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07-04-2006, 05:36 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden

wrote:
Steveo said:

wrote:
Jos. Wheeler said:

I've got a well established 31 tall fescue lawn growing in Atlanta's
hot clay soil (nicest one in the neighborhood, actually). I've always
used the grass catcher on my mower but I'm getting tired of emptying
the bag all the time.

If I just let the clippings spray out onto the lawn, would I get
thatch build-up---

Yes. Very much so.

Nope. Clippings aren't thatch. Clippings will smother the turf long
before they become part of the thatch layer.

I never said they "were" thatch.

One has nothing to do with the other. You said 'very much so'.