My neighbour mowed her lawn and a lot of clippings came onto my flower garden, so now it's on the soil where some of my flowers are, so what should I do with them?
2007-09-19 09:57:24 · 7 answers · asked by ? ? ? 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The grass clippings will eventually decompose back into the soil if they are worked lightly into the surface.
They will go through a "brown" stage. If you don't like the way brown grass clippings look, you can rake them up and throw them in the trash.
If you leave them in your flower garden, and they are about an inch deep, they serve as a beneficial mulch----retaining moisture for your plants, minimizing weed sprouting, etc.
I sincerely hope this helps you.
PAMELA J.
2007-09-19 10:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by JUDGE'S JUNGLE 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would leave them there...they will amend the soil in your flower garden...leaving nutrients. It may not look too cute, but it is a good thing!
To make it look better until the grass decomposes. you can rake around the soil so the clippings are covered.
2007-09-19 10:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by acksherly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow free mulch. I agree with those above me. Make sure that it is not thicker than say a quarter of an inch or thinner under your plants. We have a problem with white ants so we have to be very careful. If kept moist it will degrade faster especially in hot weather. Going green is good. All leaf material from my trees is collected and sprinkled in my flower beds. The rock thrushes, longclaws and hadedas love me for it.
2007-09-20 02:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Rooikat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read article recently that encouraged people to GO GREEN by taking any and all little steps that they could, and one of the EASIEST suggestions was taking off the grass catcher on your mower to keep out of trashbags and landfills, and by letting clippings stay in the grass, you will actually be mulching your yard . or you could use them as mulch in flower beds. So, she might be helping you and earth at the same time. The grass is dead...so it won't GROW..but it might help prevent some weeds from growing faster.
2007-09-19 23:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by moonartblue 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just leave them it will decompose into a good matter for your garden but only remove them if ther are a bunch of clippings that have stolons or rhizomes that grass can grow from. i dont know what kind of grass clippings they are but here in texas we remove them because most of our grass is either st. agustine or bermuda and new groth does come from those clippings
2007-09-20 07:15:37 · answer #5 · answered by Larry A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
leave them.. they should break down in a couple of weeks. Cover the clippings with some nice mulch if you don't like the look of them.
2007-09-19 10:03:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
mulch not to thick, however
2007-09-19 10:04:20 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋