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Composting Grass Cuttings
Now that the lawn mowing season has arrived, I thought I would pass on
my experience of the last few years. If you read about composting grass, you are told to tear newspaper into strips and mix it with the clippings. My technique is just to spread a layer of single sheets of newspaper on top of the heap, then add about 2-3 inches of clippings, then more newspaper etc. I limit this to about 6 inches depth without any other compostable material. This works a treat for me with no wet sloppy lumps of compressed uncomposted grass cuttings, and is much easier than tearing up paper! I would add that I work on a two year composting system, so there is plenty of time. -- Roger T 700 ft up in Mid-Wales |
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Composting Grass Cuttings
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:16:21 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote: Now that the lawn mowing season has arrived, I thought I would pass on my experience of the last few years. If you read about composting grass, you are told to tear newspaper into strips and mix it with the clippings. My technique is just to spread a layer of single sheets of newspaper on top of the heap, then add about 2-3 inches of clippings, then more newspaper etc. I limit this to about 6 inches depth without any other compostable material. This works a treat for me with no wet sloppy lumps of compressed uncomposted grass cuttings, and is much easier than tearing up paper! I would add that I work on a two year composting system, so there is plenty of time. I always have more leaves than I can deal with. So some get turned into leaf mould whilst others are stuffed into black plastic dustbins with drainage holes in them. Lids on and the leaves dry without decomposing. These provide me with stuff to mix with grass cuttings. Two black bins of leaves do me fine for a year and then get replenished in the autumn. Someone I used to know simply piled up his mowings (which were extensive) on a patch of waste ground.The smell caught in your throat. The heap got quite big and, one day, spontaneously combusted. Seems even pure grass will rot and heat up in the middle if the pile is thick enough. Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling happily from the east end of the totally dry and sunny Swansea Bay. |
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Composting Grass Cuttings
On 25/03/2012 21:24, Jake wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:16:21 +0100, Roger Tonkin wrote: Now that the lawn mowing season has arrived, I thought I would pass on my experience of the last few years. If you read about composting grass, you are told to tear newspaper into strips and mix it with the clippings. My technique is just to spread a layer of single sheets of newspaper on top of the heap, then add about 2-3 inches of clippings, then more newspaper etc. I limit this to about 6 inches depth without any other compostable material. This works a treat for me with no wet sloppy lumps of compressed uncomposted grass cuttings, and is much easier than tearing up paper! I would add that I work on a two year composting system, so there is plenty of time. I always have more leaves than I can deal with. So some get turned into leaf mould whilst others are stuffed into black plastic dustbins with drainage holes in them. Lids on and the leaves dry without decomposing. These provide me with stuff to mix with grass cuttings. Two black bins of leaves do me fine for a year and then get replenished in the autumn. Someone I used to know simply piled up his mowings (which were extensive) on a patch of waste ground.The smell caught in your throat. The heap got quite big and, one day, spontaneously combusted. Seems even pure grass will rot and heat up in the middle if the pile is thick enough. Cheers, Jake ======================================= Urgling happily from the east end of the totally dry and sunny Swansea Bay. Yep. That happened to a relative of mine. Quite a fierce fire too |
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