What is clipping today my friends? We are talking yes about grass clippings in the garden.

I don't have a lawn, although I think my attitude towards

lawns has softened slightly. I think there's perhaps space for a small lawn in the garden, probably a more natural lawn, one that is not really

dumped on with chemicals and herbicides and perhaps not even really a lawn in the

traditional sense, more of a ground cover section of the garden, but let's imagine we do have a lawn

how do we use the grass clippings that come out of that lawn I remember as a kid

one of my chores to get my allowance every week was to mow the lawn and then we just threw the grass clippings in the trash and that was that.

What a waste. I really wish that we didn't do that but we didn't know any better back then.

I didn't grow up as a gardener.

So using grass clippings in your garden

can make it healthier, and again, it repurposes

your yard waste in an eco-friendly way.

So let's go ahead and talk about some of the ways that you can use

grass clippings. The first one is the most obvious. It's going to be using it as a mulch. You can use it

around flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, etc. Now you don't want to do it too much so I would say maybe a 2 to 3 inch

thick layer near the base of plants maximum. You don't really want to do more than that because it's

prone to matting. And you don't want to use grass clippings from an extremely long lawn that you mowed down. You don't want anything more than about one

or two inches long on each of the blades. So you can actually get special mulching blades or mow using

a special mower.

mulching blades just chop grass blades into smaller and finer pieces,

which makes it a little bit easier for them to decompose

because there's more surface area.

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