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7. Compost
If you don’t want to leave them on the lawn, one of the easiest ways to put grass clippings to good use in your garden is by composting them. Once you prepare and treat the clippings in the right manner, you’ll be able to recycle the nutrients from the grass in other areas of your garden.
An appropriate fertilizer heap requires a blend of green and darker materials. Crisply cut grass is viewed as ‘green’, thus should be offset by the expansion of some dark colored material, similar to dry leaves, branches, twigs or paper. While including crisp grass clippings, make a point to transform the grass into the heap to improve air circulation and anticipate compaction.
On the other hand, you can leave your grass clippings to dry out totally and turn darker when, obviously, they are viewed as dark colored material!
Glad to have more info on grass clippings. Thanks.
NEVER give grass clippings to horses!! It gives them colic. Never feed to animals without owners consent.
You could fence in the yard and have a lamb or two instead of a dog. I also like the idea to re-use as compost! Thanks for the info!
You must know where the clippings come from. If weed killer has been applied to the lawn, using the clippings in your compost could kill or stunt the growth on anything the compost is used on. Learned this the hard way.