When you mow a lawn what do you do with the grass?

Question

Do you throw the grass away in the garbage or compost it? I like to be eco friendly.

Answer 1

all grass and leaves go into the compost pile.  great to grow next years garden in.

Answer 2

I use a mulching blade on the mower and leave it on the lawn

Answer 3

I normally just leave it there.. sometimes I rake it up and use it as mulch.

Answer 4

compost it

Answer 5

mow a clockwise pattern chopping up the clippings finer as you circle inward

Answer 6

We mow frequently enough that the grass just falls back onto the yard to decompose naturally over time.

Answer 7

Consider that you probably fertilized the lawn...that is threw down fertilizer....and it went into the soil and into the plant roots and up the blade of grass.....now you cut off a portion of those nutrients and are planning to remove them from the yard.     Then next year you will be adding more fertilizer, right?   Sounds like a circle.

   Leave the cuttings on the lawn.  That way the nutrients you bought stay there and are broken down again and reabsorbed into the plant roots.   The rest of the grass matter adds fibre(humus) to the soil, makes it hold water better and longer.

    And if you are one of those that must collect the cuttings, compost it....along with other plant matter  ....makes good soil conditioner for the garden or for shrubs or flowers or the like after a couple of months.   Composts will not attract animals so long as you don't put in meat types(meat also stinks up a compost and does nothing for a garden soil)

Answer 8

You can use it as mulch around trees like banana (they love it much) as long as it doen't have flowers otherwise it will end up as weeds around it.

Answer 9

If the grass isn't too long when I mow, I just let it stay on the lawn as I cut it.  If it is a bit long, I bag it as I mow, then use it as a mulch under my hedge of lilac bushes (if I keep a nice heavy layer, the weeds don't come throughO.

Answer 10

if you leave it there it helps grow more

Answer 11

I think you just put it in a bag? Or just leave it on your lawn.

Answer 12

get a mulching blade for your mower and it will chop up the cut grass nice and fine and you can just leave it on the lawn as an organic addition to the soil and fertilizer for the grass....and you won't have to rake again as long as you cut it often enuff that it's not so long that the blade cannot chop it up.....

Answer 13

Just leave the grass on the lawn.  The grass is thin enough it will decompose right there and refeed the lawn.

If the grass is thick, just compost it.

Answer 14

It depends - if you mow when the grass is not too high - and if it is a really warm and sunny day  - leave it to dry out on the lawn and save yourself work: the worms will pull it back into the lawn, and replenish the fertility of the soil to grow more grass!

But...

If the grass was long and leaves thick clumps on the lawn, then rake up the worst of it, and put it on a compost heap (it is valuable compost material, one of the best). Grass rots well, and also helps other tougher materials to rot.