What will it do to or for my lawn?
2006-11-29 23:09:44 · 14 answers · asked by oohJOHNNY 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
If you have a mulching mower, mulch them! It's great for the lawn! If you don't have a mulching mower, you can always mow over them several times until they're mulched! It's much easier on your back to just mulch them, and it's great for the lawn!
2006-11-29 23:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by MHB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rake them up and put them in your compost pile. DON'T mulch them. but if you do, than plan on dethatching your lawn. Mulching is not cut out to be as good as people think.
Each time you mulch your grass,your putting a thin layer of mulch on the ground around the area where the grass comes through the ground. This is NOT good. The mulch prevents moisture, air and nutrients from getting to the roots and it's only worth about 6% nitrogen.
Mulch needs water & air to break down. If you keep covering the previous mulched area with a new layer, your preventing the bottom layers from breaking down.
We dethatch lawns in the Spring and if I don't turn the piles monthly (like I'm suppose to) I can find thatch from the previous year not broken down.
RAKE UP THE LEAVES
2006-11-30 01:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by roseofsharons2002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What it may do to your lawn is - leave pale patches in the spring, it can also prevent air from reaching the roots of your grass.
What it will do for it - act as an insulator to the roots, act as a fertilizer.
The best thing to do IMHO is to get a mulcher or a mulching mower and go over them. It breaks the leaves up so they degrad faster, which heats and insulated the roots of the grass as well as fertilizes, it prevents the pale patches, and it also helps with the airation problem that full leaves cause.
HTH
2006-11-29 23:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by Star 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the leaves are really thick, it will kill the grass and then you will have to start over next spring. You can rake them and put in bags, or do like I do and run my mower over them a couple of time and mulch them down into little pieces. These little pieces eventually mulch back down into the ground and is actually good for the soil. I think mowing the leaves is much easier than raking. Good luck!
2006-11-30 01:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by Lost in Maryland 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really best if you mow the leaves. It's not as strenuous as raking the leaves & it helps them break down. This way they will nurish your lawn.
If you don't care about the grass, you won't be arrested. Just depends on how badly you want a nice looking lawn.
2006-11-29 23:13:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't bother with them. They are covered by snow and next summer they are gone into the ground which I have been told is good for my lawn. And it is green and healthy every year. Others say they are not good.
2006-11-29 23:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
While it's true, leaves have a lot of nutrient value, they would have to decompose for many years to be of value. So, you can either mow them and chop them up, then leave them. Or rake them up and get rid of them or burn them if allowed. Otherwise they'll just block the sunlight from the grass.
2006-11-29 23:13:13 · answer #7 · answered by rebecca_sld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave them there is you don't want to clear them up, they do no harm and will rot into the earth providing nourishment for the lawn.
The wind will blow them about so that they don't stay laying on the same patch of grass.
2006-11-29 23:15:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your lawn will die if you leave the leaves on the ground.
2006-11-29 23:11:35 · answer #9 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you leave those leaves there,the moisture and the covering will block out the sunlight and kill your grass.
2006-11-29 23:12:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋