Re: [Va-bird] Bird friendly fertilizer and weed control

  • From: NLDR@xxxxxxx
  • To: ldsouza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:07:45 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Liz:
 
Corn gluten is a good organic pre-emergent herbicide for crabgrass, and  
vinegar or clove-based herbicides are good grass/weed killers once plants  
have emerged. _http://www.hort.iastate.edu/gluten/_ ;
(http://www.hort.iastate.edu/gluten/
 
Epsoma products are good organic fertilizers for lawn and garden.
_http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/pdf/products/Esp_ELF.pdf_ ;
(http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/pdf/products/Esp_ELF.pdf
 
Cole Burrell, Free Union, Va
 
An organic gardners with a tolerable number of weeds and lots of happy,  
healthy birds, butterflies, reptiles and amphbians
 
C. Colston Burrell

Principal, Native  Landscape Design and Restoration
Lecturer, Department of Landscape  Architecture, University of Virginia
Author, Photographer and Lecturer
PO Box 76
Free Union, VA 22940
434-975-2859
nldr@xxxxxxx

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Great  Natives for Tough Places
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