[Ian_P]

I have a new lawn at home, completely weed free, and its growing like crazy, I am cutting three times a week.

It is producing one dustbin bag of excellent clean grass clippings each cut.

How good are these as a mulch for the water hungry things, beans, courgettes, squashes, tomatoes etc?

I certainly need some help to keep the weeds down and hopefully before long the sun will come out and a mulch might help me cut dopwn on watering a bit.

Thanks all

Ian

[Jim T]

I have a new lawn at home, completely weed free, and its growing like crazy, I am cutting three times a week.

It is producing one dustbin bag of excellent clean grass clippings each cut.

How good are these as a mulch for the water hungry things, beans, courgettes, squashes, tomatoes etc?

I certainly need some help to keep the weeds down and hopefully before long the sun will come out and a mulch might help me cut dopwn on watering a bit.

Thanks all

Ian

Well I use our grass cuttings for all our new trees and bushes.

I just hadn't thought of using them for courgettes etc but I have for tomato bushes and wigwam beans.

Does anyone know any reason why not?

[jaycee]

The Organice veg bed at the Inverewe Gardens in Scotland use the grass cutting to mulch their potatoes. I have tried this and over the past three years have found it to be very effective.

[splodger]

i have used grass clippings as a top layer in my little cucurbits hotbed - to help keep heat and moisture in.

grass can take a long time to rot down - but if you heap it up and let it break down (for a year or so)  it produces a lovely compost / mulch for you beds.

i also put a layer in the compost heap too - but not too much

[kentishlad]

Hi,
I know I read in a 'Bob Flowerdew' book he uses grass cuttings as a green mulch, I did this last year amongst my brassicas and it worked fine, by the end of the year you wouldn't have known it had been there.

I might be right in thinking that brassicas would like the nitrogen boost from the cuttings too.

Wayne.