DON’T RAKE AWAY YOUR LEAVES
Chop those Leaves with your Mower
Take the grass catcher off your mower and mow over the leaves on your lawn. You want to reduce your leaf clutter to dime-size pieces. You’ll know you’re done when about half an inch of grass can be seen through the mulched leaf layer. Once the leaf bits settle in, microbes and worms get to work recycling them. Any kind of rotary-action mower will do the job, and any kind of leaves can be chopped up. With several passes of your mower, you can mulch up to 18 inches of leaf clutter.
Thank you for your note. Also the above is great advice, when I get my grass back (long story but basically my beautiful garden is now a swamp,) I shall follow this advice.
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we never use a grass catcher when we mow. all that green grass and the leaves make great mulch and help protect the grass and provide fertilizer for the grass. take care,
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We don’t have a grass catcher on our mower, but then again we don’t have a tree and we don’t really have grass. Where we live we have to haul in our water and that means we don’t plant grass to water it. When it rains our yard is green, when it doesn’t it isn’t.
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I don’t have to do it so I don’t care.
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That is what my grandmother used to tell me on how to mow. Her lawn was always gorgeous. My son in law rakes the leaves and does not even leave grass clippings on the lawn. Now we know why he has to use all those commercial products to keep the lawn green,hehe. I will keep telling him. Love,
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We’ve never raked our leaves- always mulched them.
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