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Pesticide-free, or ?EUR??,,????'??organic?EUR??,,????'?? lawn care, may be booming in the tri-state area around New York City but it?EUR??,,????'???s yet to catch on across the Southeast. Also popular in Western states, the new methods use fertilizers made from animal and plant products. Wanda Frazier with TruGreen, an Okatie, S.C., lawn-care company, said that while the company offers an organic fertilization and insect and disease control program, no customers are using it. “We definitely feel it’s something that is growing in popularity, but people here simply aren’t requesting it yet,” she said. By using organic products, including fertilizers made of kelp, fish parts, animal waste and other naturally occurring materials, proponents of organic lawn care say they’re causing less harm to the environment and keeping lawns safe for humans and pets. Some lawn-care companies and state horticulturists say local customers either aren’t aware of organic treatments, don’t want to pay higher prices for those services or aren’t sold on their effectiveness. On average, organic methods cost 25 percent to 30 percent more than traditional methods, said Bert McCarty, a turf-grass scientist with Clemson University. Source: The Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.)
Pesticide-free, or ?EUR??,,????'??organic?EUR??,,????'?? lawn care, may be booming in the tri-state area around New York City but it?EUR??,,????'???s yet to catch on across the Southeast. Also popular in Western states, the new methods use fertilizers made from animal and plant products.
Wanda Frazier with TruGreen, an Okatie, S.C., lawn-care company, said that while the company offers an organic fertilization and insect and disease control program, no customers are using it.
“We definitely feel it’s something that is growing in popularity, but people here simply aren’t requesting it yet,” she said.
By using organic products, including fertilizers made of kelp, fish parts, animal waste and other naturally occurring materials, proponents of organic lawn care say they’re causing less harm to the environment and keeping lawns safe for humans and pets.
Some lawn-care companies and state horticulturists say local customers either aren’t aware of organic treatments, don’t want to pay higher prices for those services or aren’t sold on their effectiveness.
On average, organic methods cost 25 percent to 30 percent more than traditional methods, said Bert McCarty, a turf-grass scientist with Clemson University.
Source: The Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.)
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