What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. My name's Kevin. Today we're talking about

grass clippings in mulching specifically. I know there's a lot of different uses for grass clippings,

but today we're talking about

mulching because a lot of us still have lawns let's face it and a lot of us still

have to mow our lawns hopefully and that that biomass instead of having it sent out in the trash or maybe to the municipal compost

facility, why not use it as mulch?

It will conserve moisture, it will cool the root zone, it will cool the root zone it will add anywhere from 25 to 30% of nutrients back into the

soil and it has a ton of nitrogen I mean every plant nitrogen. It's one of the most fundamental elements that a plant needs.

So there are a lot of benefits to mulching with grass.

Now the question is do you mulch with dried grass clippings or do you mulch with

fresh grass clippings and the answer is both. If you're going to mulch with

fresh clippings you should only lay it about a quarter of an inch thick.

And that's because if you lay it any thicker than that, the grass will start to compact and

it will smell and rot as it decomposes.

You know, if you lay, let's say like an inch layer

and then you water on top, it's just going to remain too wet,

there's going to be mold, there's going to be smelly decay, it's not going to remain too wet. There's going to be mold, there's going to be smelly decay.

It's not going to be perfect and nice. And that's what we want. We want something that's just adding to our

garden without taking anything away or adding anything we don't want.

If you're going to use dried clippings, I would recommend going a bit thicker so you can use it

up to inch to two inches. It makes a really good

side dress for vegetable crops. You can also line paths with it to keep down

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