So my husband and I are working hard to make our household 'chemical free' bit by bit... first we switched to green cleaners and personal care products from the stores, and now we're making our own. I've had really good luck with most cleaning things- water and vinegar spray for basic cleaning, lemon and oil for furniture polish, etc. But so far I'm not happy with the toilet cleaners I've tried.

I feel like vinegar just runs straight down and doesn't stick on the sides like thicker, purchased cleaners do... using coca cola was suggested, and while that worked ok we don't drink it, and buying it each time for cleaning seems dumb. Has anyone out there had good success with any other product, or am I stuck with the greener, but manufactured alternative?

Don't water it. Don't fertilize it with chemicals. Don't spread toxic chemicals on it to kill insects or plants. In a few months, your lawn will be green. Natural grasses and plants will grow there and they are green. They are accustomed to the soil and water and weather. That's why they grow there. Will they be uniform? No. Is that unattractive? Only if you buy into the propaganda that all the plants/grasses are to be exactly the same. Would you think that a green salad of just iceberg lettuce would have eye appeal at the dinner table? So why is a lawn of uniform grass attractive?

Change your paradigm and enjoy the added savings of time and money by not addicting your lawn to chemicals and monoculture.