grass clippings

[dungho]

I have loads of grass clippings from all the paths in our organic veg garden….How best to use them??

[charles]

 The compost heap is its best destination at present, preferably mixed with 40-50% paper and cardboard.

Using mown grass as a mulch is a tempting way to smother weed seedlings but it encourages slugs and can rot into a slimy layer on top of the soil. Later in the season it may also contain lots of grass and weed seeds.

As long as you can add enough brown materials to the compost heap, at the same time as all that grass, it should transform into something more valuable.

[Rachel C]

Does anyone have experience of using spoilt grass clippings ? I have moved into a house where the Dalek composter is half full of grassy slime. I assume this cannot be used as a soil improver or mulch as is but can it be put on a proper compost heap or is it too rancid or empty for even that ?

By the way Charles thank you for an inspirational site. I have just cleared the first of a 30′ by 4′ space on my allotment of couch and bindweed and built a raised bed with scaffold boards. I intend to use your methods on these beds.

[bluebell]

I have had a similar issue and found that mixing in some dryer material and turning it sorted things out.

[Rachel C]

Thanks Bluebell. Good to know all is not lost.

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