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I paid quite a bit for top shelf fertilizer this spring. I purposefully, (in my own mind) reason, well shit, why bag that cut grass and throw it away? I mean leave it to continue to earn its keep. Is my thinking, stinking? ________,_____________________________ Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people. He's never been a straight shooter. | ||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I have a mulching lawn mower and just leave what it chops up to feed the grass below. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
If you don't have a bunch of weeds or weed seeds in the clippings, and they're not too long, it makes sense to leave them where they fall. Particularly if you paid good money (and time) to put fertilizer down. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I fertilize 3 times a year I have 2.5 acres of yard. I have always mulched with my Kubota zero turn. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
That's what the city recommends. Saves on water, saves the city on picking it up and doing something with it. | |||
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I’d only see a need if it was excessively long before the cut. I just leave mine when it ends up, out in the country here though. | |||
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sounds good. Although for me, every monday the city comes by and sucks up any grass clippings (and picks up any small branches as well) left at the street so thats what I would end up doing with it. ------------------------------ I'm a right wing, anti-illegal, pro-life, gun owning, straight, white, college educated, politically informed, conservative, Christian male. Liberals hate me. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
I attended a University of Maine Master Gardener class a few years back. We touched on lawn care and all the attendant issues. Our instructor leaned pretty obviously towards the tree-hugging eco-freak end of the scale but I'll spare you the various rants and repeat the one thing she said that made sense to me: Cut your lawn more often, leaving shorter clippings and let them decay into the lawn. Free nitrogen, earth friendly. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Caribou gorn |
all depends on how long you go in between mowing and how much you are cutting off when you mow. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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What did she consider to be "more often"? | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
If it builds up, it can and will choke the lawn of water and fertilizer. There's a reason somebody invented the dethatcher. I supposed if you've got a good mulching blade that chops it fine you might be OK, but I bag mine and dump it elsewhere. Dethatch once a year also. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I learned the same thing at a Master Naturalist course I'm taking at West Virginia University. The worst thing one can do is to collect grass clippings and put them in plastic bags to go to a land fill. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
This ^^^^^ Except, as I noted, if you have a lot of weeds or weed seeds. Then you're propagating weeds. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I agree. The only time I put on the bags is when we get a lot of rain and the grass can't be cut and gets too long. Otherwise I cut it short unless it hits a hot spell of 90 and above for a week or two in August. Living the Dream | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
I mulch all year until the falling leaves get too think and then I put the bag on the mower. You do need to not let the grass get too high when you mulch or you'll leave a lot of clumps of grass behind. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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| Three Generations of Service |
It's been several years, but 1 inch sticks in my mind. As in "cut it when it needs an inch off the top". Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Just don't buy Wal-Mart paper lawnbags. They're crap. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
That's what I do. I try to mow every week during the growing season (late spring/early summer). | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
Cut with a bagging mower, compost. Fertilize every few months with Revive magical dried turkey poop. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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Not many weeds, just a 1/2 acre in a neighborhood I have a X-Mark 48” walk behind, friggin’ thing is a beast I tell ya Side discharge, not mulching blades I cut when it looks like it, mower is set to 3” cutting height I am on pressurized irrigation, so one fee for the whole year to water - snake river plain I was looking for some good info not to bag and there some good comments here ________,_____________________________ Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people. He's never been a straight shooter. | |||
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