On Fri, 17 May 2013 20:06:26 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:


Any tips please?

If you dry them (rake them up rather than collect them) then they
won't heat up when you apply them as a mulch.
Thin layers regularly of fresh clippings is the way to avoid it
heating up.
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Two things that help make mowings work well as a mulch are 1 cut grass
regularly, keep it short, this cuts down on seed heads, 2 apply it at the
right thickness, too much and it heats up, to little and it doesn't do its
job, couple of inches works for me.

It goes without saying that if you are using the mowings as a mulch don't
use weed n' feed type products!!

Thanks for the warning, I was aware, and at the moment
have just done the second cut following weed & feed.
All the cuttings gone into bin bags to go down to the
recycling at some stage.

Probably start using 4th cutting for mulching, unless
anyone throws uo their hands in horror


I'd have the rest in a big heap in a corner for growing worms.
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