How to turn grass clippings into compost or mulch

  • Dec 24, 2019

If the plot is broken lawn, it is always the question about the use of cut grass. If the procedure is carried out on the electric lawn mower drive that finely chopping herbs, then remove the hay is not necessary. It will serve as a mulch layer. When large cutting the need to manually turn grass clippings into compost or mulch.

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Using mulch

Hay is a storehouse of nutrients for most plants. It fills the soil micronutrients. Thus on the lawn allowed to remain only chopped grass, otherwise on green coating may appear yellowish spots.

Large hay harvested. To use it as mulch, it is sufficient to dry. Then, a dense layer can be spread in the garden or flower bed. Excellent respond to such a covering layer and trees and shrubs.

Mulch prevents weeds germinate, so there is no need for regular weeding. In addition, it allows you to retain moisture in the soil. soil surface is not dry, and it is not a dense crust.

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When using mulch of hay in the beds of strawberries, or vegetable crops can always get clean fruit or vegetables. Moreover, the lack of contact with wet ground helps protect the crop from rotting process.
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Mulching. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

composting

Compost hay used as a natural fertilizer. He makes the soil more friable and nutritious. Adding compost under the plant attracts the earthworms that are beneficial to the soil characteristics, saturating it with oxygen.

For the preparation of compost it is mixed with other organic residues. Excellent for this purpose will serve as wood chips, peat, lime, weeds from the garden, kitchen waste such as vegetable scraps. You can add a thin cut branches that always appear when pruning trees and shrubs. Useful, and last year's fallen leaves. For quick digestion composition is often added to a mixture of manure or poultry manure. If desired, a pour hole 150-200 g superphosphate.

During the decay of organic matter formed nutritious compost, which helps to improve the composition of the soil. Turnkey fertilizer with characteristics reminiscent of a brown crumbly substance with no odor.
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Compost bin. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

On the site you need to choose a place in the arrangement of the compost pit. Its depth should be 50-70 cm. walls Size - 1 m. Place under the hole is desirable to select slightly elevated to prevent rain water pouring structures. Furthermore, the penumbra is required to make compost. This saves the contents of the heap from excessive moisture loss.

Lawn mowing is necessary every 7-10 days. Once the hay is dry, using rakes it is transferred to a compost pit. There's layers combined with other organic matter, but there is always the grass should be at the top, to prevent too intensive evaporation of moisture.

Twice a day the contents of the pit compost should be mixed using a fork. The procedure helps to saturate the organic oxygen, which accelerate its decay. For rapid composting important microclimate inside the structure, so it is advisable to lay a film of polyethylene or any other dense material.

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