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Pick up grass clippings12/27/2022 ![]() ![]() The large mowers used in parks often leave huge piles of clippings that are gold dust. ![]() Until then, I carry a bin bag in case I hit cutting day. If I had my way, I'd cut a strip around the edge and a couple of desire lines through the middle for those in a hurry, leaving the rest so we can all make daisy chains. When I get back I’ll mention when.Last year was so wet that the field was cut only once every six weeks, and as a result this spring it boasted lady's smock ( Cardamine pratensis), pignuts ( Conopodium majus) and ever-larger patches of good friday grass ( Luzula campestris). Potassium is often unsufficient in the soil, but it leaches very quickly from sand so if your lawn was really deficient you’d need to be fertilizing with potassium every 3-4 weeks. Yes, it would be great to have a little potassium but you shouldn’t have to pay two and a half times as much for it. Another was 40.25 pounds of 20-0-8 (20% nitrogen, 8% potassium) for $59.98 per bag which works out to $7.45 per pound of nitrogen. ![]() I found a 16 pound bag of 35-0-0 (35% nitrogen, no phosphorus, no potassium) for $17.48 which works out to $3.12 per pound of nitrogen. Bermudagrass responds very strongly to nitrogen. Most of the other nutrients may adequate in the soil already or like iron may be unavailable to the plant from granular fertilizer. There’s a big difference in price per pound of N that may not be justified by differences in quality. I would shop first for fertilizer with low price per pound of N (nitrogen), then compare quality factors such as the completeness of other nutrients and slow release. Is the grass possibly bahia? That is one of the fast growing ones. Of course I like a pretty yard just hate mowing! Alternatively I might buy a growth regulator. However, I freely admit that if my grass grew that fast I would strong consider mixing 1/4 teaspoon of roundup with 2 gallons of water and lightly misting a section to see if that stunted the growth. We have had a year of heavy rains and temperatures in the high 90’s. This spring I put another 500# lime in March and 500# of fertilizer. I put 1500# of lime on last July along with a minimal amount of bermudagrass fertilizer. I planted a seed from Pennington that they warned me was a very aggressively growing variety. I’m sure the cattle and hay industry would be very interested in this accomplishment. Please pass on your secret for growth.I’ve never heard of growth of this nature. My understanding is that you have a yard you are cutting at three fouths of one inch on roughly a two day interval, and you are getting piles of clippings 6 inches deep!!! 3/4″ is too low to mow any grass unless it is on a golf course. Some cities will not pick up grass clippings (but you could make a composte pile with clipping and newspaper).Īll you need to do is to raise the height of cut up to 2 1/2-3″, then mow once a week no more than twice and that will cure the clippings problem. Does anyone have an opinion on these?Ī mulching mower should work just fine. Would a mulching mower work in this case? I’m thinking about a Trac-Vac. PS-I do not like mowing either and often let my grass get too high but a good mulching mower usually saves me. The clipping should decompose but may cause spotting if allowed to pile up (shading effect). You need to mow more frequently and use a mulching mower. Will this hurt anything or should they be removed? The clippings this year are about 6″ thick in furrows. I seeded Bermudagrass 13 months ago and started mowing 6 weeks later. ![]()
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