Hey ya'll. I heard from a friend that when leaves are mulched up and left on the grass it isn't good since it blocks the soil from receiving rain / moisture. Any info about this would be awesome thanks!!
Hey ya'll. I heard from a friend that when leaves are mulched up and left on the grass it isn't good since it blocks the soil from receiving rain / moisture. Any info about this would be awesome thanks!!
I would not call him a friend with that advice. If it were true, then 99% of the lawns in my neighborhood would be dead. Almost everyone of us mulch. Is he in the lawn seed business?
I would not call him a friend with that advice. If it were true, then 99% of the lawns in my neighborhood would be dead. Almost everyone of us mulch. Is he in the lawn seed business?
Depends on what kind of tree to some extent. Depends on just how deep these leaves are when mulched as well. Also how much shade the grass is in. How new the grass is or how well established. I mulch some, shatter up and then pick up some, rake some. Leaves several inches deep do not mulch to well. Leaves several inches deep that get heavy wet snow on will mat down and kill grass and cannot be mulched worth a darn. Small sharp leaves just do not mulch at all in clumpy K31 grass as they embed themselves into the bottom of the clumps and then smother the fine fescue leaveing you with nothing but grass clumps after a few years. The same tree that provides those leaves here have long flexible stems that seperate and will weave themselves into bermuda grass so thick the grass suffers in the spring and the only way to get them out is mow the fall bermuda down to the ground or rake them up. The same tree provides seed pods a foot long to a few inches long and distributes them over a hundred feet around the tree often times several inches deep. These pods left in place will kill everything under them by spring and mulching them is pretty much impossible. The only person that can tell if mulching leaves is correct for the time and place is the person taking care of the leaves.
Hey ya'll. I heard from a friend that when leaves are mulched up and left on the grass it isn't good since it blocks the soil from receiving rain / moisture. Any info about this would be awesome thanks!!
Never thought the tree in his backyard wasn't a good description of them.
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djdicetn
I bought a huge 48" high-speed lawn sweeper for my 54" Craftsman Lawn Tractor back in 2006(complete with dethatcher attachment). What a waste of $350!!! Unless you have a compost bin, all those grass clippings end up being an unsightly "heap" somewhere(not to mention all of the trips as it fills up to empty it.....man that thing was heavy and hard to empty). My wife HATED me piling grass clippings at the back of our yard, so I "parked" the lawnsweeper and bought a $60 mulch kit for the lawn tractor. Muchhhhhhhhhh better, although if I let the grass get a little tall I might have to mow 2-3 passes to get all those clippings cut fine enough to not leave little piles everywhere. I gave the Craftsman Lawn Tractor to my son last fall when I bought my Gravely and my son doesn't know it yet, but now that I have a utility trailer, that lawnsweeper that's taking up so much room in my garage is soon destined for his place:0)
