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  • Mulching with grass clippings?

    Was reading the other day about using grass clippings/mowings as a mulch...

    We have loads of grass cuttings, as we've got a huge lawn, so technically, I could mulch all my beds, and still have some left over for the compost!

    How effective is grass on it's own? Would I have to do anything with it? Do they have to be fresh, or can they be slightly rotted to use?

    (Sorry for the millions of questions!!)

  • #2
    I believe Two Sheds uses clippings over potatoes instead of earthing up. If I hadn't 'done to death' most of my grass I'd consider doing the same. I would think it would be better to let it wilt a bit but it needn't be rotted.
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    • #3
      Hi
      Last year I planted my leeks through newspaper and then mulched with grass clippings on the top to keep mositure in and it worked really well, the newspaper was wet to start with - Good luck

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      • #4
        Hi Over, grass clippings are also good at the bottom of the trench before you put your potatoes in.
        good Diggin, Chuffa.

        Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

        http://chuffa.wordpress.com/

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        • #5
          Cut the (huge) lawn at work today - Green bin full of grass clippings - unfortunately no way to get them to the lottie, so they've gone in the council green bin. If I had transport they would have been put in the bottom of the bean trench, some on the compost, and some for mulching round the strawberries.

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          • #6
            Grass Clipping Mulch is great for potatoes (prevents scab) - and it means you don't need to earth them up - put on in no more than 2 inch thick layers at a time. Here's one I did earlier: potato grass mulch on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
            It's apparently also good on carrots to prevent Carrot Root Fly (haven't tried this myself though).
            Last edited by Two_Sheds; 11-05-2008, 04:46 PM.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              "Grass Clipping Mulch is great for potatoes (prevents scab) - and it means you don't need to earth them up - put on in no more than 2 inch thick layers at a time.
              Would you put the grass onto potatoes still green, wilted or rotted?

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              • #8
                I put it on fresh. You wouldn't want to be touching it once it starts 'cooking' - if left in a pile to rot it gets really hot and stinky. That's also why you don't put huge amounts on at once ... just a two inch layer at a time to prevent it heating up.
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  It all makes sense though i do worry about using grass clippings as a mulch.
                  I once see more slugs on a pile of grass clipping than i ever did see in my whole life!

                  I would be fretting too much about the wee beggars taking advantage of slug Paradise to use grass cuttings as a mulch myself.

                  Wren

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                  • #10
                    hm we just cut the very overgrown grass so got loads of the stuff (only had the energy to rake up and bin half of it), so i might put some in my strawberry pots, maybe round the peas too?

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