If you have a lawn, you’ll have plenty of grass clippings. Most people just compost them or put them out for collection, but there are so many other great uses for this wonderful resource.
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hope his eyes get well. i even do bad with my eyes like him.
I only have my lawn (about 3/4 of an acre) to produce grass clippings to use in our vegetable garden…been doing it for years! It works, my soil now is amazing and our trees provide leaves for our fall mulches for all of our garden beds. Simple is better!
Great video…Thank you!
Mike
What about weeds? Our "lawn" is more of a salad with several types of grasses, a half dozen lawn flowers, and various unidentified weeds. Should I use that on my plants, or just give it to our compost heap?
I mulch with grass, but put layers of nespaper or light cardboard to control weeds
Don't you get a lot of weed seed in the grass therefore causing a need for more weeding? My garden is not at my home so I only have time to weed once a week.
Thanks Ben. One other idea: I stuff kitchen scraps in heaps of grass clippings. The clippings seem to help with keeping the critters away from these morsels which decay quickly. The final fermented piles then get added to the main compost. Free is my favorite word!
Asked my neighbour for their grass clippings yesterday when they mowed their lawn. Ended up with six bin bags full of grass, a compost bin steadfastly refusing to take anymore grass and no idea what to do with the rest. This video landed just at the right time! I've still got tons of grass but it's either steeping in water, drying in the sunshine or spread over the garden. Thank you, both for the tips and your timing!
Hey Ben, great video ! I use my and my next doors gras to grow my potatos. That works wonderful. But the birds like it too..
Ben, I’m growing at an allotment and can use a bag when it’s my turn to mow the paths, but there are tons of weeds and grass gone to seed that invariably get mixed in, especially since we have started mowing less frequently as part of protecting the wildlife. I read somewhere that I could use the grass clippings 2-3 inches deep, thick big clumps, and the heat would kill the weed and grass seeds, so I’m using it in areas that I’m trying to reclaim as well as more thinly around other plants. But is it bad that I’m introducing all these weed and grass seeds?
I did not see you utilizing chickens or sheeps in your garden. Is there a reason for it ? You can feed grass clipings or kitchen waste to both animals and collect manuer of them. This sounds like a fast composting process also, you dont need to wait for your composts to rot well enough.
Really enjoyed this, more of the same please!
I'm a bit surprised that you use a gasoline-powered mower. Where I live our electricity is all from hydro-electric dams and so electric mowers are much more environmentally friendly…
Do you not have to worry about the rhizomes growing grass in your garden?
I have stared to use gras clipings! i think anything i can grow for free and not have to carry in is so so so much beter than carrying it. Im letting it dry out 1st tho.
I have a push along mower for £3 from the dump which cuts my front lawn. My back garden is mainly grass and took longer to dry this spring and i have struggled to mow it. I decided. I didnt want to have two grassy areas to cut so i have hens now at the back. Great video thankyou
Great video on using grass clippings! I love your ideas!
Is it not just harbouring slugs and snails around your plants?
If I let clipping dry out before adding to compost heap….will it count as browns??
I used clipping from my allotment and got huge amounts of grass growing within my veg, not a good thing.
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Great video again Ben always learn something new thanks 👍
My yard is awful weedy, how to keep the weed seeds from taking root in the garden? Drying?
Hello everyone. I just wanted to clarify that the dilution rates offered for the two versions of the grass tea are indeed correct. The 'pokier' grass tea with the added chicken manure is less diluted/more concentrated because it has been brewed for just a few days. However, it arguably offers a more balanced nutrient profile because of the added chicken manure. The grass tea without the manure is brewed for a much longer time – a few weeks – so it must be diluted further to compensate. Hope this explains any niggling questions on that one! 🙂
All of my grass is the natural grow in my area but mixed in the shaded areas is moss. Will these clippings be ok?. Will I have to worry about grass or moss growing amongst my veggies? Is the grass tea good for summer veggies, like tomatoes, peppers and squashes or even melons?
Thank you for your videos, this is really useful, thanks so much.
Your videos get more and more wholesome as time goes on. Great for all of us on here
I love your videos! Great work!
Great video!
I have started using grass clippings as a mulch around my potatoes in pots to help retain water. We haven't had any rain for a month here in Surrey and it helps with reducing moisture loss. I mainly use my grass clippings in my compost bins mixed with shredded brown paper and cardboard. I didn't realise you could make organic plant teas with them. Will give that a try.
Because of the drought and heat last summer, we didn't need to mow our lawn till middle of September the grass didn't grow, so I was very lacking in grass for compost last year. Making the most of it this year to get on top of things.
Don't you get lots of weeds when you mow the grass long? From all the grass seeds?
I am pretty new to this stuff! My grass is filled with weeds and dandelions; would I still be able to use my grass clippings for mulch?
Wish I had grass, instead I have 7 acres of white sand. Nothing but weeds grow in it during winter 😂
Hi, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge of garening with us.
I got potted rhubarb that were healthy and lush, but they haven't much dirt and seem to be root bond.
I want to put them in the ground to save them they seem to be dying.
I live in Ohio USA , I know spring and fall is best, but if they diy, what's the point in not giving them a chance in the ground.
I've cut some of my hedge down, and want put on compost, but do I treat it as brown or green 🤔
Is all cardboard ok for the compost? Or can the ink from some cardboard boxes leak into the compost?
I live in a maritime ("swamp") environment, so slugs are a huge problem. If/when the rain stops, I will try drying grass clippings as a mulch…but I'm afraid that when I irrigate the garden with an overhead sprinkler it will re-hydrate the clippings and make a slug habitat. Any ideas?
Thank you!
What about the grass seed? Does grass start growing in your veggie beds?
Poultry manure (urea) and rotting grasses… This is how Niter was made for the production of black powder. I'm guessing the Potassium Nitrate dissolved in the water is the beneficial nutrient you are concentrating you could try using some for the same tricks for better yields. Collecting urine from mammalian sources can help speed up the process even further, keeping it wet but not submerged will improve heat retention for the fermentation process and drying your grasses out first will improve yield by allowing the nitrogen to soak in from the start rather than having to diffuse.
In the production of salt peter for gunpowder, the mixture was fermented first then soaked to extract the salts and allowed to evaporate or the plant material was burned away completely and the white ash was soaked in water, strained and boiled off to concentrate the potash (a mixture of salt peter and other potassium salts).
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Would love to watch more of your videos to learn more..😊
I’ve only a small area of lawn left. However as we’re on clay, I just leave the cuttings on the lawn for the worms to drag down- which they do rapidly.
Using grass as a compost, I do, but as a mulch. I take it grass cuttings grow into weeds is a myth?
What are your thoughts about marestail, can it be used as a feed?
Bad footwear for cutting grass, Ben! Safety first! We need you!
Excellent videos, thank you. I hate having to put all my clippings in the Council's bin, losing that nutrient from my small lawn patch so this gives me a good way of reusing at least some of it. Great channel!
You're like the Alton Brown of gardening. Perfect.
Hey hun! Its my furst year as an allotment holder and you have helped me soooo much. Great vudeos, easy to understand with a great delivery!! Thanks so much. Ive had a flick through the comments but cant see the answer – can i use our grass at home still if the dog 'uses' the grass too??
Do the seeds get composted properly or they show up when the compost is used as top soil?