That’s how the clippings will break down and pass important nutrients across the whole surface area of your lawn. Why is mulching difficult to pull off in damp conditions? Well when mulching you’re aiming to coat the surface of your lawn in a layer of finely chopped grass clippings.
Mulching is Very Difficult If Grass is Damp This means you have to look at a mower with a more powerful engine (if gas) or motor (if electric). A cheap electric mower for example just doesn’t have the oomph needed to do the job right. The problem comes when you try to use an underpowered mower to mulch. You Need a More Powerful MowerĪs we’ve just mentioned, for mulch to be beneficial to your lawn (and that’s really the whole reason you’re mulching in the first place, right?), it needs to be chopped up nice and fine. The reason being that mulch needs to be chopped extremely finely and to do that your mower blade needs to be nice and sharp every time you wheel the mower out onto your lawn. But if you want to mulch your grass, you may well need to increase the frequency of your blade sharpening to 2 or 3 times per year. Depending on the type of mower you have, maintenance may well just be limited to an annual sharpening of the blade (with the exception of gas mowers, which require a few additional maintenance steps). Increases Lawn Mower Maintenanceįor most people, the less maintenance the better when it comes to their lawn mower. And that’s not even taking into account the wind…If it’s windy your paths and patio area will look like they’ve become part of your lawn. Those clippings will stick to your boots and you’ll end up trailing clippings all over your yard. Mulching grass instead of bagging your clippings can be a messy affair, especially if the grass is slightly damp or you’re mulching tall grass. But rarely does the reality come anywhere close to that expectation. A lawn that even the Queen of England wouldn’t be disappointed to see out of the palace window. Whenever you see shots of a freshly mulched lawn in the marketing materials that lawn mower manufacturers produce, it’s picture-perfect. And besides, there are lots of other things you can do with grass clippings after mowing. We just think it’s important that you’re aware of things that can potentially go wrong. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not staunch anti-mulchers here. If you’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about mulching, here are a few drawbacks for you to consider. You’ll find plenty of eager recipients.2 Disadvantages of Mulching Grass: A Quick Recap A Few Reasons Why Mulching Can Be Bad for Your Lawn and they’ll burst forth in the early spring with loads of greens, while your other veggies are just sprouting.ĭon’t let spare garden produce go to waste! Take it to a senior citizens’ apartment complex. The plants will grow to medium size before winter sets in. To have beautiful and delicious greens early in the year, try sowing spinach in the middle of autumn. This eliminates hoeing and, by leaving the grass compost in place, we can spread it over the garden the following spring. Digging down into the soil we find a solid mass of uniformly shaped potatoes, which we simply pick off the ground. Heavy rains compress the grass compost into a dense mass, and at harvest time we simply remove the grass mat by rolling it back with a garden rake.
When our potatoes are about a foot tall we drag the clippings out to the garden and carefully pile their warm contents around the base of the plants, covering them until only the tips of the plants show above the grassy compost.īy using lawn clippings to mulch potatoes the potatoes grow remarkably fast, getting close to five feet tall before tipping over.
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We used to let the garbage service haul away our bags full of clippings - then we decided to use them ourselves. We have a big lawn, and eliminating the grass clippings had always been a problem. When our potatoes are about a foot tall we drag the clippings out to the garden and carefully pile their warm contents around the base of the plants.Ī MOTHER reader shares her technique for using lawn clippings to mulch potatoes.
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