The concept of organic lawn care has become very popular in recent days. That is the only conclusion you come to, upon getting to learn of the considerable number of people who have been expressing interest in the said organic lawn care. This is interest they express by way of conducting online searches on the same approach to lawn maintenance. It is also interest they express by way of making enquiries to lawn service providers, with respect to how they can get the said organic lawn maintenance services.

Briefly, organic lawn maintenance is what you get when you endeavor to establish and care for a lawn with minimal chemical use. Ordinarily, lots of chemicals are used in lawn maintenance. The grass seeds would ordinarily be treated with various chemicals, before they are planted, to ensure that they don't get messed up by pests before they germinate. Chemical fertilizers would be used, to ensure that the grasses get all the nutrients they need in order to thrive. Chemical pesticides may be used for pest control purposes, with chemical herbicides being used for weed control purposes. But in organic lawn care, through various alternative practices, a check is put on this chemical usage.
It later emerges that there is an upside and a downside to this organic approach to lawn maintenance.

Starting with the upside, one would appreciate the fact that organic lawn maintenance is more environment-friendly. Notice that when chemicals (chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides) are used in lawn maintenance, they are inevitably eventually washed down into the water bodies when it rains, where they go on to bring cause a lot of harm. Closer home, the use of these chemical inputs tends to make the soil become ‘toxic' over time. Thus, to the extent that organic lawn care gives us an alternative to the use of these chemicals, it has a ‘saving effect' on both the soil and the environment at large.

Still on the upside, if properly undertaken, organic lawn maintenance can prove to be a much more cost-effective approach to the maintenance of lawns than the chemical-dependant approach to lawn maintenance. We are looking at a situation where, rather than making use of expensive lawn fertilizers, for instance, one simply subjects the domestic (or organizational) waste to a composting process, after which such waste is deployed on the lawn as manure. This would bring about savings on the amount of money that would have otherwise been used in buying chemical fertilizers. With respect to pest control and weed control, cultural approaches are used, meaning that the money that would have been used in buying pesticides and herbicides respectively is saved upon.

But there is also a downside to this organic approach to lawn maintenance.

The main disadvantages is in the fact if one is not careful, this is a lawn maintenance approach which can lead to mediocrity, in terms of lawn care results. You have to keep it in mind that the various chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides are usually ruthlessly efficient at whatever they are meant to do. But in organic lawn care, we see cases where the organic manures used in organic lawn care may not supply the exact nutrients needed by the grasses (keeping in mind that nutrients may have leached during the composting process). Similarly, the cultural pest control and weed control practices may not be entirely effective. The end result would be mediocrity, in terms of lawn care results.