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Composting your lawn clippings
Got a lawn? Let it grow a little higher than normal to help keep it from drying up dying in the summer. Better still for lawn care, leave that cut grass where it falls. Lawn clippings naturally compost pretty easily where they lie and can add nitrogen to you soil. You'll need less chemical fertilizers and may be able to skip them entirely. Fewer chemical fertilizers is good for the environment and better for your family and pets as they won't be walking on treated grass. Bonus, about 18% of american household waste comes from yard waste like lawn clippings and leaves. Skip bagging it and sending it to the dump and you'll save money on your garbage hauling costs. Don't like the look of lawn clippings on your immaculate lawn? Consider composting them instead. You can either go with the extremely low tech pile or invest a bit of money into getting on of those fancy compost barrels which will speed up the process. You can also tuck a barrel discretely among the bushes. Let the clippings dry on the lawn for a day before raking and adding your your compost. This will make them decompose faster as they won't clump together. Special note: if you had your lawn treated with pesticides (boo!) you may not be able to compost your clippings. Why? The pesticides may kill the worms and bacteria that would break down clippings otherwise. Think about that before having your lawn treated. Do you really want your family and pets walking on that? We generally leave our clippings lie here, but have two separate compost piles. One's for slow decomposing stuff like leaves and large yard waste. The other one is for kitchen waste like eggshells, melon rinds, vegetable tops, etc. The kitchen waste one produces pitch black dirt in about two weeks. You can't buy nicer dirt. Neither of the two compost piles is a bit stinky. Generally if your compost smells like anything other than dirt, mulch, or leaves, you're doing it wrong. A properly maintained pile should not smell unpleasant. The usual culprit there is that your pile isn't getting enough air. The bacteria, worms, and fungi need some air to do their job. Use a pitchfork to turn it over and it will break down faster. |
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