

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I live in Oakville, Ontario (between Toronto and Niagra)and have just received a note from a garden company recommending Leatherjacket/Crane Fly insect treatment.  Is this really a serious threat or should I ignore the recommendation.

I am a beginner in this area and would like to treat the lawn and flowers organically.

Thanks for your time.

Dinshaw

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Hi Dinshaw;
I never heard of it.
That is not to say it is not any good, or that it is not organic, but are you having a problem with Crane Flies?
I don't even know what a Crane Fly is. LOL
If it is one of those chemical lawn treatment companies, I would throw it away.
You can have a gorgeous lawn by using an organic program, and staying away from those poison chemicals.
Chemicals make problems, they don't cure them.
Organics eliminates them before they get started.
Make rich soil, and that is what the organic program does.
Even when your lawn isa covered knee deep in snow, those little beneficial insects, microbes and nemetodes are working to improve and enrich your soil.
For every harmful insect that is attracted to your lawn, there are hundreds of beneficial ones that feed on the harmful ones.
Those chemicals kill all the beneficial ones, and then wears out of the soil. The harmful ones come right back, but there are no beneficial ones to eat them. It takes a lot longwer for the beneficial ones to make a comeback, then the fertilizers and weed killers that do nothing to the harmful insects, keep the beneficial ones killed off.
If you want to learn more about an oprganic, easy to follow routine for having a great looking lawn, just write me.
Charlotte

I'd love to learn how to to have a great looking llawn organically.

Thanks.
Dinshaw

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Hi again Denshaw;
This is a long post to another questioner, but in the two answers to him, I covered just about everything I know about organics.
He is new to an organic program too, so I tried to cover all the bases.
If you could copy these out, read and re=read, and then if there are other questions you have, write them to me, and I will address them, as you may have different issues in the area where you live.
The same organics work all over the worlld, but some climates have problems that need to be adressed particularly to that region, and grass types.
Charlotte

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Duh; Sorry Denshaw.
I plead old age. LOL
Here it is. You can go to my previous answers in the archives, and read more, but I copied this here, because I have a hard time finding things in the archives.
They need to make this site more user friendly.
Charlotte

Mike Schuldt

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Hi Mike;
PERFECT time to start an organic program that will set you off in really good shape, for a MUCH better gardening experience, with less problems, less money laid out for chemical JUNK, and less work.
I have been on an organic program for going on my 9th or 10th year.
Can't remember exactly when I started it.
Feeding in the fall is just part of getting the lawn and garden set up to weather the winter.
If you want to know more about organics, write me, and I will send you somne good information for success.
Need to know some things when you write.
1. What is your soil like? Clay and pretty to very hard, very sandy, or good loose, well draining soil?
2 what facilities do you have for watering? Sprinkler system, soaker hoses, sprinklers on hoses?????
If you haven't oput in a sprinkler system yet, save yourself some time and money and DON'T even consider one!!!
They waste more water than gets to your grass and plants, and cost a whole lot, that to me, is just money down the drain.
If you are going to continue to use chemicals, you need to fertilize, and be ready for fungus etc, and weeds, and pests in the spring.
Organically, you will need very little for now, and will have fewer worries with thoise other things in the spring, and from now on.
Organics is more about what you DON'T do that what you do, and the results are so much more.
You will have thicker, greener, healthier, and sweeter smelling grasses, flowers, and everything else you plant.
On organics you spend a few hours per week working on your lawn, and the rest of the time, sitting, watching and enjoying it.
On chemicals, you spend a fortune, about all your spare time after work, battling weeds, pests and diseases.
I know because I did that for almost 50 years, and since I started the organic program, I just don't have those worries anymore.
I also do not have to worry about what my grandchildren and pets get into in my yard.
No poisons around to potentially harm, or kill them.
I also have less problems with Asthma and allergies, since I am not breathing in all those toxic chemicals.
I have beautiful bug free shrubs and flowers, weed and insect free lawn, and a thick,lush, carpet of grass to walk on.
It even smells nicer when it is fresh mown.
I wouldn't go back to chemicals for anything.
Charlotte
 
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