DaveDay34 wrote:
big snip

Ned,

I don't want to start an arguement, but I think you disagreed with
what I said in reply to the original mail, and yet here you seem to
be agreeing with most, if not all of what I said (?).

Dave.

;-)
'Perfectly logical explanation. .... I think.
Your first post was timed at 22.10.
When that was posted, I was composing my first response to fj (which
was not a retort to your post which I had yet to see) timed at 22.16.
My response to your first post was timed at 22.41 and my posts appear
out of order due to the threading.

But for what it is worth,
- my mulched grass does not dry on the surface of the lawn.

If the grass is long,
- yes, the mulching action will not not complete and will leave a
residue, so don't let it get long or raise the cutting height or do it
at slow speed or if you are obsessed with it, do it twice. Much the
same technique as one would use with a conventional mower. ;-)

If the grass is anything less than absolutely dry it will stick
together in clumps no matter how well it's mulched,
- (question of degree here, I think) sure it will clump *if the grass
is wet* as I have found when it has started to rain while I'm mowing
and the mulching tray gets clogged up. Under 'normal' grass cutting
conditions my mulcher does not 'clump'.

FWIW I'd use a good mower and collect the clippings and
compost them,
- from a 3,000sq m lawn? How big a compost heap would that be? And
where is the roughage coming from to mix with that amount of grass?

I don't think I have changed my tune. Mulching works fine (in my
experience).
:-)

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ned