GOING Organic

At the landscaping company where I work, our clients sometimes ask about changing to an organic lawn-care program. I can spot two assumptions by the way they phrase the question: They think it’s simply a matter of swapping out traditional (synthetically derived) products for natural ones to yield a similar result, and that letting the lawn “go organic” means less work.

Making the switch is more complex than that. For the most part, you won’t find exact one-for-one product swaps. And it’s not so much work as it is work. Perhaps the trickiest part is managing