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What's a good thing to do with grass clippings?

aherndf said:

What's a good thing to do with grass clippings?

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We drop ours off at a recycling centre that in return make a compost for people to use in flower beds and stuff

aherndf said:

What's a good thing to do with grass clippings?

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I currently feed one of my customer's goats she has two and they do a good job disposing of them

Have you ever thought of using your grass clippings as mulch?

I compost everything.

sgmgarden said:

Have you ever thought of using your grass clippings as mulch?

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I have some customers that have me dump and spread clippings in there shrub beds. Looks like crap but something to be said for weed control

aherndf said:

What's a good thing to do with grass clippings?

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Return them to your lawn. Clippings contain nitrogen and other nutrients and when returned to the lawn the clippings recycle nutrients in an organic, slow-release form that promotes steady grass growth. Returning clippings reduces the amount of supplemental nitrogen fertilizer required by lawns.

Ric said:

Return them to your lawn. Clippings contain nitrogen and other nutrients and when returned to the lawn the clippings recycle nutrients in an organic, slow-release form that promotes steady grass growth. Returning clippings reduces the amount of supplemental nitrogen fertilizer required by lawns.

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I have some customers who let me mulch clippings but most believe even though I argue that mulching builds thatch and leaves clippings on the lawn. A lot of people believe this and even if I tell them its not true they don't listen

Ric said:

Return them to your lawn. Clippings contain nitrogen and other nutrients and when returned to the lawn the clippings recycle nutrients in an organic, slow-release form that promotes steady grass growth. Returning clippings reduces the amount of supplemental nitrogen fertilizer required by lawns.

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exotion said:

I have some customers who let me mulch clippings but most believe even though I argue that mulching builds thatch and leaves clippings on the lawn. A lot of people believe this and even if I tell them its not true they don't listen

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Bagging Grass was an effective way of cutting grass back when it first started back in the fifty's, back when mowers simply cut grass. They argue and believe leaving the clippings contribute to thatch because it did then. The big difference between then and now are the mowers used. There mowers then left clippings of 2 to 4 inches in length depending on the frequency of cut, they (the clippings) laid on top of grass and didn't break down effectively, they didn't contribute anything but problems to a lawn but today with the use of things like micro cut blades, gator blades or some type of mulching blades and vacuum decks our grass clipping can be as little as half an inch and they filter down to the soil and recycle nutrients that promotes steady grass growth which is hard for some to understand but you just do what you know is right.

I know it's sometimes hard to talk to and make the older generation understand some things of today and how far we have come since the fifty's and what's scary for me is at 61 years old is wondering where the next generation is going and how foolish we must look to them.

I always mulch.