Organic Soil Solutions is an all organic lawn care company
based in Woburn, MA and serving the Boston area to Route 495.

We use a completely organic and proactive approach to plant and soil health care. The Organic Soil Solutions program renews, revitalizes, corrects and conditions your soil and healthy living soil means healthy thriving trees, shrubs and lawns. To preserve your investment in your landscape, your soil must come first.

We Are Slowly Killing Our Soil

We all want nice looking lawns and landscapes. So we take our leaves and grass clippings to the dump, removing essential organic matter. And every spring we apply broadleaf weed controls to kill the weeds emerging in our lawns. These same toxins kill or debilitate trees and woody plants. Pesticides rid lawns of insect pests, but they also kill beneficial micro-organisms that work to keep your soil nurturing and alive. Quick-fix fertilizers applied to compacted or poor soil make lawns grow fast and green, but exhaust grass roots, promoting thatch - a breeding ground for insects and disease. Years and years of these practices have taken a toll. Much soil is in rough shape - depleted of organic nutrients, depleted of organic nutrients and microbiology, deptrived of oxygen and contaminated with chemicals which seep into the water table and threaten our irreplaceable water supply.

Healthy Soil Means a Healthy Landscape.

A NOFA certified
Organic Land Care Professional

Organic Soil Solutions program starts with a soil food web analysis which measures type of soil, thatch levels, root depth, pH, organic matter, primary, secondary and micro-nutrient levels and salt content. The test results help us apply the right soil amendments. We need a healthy soil for a healthy lawn. A healthy soil is 25% air, 25% water and 50% mineral and organic matter.

Organic Soil Solutions uses a number of products and services to improve the health of the soil and lawn. We want the soil to have all the air, water, nutrients and biology it needs. We apply compost tea, which we brew for 24 hours and is full of biology. We over seed problem areas in the spring and the fall and add organic fertilizers to make sure there are plenty of nutrients for the biology to break down. We also add soil conditioners, kelp and compost. Mowing high helps the roots develop and shades out sun loving broadleaf weeds.

Organic Soil Solutions Benefits

• Tougher, healthier trees and shrubs A healthy soil benefits all life living on and in it, including us. There is more beneficial biology and fewer pathogens, more air and less compaction and more organic matter and plant available nutrients. Flowers and shrubs have brighter colors, more bud development and healthier foliage.
• Stronger turf means less watering Grass roots grow in the spaces between soil particles. By relieving compaction, providing organic matter and mowing high, roots are able to grow deeper and access water farther into the soil. Water retention is better in a soil with a decent amount of organic matter and pore space. Roots grow deeper on lawns with longer blades and deep, infrequent watering.
• Mow less, pollute less The grass plant wants to be a lot taller than we would like. It wants a lot of leaf surface to perform photosynthesis and manufacture food to store in the roots. Each time we mow it short, the plant has to tap those food resources to grow more leaf surface. A lawn mowed short is in a constant state of stress and can’t grow deep roots. A lawn at 3 to 4 inches is pretty happy and looks that way.
• More grass, fewer weeds Weeds have a big advantage over grass when it comes to throwing seeds around. For the most part, we don’t allow the grass to produce seeds. By top dressing with seed in the spring and slice seeding in the fall we level the playing field. Most weeds enjoy compacted soil with poor biological diversity. A healthy soil favors the cool season grasses over the weeds.
• Have fun with your lawn Everyone should be able to chew on a blade of grass without worrying. Make noise with a blade of grass between your thumbs. Roll around on it or have a picnic. Walk on it after an application. Feel good about your lawn and enjoy it.

We have seen the results from the soil up. We're confident you will too.

We offer this website as a service to learn more about the organic process. Once you have made your decision, or if you would like to know more, please contact Mike Murray at: mikem@organicsoilsolutions.com or 781-937-9992.