What can I do with grass cuttings?

[chris]

Currently, am storing them in old compost sacks as I dont have a compost heap/bin yet (would like a darlek really to keep it neat) - planning on getting ont ASAP, but is it alright just sat in the compost bags? If I add veg peelings, etc to it, and browns will that help - then just dump the lot in the bin when I get it?

[binley100]

It might go as bit slimey and smelly... I sometimes use ours as a mulch especially round the raspberries

[Sanjo]

I don't get enough to do much with of our own but I begged the neighbour's off him last year to put round my no dig spuds and he has started to do it again for me this year. Work a treat.

[Glutton4...]

I'm using it, layered with horse manure and chicken coop cleanings, to make up the base of my raised beds. I also use it as a mulch, and for earthing up spuds.

[taff]

mulch....keeps the cats off when it's fresh too.

[smallblueplanet]

I don't get enough to do much with of our own but I begged the neighbour's off him last year to put round my no dig spuds and he has started to do it again for me this year. Work a treat.

Yep, us too - thats grass clippings over the spuds that is.

[eieio]

Use it as a mulch. Especially over spuds. That is what I am going to do this year - need to get hubbie to cut the grass again. Leaving it in black bags will make it go slimey and smell no matter what you add.

[Alison]

mulch....keeps the cats off when it's fresh too.

Our eat the clippings and then come inside to be sick

[HeyWayne]

Mulch mulch mulch mulch. One of those words that sounds more and more daft the more you say it.

I'd suggest taking it out of the bags, as binley said, it'll probably go a bit slimey and smelly. On our allotment we have a massive mound of the stuff delivered every now and then - and if you're downwind of it it can stink! The bottom/centre of it goes a black slimey sludge. Not sure what it's used for - but I sometimes use some of the top layer for mulching.

[chris]

won't it blow away?

[HeyWayne]

won't it blow away?

Not with a thick enough layer.

I thought the same when I first started using it. Then was surprised how much actually stayed. I found mice had taken up shelter in one mulched bed!

Some will blow away, but as it rots it seems to bind - somehow.

[Scottishnewbie]

i always put ours in the village compost cos i thought if i used it on the garden it would just grow as MORE grass! is that not the case then?

[Alison]

i always put ours in the village compost cos i thought if i used it on the garden it would just grow as MORE grass! is that not the case then?

Grass roots will grow on, especially couch grass (or which I have loads if you want any............) but the green bits won't form plants so no need to worry.

[Scottishnewbie]

Grass roots will grow on, especially couch grass (or which I have loads if you want any............) but the green bits won't form plants so no need to worry.

well i guess i should stop losing valuable mulch then eh??? so do i just lay it on the ground or do i need something underneath first?

[Two_Sheds]

won't it blow away?

not if you water it when you lay it

i thought if i used it on the garden it would just grow as MORE grass!

only if it's seeding

do i just lay it on the ground or do i need something underneath first?

Just lay it down, not too thick, and water it so it doesn't blow away