Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: mrs bouquet on June 24, 2021, 16:33
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Is it alright to do that ? If so what are the advantages or otherwise. Thanks Mrs Bouquet
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I think I have read circumstances where it might be useful, but I was taught that leaving grass clippings on a lawn can reduce air/water/light getting to the grass, and could build up to 'thatch', which is what you don't want and would usually scarify out.
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Hello leaving grass on depends on if it's going to be very hot then it protects the roots ,if you have a mulching mower that can chop the grass into 1/4 inch pieces or less then it feeds the grass,as Yorki says it can build up thatch if the grass is long then it needs scarifiing out jezza
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Thanks, the grass was quite short, but I thought without the box it might cut the sticking up grasses, which it did. I did wonder about thatch building up, after I had done it !! So next time i will do it as normal with the box on, thanks again, Mrs B
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I think your grass box we call a grass catcher. I nearly always leave grass clippings on the lawn (I have a mulching lawn mower). The clippings decompose to compost and return nutrients to the soil.
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Hello once over with out the box on wont cause a lot of thatch,it'll take a long while to build up jezzza