Grass clippings add nutrients to our yards and keep our yards waste bin empty. Mulching with grass clippings, either on the lawn or in the garden bed, is a time honored method that enhances the soil, prevents weeds, and preserves moisture.
Grass Clipping Garden Mulch
Either fresh or dried trimmings are often collected in the lawnmower bag. This heap of green can go to your municipal compost facility, or use them to help your landscape. For us the lazy gardeners, leave the bag off and let the clippings do their work in the sod.
Lawnmowers with bags became really popular in the 1950’s. You can use the clippings that result from mowing by letting them break down quickly into the soil. Longer clippings can be bagged or raked up and mulched somewhere else, since these stay on the surface of the soil and take some more time to compost. Using fresh grass clippings has many benefits that include cooling the root zone, conserving moisture and adding back up to 25 percent of the nutrients that growth removes from the soil. Mulching with grass clippings has the benefit of taking one more step out of the already drudgery filled garden chore.
Turfgrass clippings contain large amounts of nitrogen. Grass clippings in the garden is the best way to use the refuse and add nitrogen to the soil while you increase the porosity and reduce the evaporation.
Tips For Mulching With Grass Clippings
If you use fresh clippings as mulch, only lay a layer of 1/4 inch thick. This will allow the grass to break down before it begins to smell or rot. Thicker layers have a tendency to remain too wet and can cause mold or smelly decay problems.
Dried clippings can go on thicker and make excellent side dresses for vegetable crops. You can use grass clippings to line paths in the garden and prevent weeds in exposed dirt areas.
For a balanced garden soil amendment, add a ratio of 2 parts of carbon releasing organic amendment for every part of nitrogen. Carbon releasing items like dry leaves, sawdust, or even shredded newspaper aerate the soil to introduce oxygen to bacteria, prevent excess moisture, and compliment the nitrogen.
Dried clippings mixed with 2 times mulch dried leaf litter will create compost with a healthy balance of nutrients and will break down quickly to the correct carbon nitrogen ratio.
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