Lawn clippings on veg patch
I was told recently that I should not put lawn clippings on the soil
since they 'take away the nitrogen'. I can't see why and I would have thought any greenstuff put back into the soil is a good thing. Any comments? |
Lawn clippings on veg patch
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:10:48 +1000, Erik Vastmasd
wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:08:18 -0700 (PDT),when reading "rec.gardens", I'm certain I caught a glimpse of "Pete L " saying: I was told recently that I should not put lawn clippings on the soil since they 'take away the nitrogen'. I can't see why and I would have thought any greenstuff put back into the soil is a good thing. Any comments? I'd rather see lawn clippings first added to a compost bin or compost heap together with other garden cuttings, vegetable peelings etc. When it finishes composting you then have an excellent product to add to your garden. That would be ideal, of course, as a soil additive, but the usual purpose of using grass clippings, especially in a vegetable garden is as mulch, not soil enrichment, although the mulch can certainly be turned in at the end of the season and used for enrichment. As long as there are no weed killers/preventers on the clippings, they work quite well as vegetable garden mulch. They can be used to mulch elsewhere, too, but they are not particularly attractive. Boron |
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