Grass Mulching

[Samurailord]

As I had to cut the lawn last night I thought I would have a try at mulching with the clippings.

I placed a layer of about 1 inch deep onto my raised bed, mainly around my leeks (leaving space around the leek for it to grow) and watered it down.

Now I am having second thoughts - have I done right?



What I really don't want it to make a breeding ground for more slugs and snails.

Andy

[Bren In Pots]

An inch is fine Andy, have a read at this thread about mulching :-

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eap_66237.html

[Two_Sheds]

That inch of grass will rapidly decompose. I use a lot of mulches (this year I'm clipping the weeds too, and leaving them on the soil as a mulch) and they don't offer a great home to a slug, because they rot down so quickly.

Where I get most slugs is under black plastic, or under planks of wood

Then I turn the wood over, and salt all the slugs hiding underneath, mwa-hahahahahaha

[Samurailord]

Thanks Bren and 2S - I feel a bit better now.

I won't have to race home tonight and scrape it all off after all

I shall have to ask the neighbours to save their clippings for me too - they already think I'm a little bit strange so this should seal it for them

Andy

[redser]

Be sure to ask them if their grass has been treated with weed killer before you use it

[rustylady]

I shall have to ask the neighbours to save their clippings for me too - they already think I'm a little bit strange so this should seal it for them

Andy

Just make sure they haven't used any weedkiller on their lawn.

[Samurailord]

Good point Redser and Rusty - I hadn't thought of that.

Then again, with most of my neighbours cutting the lawn is about as far as they go, horticulturally speaking.

I get many inquisitive looks when I am in the front tending my raised beds, and loads of very strange looks when I am creeping around the garden with a torch at dusk on my nightly 'Slug Patrol'.

Only a couple have actually asked me what I am planting, and one of those was more interested in the trellis I had put up to screen our patio than what I had growing up it.

SWMBO has no real interest in the garden either - her one contribution this year was to scatter sow salad crops into large pots for me - unfortunately she got carried away and scatter sowed a whole pack of jalapenos as well.

The salad is doing well, but the jalapenos are taking their time to make an appearance - either that or the ninja slugs got to them first!

It's a good job that we like our chillis - we may be inundated come the end of summer!

Andy

[Two_Sheds]

Be sure to ask them if their grass has been treated with weed killer before you use it

... and don't use any that's got dandelion/grass seed in it either.