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Posted by Alyson (U14883141) on Saturday, 24th March 2012
Hi,does anyone have any thoughts on using the mulcher on the lawn mower instead of collecting the grass?Someone suggested it may encourage moss to grow.Thanks!
You would be promoting a 'thatch', a thick (ish) matt of dead grass.that most others spend ages trying to lift and get rid of ! Cheers, Tony.
With a normal mower you do need to collect the mowings as aleady explained. There is a type of mower that shreds the mowings really fine and deposits them back onto the lawn. The small size of the mowings apparently helps them decay quickly so that they do not form a thatch. I have not tried one so don't know how effective they are. This link shows one:
Alyson, leaving the mowings on the lawn will in time form a thatch, I know I tried it a long time ago.
Thatch raises the level of the lawn, it is dry and easily drained, in time the grass roots migrate into the thatch and then you have trouble.
It is Ok in wet weather but in a dry spell the lawn dries out rapidly as the thatch does not hold moisture and the grass dies.
Having experience with Bowling greens I found scarifying one of the essential things we had to do and that meant getting all the thatch off every year.
Lawns are hard work if done properly mine is now the same as the rest of the road, kept not too short in spring and summer then scarified a winter, weed and feed then left to rest, both lawns got the first cut on Wednesday and the mowings were picked up and bagged.
Frank.
Thank you Frank,I'll just keep gathering the cuttings up----not a problem with my nice newly serviced lawn mower.
Thanks Goldilocks,I think I'll carry on as usual and collect the mowings
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