6 Ways to Make Your Lawn Safer for Your Kids--and You

Concerned about your kids playing on your lawn after you fertilize the grass and douse the weeds with pesticides? Do you think natural products won’t matter? Before you spray chemicals on your lawn again this year, consider these 6 Ways to Make your Lawn Safer for Kids:

1.   Avoid chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Thousands of people, including children, are exposed to pesticides each year unnecessarily. Pesticides have been linked to childhood cancer and other diseases.

2. Plant MicroClover in your lawn

Clover naturally feeds the grass and requires less fertilizer

3. Use a Natural Weed Control

Vegetable-based weed controls don't expose your children to chemical weed killers.

4.   Use a Speedy Weedy 

These special tools quickly pluck out dandelions and eliminate the need for toxic weed killers

5. Plant grass that is insect resistant

This eliminates the need for chemical insecticides that can harm children. Grass such as turf type tall fescue are insect resistant.

6.   Mow Your Grass Higher

Higher grass can reduce the number of annual weeds in your lawn, which in can reduce or eliminate the need for toxic weed controls 

For more information on organic lawn care, go to www.whygoodnature.com or Ohio State University’s Extension at http://extension.osu.edu/