Lawn Cuttings

[Cornish Boy]

Now moving to  new home with a large lawn, have to get a new better petrol mower, but grass cutting will be plentyful....any help with what to do with them...

compost and how?...take to recycle?...leave for bin man?...what do you do...please help if you can...

          Thank-you.

[Jules001]

We live in an area where the council provide brown bins for garden waste, although we haven't got ours yet. We currently have two compost bins one of which we bought from the council for �10 and the other hubby built out of an old pallet. we compost our grass cuttings, just make sure that you don't just put grass in as it tends to go a bit slimy and smelly, we tend to alternate with other garden waste or vegetable peelings, tea bags etc, we also add a compost accelerator which you can buy in Woolies, or garden centres etc , it takes time to rot down,but is virtually maintenance free and you can get lovely compost for free

[woofgang]

I have too many cuttings to compost in the way Jules001 describes, so i just throw them on the back of the borders or into odd corners of the garden. They break down much more slowly that way but do break down, don't smell and aren't wasted

[Solarjunkie]

Just mow frequently & leave it where it stands - no raking or carting around & it enriches the ground. Think about it, that's what they do in parks etc!

[woofgang]

well yeah but its the mow frequently bit that I am not inclined to do!!