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trud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 05:41 AM
Response to Reply #7
10. the bunnies, the birds
like the lawn for foraging. It's full of clover, dandelions, violets.
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  -Grass clippings as mulch in the garden? Is this a good idea? Raven  Jun-05-11 08:35 AM   #0 
  - Try a light layer of dried grass clipping  randr   Jun-05-11 10:08 AM   #1 
  - No!  Botany   Jun-05-11 10:53 AM   #2 
  - Sorry, but I disagree.  Denninmi   Jun-05-11 11:05 AM   #3 
     - over all from an energy and environmental prospective  Botany   Jun-05-11 11:50 AM   #4 
        - From an environmental standpoint, not mowing at all is the best.  Denninmi   Jun-05-11 07:46 PM   #8 
           - but the question was about lawn clippings .....  Botany   Jun-12-11 08:31 PM   #16 
  - Yes, in my view - been doing it for years.  NRaleighLiberal   Jun-05-11 12:26 PM   #5 
  - another vote for leaving them in the lawn  trud   Jun-05-11 06:34 PM   #6 
  - exactly. It's all about if you would rather have the nutrients on the lawn (which we don't), or the  NRaleighLiberal   Jun-05-11 06:53 PM   #7 
     - I fertilize limited areas of my lawn.  Denninmi   Jun-05-11 07:48 PM   #9 
     - the bunnies, the birds  trud   Jun-06-11 05:41 AM   #10 
  - I used to mulch with a layer of grass clippings  Kolesar   Jun-06-11 09:43 AM   #11 
  - I use grass clipping as mulch only where I am not actively growing  Curmudgeoness   Jun-06-11 07:15 PM   #12 
  - I don't know.  Lugnut   Jun-08-11 01:15 AM   #13 
     - That is what I do too. No problems that I could tell.  femmocrat   Jun-11-11 09:16 PM   #14 
        - We have a raised bed.  Lugnut   Jun-12-11 01:16 AM   #15 
 

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