Is it possible to mulch plants with a mowile grass and how to do it right
Mulching of the lawn, the beds and flower beds with a temporally designated method that improves the structure of the soil, the appearance of some weeds and the remaining moisture prevents. How do I really distribute mowing grass in the garden?
A wel l-kept lawn causes a feeling of pride in a summer resident, but causes a mass of waste due to a haircut. In the meantime, trimming grass can perform many useful functions in the landscape and add plants to nutrients. Mulch made of haircut grass is a simple and effective way to benefit from the Bar Chamber. How do I use mowing grass as a mulch in the garden?
Garden mulch from scraps of grass
Fresh or dried scraps of grass are often automatically compiled in a bag of lawnmowers. This group of green can simply go to your compost if you have it. But many are concerned about the question: Is it possible to leave grass on the surface of the lawn? Or is it better to mulch garden plants?
For us, really lazy gardeners, there is good news. You can remove the bag (box, filler) from the mower and simply let the mown grass work in the skin. However, this is with a low Moravian regime in which trimming is less than 2.5 cm into the root zone of the grass and is quickly destroyed in the ground. With a high haircut, it is better to collect longer scrap in a pocket or to save out of the lawn because they are composted longer and impair the normal development of lawn herbs. This is about the mown grass on the lawn. Now let’s talk about mowed grass more about mulch plants.
Advantages of using fresh grass as mulch
The advantages of mulch plants with mowed grass include cooling the root zone, the preservation of moisture and the addition of 25 percent of the nutrients that removes the green mass of plants during the season. The mulch with mowile grass has an additional advantage, as it takes another step towards the already hard gardening. Small lawn grass contains a large amount of nitrogen, macroelent, which is required for all plants for growth and flowering. This is one of the best ways to use waste – destroy the trim quickly and add nitrogen to the soil, increase its porosity and reduce evaporation.
The cunning made of mowing grass particularly improves its floor when it is sandy, heavy tone or a low content of organic substances.
Does the mowed grass increase the formation of the straw coating on the lawn?
A straw is a layer of an undiscovered organic substance that accumulates between the surface of the soil and an actively growing green vegetation. A straw layer is formed when the organic substance is formed faster than decomposed. Contrary to the widespread opinion, the task of mowing grass on the lawn does not contribute to increasing the straw.
Grass scraping consists of water and easily decomposed fugue, which quickly decomposes and does not accumulate. Long trimming of lawn grass can contain the stem’s wire material, which degrades more slowly but still does not contribute significantly to the formation of thatch on the lawn.
What causes the formation of thatch on the lawn:
- Grass grader with larger grass
- Excessive nitrogen fertilizer
- A rare mowing
- Low soil oxygen levels (detected in sealed or swampy soils)
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How to use mowed grass in the garden?
A layer of mulch material depends on the composition of the soil. On loungers it should be no more than 2 cm, on light soils it can be thicker: for grass 7-10 cm, for other materials 3-6 cm. Fresh or dried mowed herbs can be used as mulch.
Cons: The grass is coded and quick wounds. In the spring, during the warm season, you need to lay a new layer 3-4 times, replacing it with a new layer.
In the spring, the old herb mulch should be replaced with a new layer
The thickness of the layer: freshly chopped grass can be placed 10-15 cm, it settles up to 4-5 cm in a few days.
Use dry mowed grass for mulching. Wet mowed herbs can flush and reduce oxygen and moisture in the soil. With a lack of oxygen, anaerobic decomposition of grass shreds can occur, which leads to the appearance of an unpleasant odor.
Do not use mowing grass as a mulch if the lawn has recently been treated with an herbicide for dandelions or other broad weeds as this can harm your plants. If your lawn has recently been processed, refer to the herbicide label information for issues associated with using mowed grass as a mulch.
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Tips for mulching plants with mown grass
If you use fresh scrap, put a layer only 6mm thick as mulch. This allows the weed to collapse before it smells or rots.
Note . It is necessary to mulch only with dried grass – hay or lay out with a non-cut layer. This works in a different direction. If frost is predicted, plants in the greenhouse can be saved and urgently mulch with mowed grass.
Thicker layers remain too wet and can contribute to the appearance of mold and cause problems with an unpleasant odor.
Grass shreds are dried into a thicker layer for vegetable crops
You can also use mowing grass to level the paths in the garden to hold dirt and prevent weeds from appearing in open dirty areas.
Small grass from late fall to early spring is great for reviving the soil. Mix it with the soil to a depth not less than the bayonet of the shovel to add nitrogen. For a balanced additive to garden soil, add the ratio of two parts of an organic additive that releases carbon for every part of nitrogen. Plant residues that release carbon such as dry leaves, sawdust, hay, or even chopped newspaper nuisance the soil, saturating oxygen with bacteria, preventing excess moisture, and replenishing nitrogen.
Composting of mowed grass
Dry grass section, mixed with twice as much dried leaf litter, results in a compost with a healthy nutrient balance and quickly decomposes thanks to the correct carbon-nitrogen ratio. The correct ratio avoids problems such as smells, mold, slow decomposition and heat storage so that you can use nitroge n-rich grass section.
What to do when mushrooms start growing under a layer of mulch?
In autumn, some summer residents had a kind of toasted fungus in the places where the grass lay. Is this a normal phenomenon, is it necessary to remove these areas with some preparations? Evgeny Sapunov, expert, plant collector, creator of the dragon garden (https://t.me/night_mouse_garden)
The floor is jelly. From a soi l-like point of view, soil is a complex mineral colloid* (a solution in which there are unresolved particles). The simplest example of a colloid is jelly or dough. Many microorganisms live in Bodengallerte: bacteria, fungi, viruses, insects, worms, nematodes and so on. Soil gallerte / Kolloid – like one of birds, animals, insects and water creatures inhabited. The fact that toasting mushrooms appeared shows that conditions for good growth of the myzel were created in the ground, which caused the fruit bodies of the myzel to appear.
Why did you create good conditions for mycelance growth?
- 1. Grass may have created moist conditions (we mulch to keep the floor moist)
- 2. Perhaps because of the grass, the bacterial flora of the soil was suppressed (bacteria and mushrooms are constantly in war)
- 3. The decomposition of the grass gave the myzel food (we lay out the grass in such a way that nutrients get into the ground)
In order to answer the question “Why did hood intensity appear?”
“Is it necessary to repeal these places with some preparations?” Every change in the soil is a strong imbalance of the most complex land community. If, as I said above, we introduce ourselves to the soil as a forest inhabited, then “spilling something” actually means throwing a tactical nuclear charge into this place in the forest. This is how modern chemistry works in shared apartments. Yes. The poisonous mushrooms will die. But to a large extent, the soil also dies. And it is restored for several years, maybe decades in this place.
Question: Do you not like poisonous mushrooms aesthetically? Do you crush plants? Answer: Remove the mushrooms – pick them and dispose of them.
Tip: Treatments should only be carried out if your plants show signs of a disease. These are these plants and these diseases on plants that need to be treated. No need to penetrate the most complex soil connection system!
At a lecture on soil science at the institute, we were told: “Soil science as a science is very young. Mathematics is several thousand years old. Soil science was created 150 years ago. Soil processes take centuries and possibly millennia. How can you understand a process of several hundred years if you watch it for several years? “
Conclusion: We do not pour anything into the ground. We treat certain diseases on a certain plant. For the rest of nature – we observe, admire, enjoy, feel like, think.
*A colloid is a mixture in which a substance made of microscopically distributed insoluble particles in another substance is suspended.
Lawn mulch
Lawn care involves several important components – combing, watering, feeding, trimming, aerating, but mulching should be one of the first places on this list. Long rains, droughts, gusts of wind and other undesirable natural factors experience beautiful green lawns for strength and do not always keep their surface in good condition. In case of violation of its integrity, nutrients from the soil are quickly washed out, the root system of plants weakens, and the herb cover loses its decorative properties. Mulching does not allow negative changes in the appearance of the lawn, as it can:
- controlling the circulation of water in the soil and improving air exchange;
- On hot summer days, reduce the level of evaporation of moisture from the soil.
- The increased thickness of the turf layer becomes more durable and hardy;
- Affect the accelerated growth of young shoots;
- Keep the lawn surface decorative and level it.
- Often increase resistance to various natural changes and weather unwashing.
How and how to mulch the lawn
Most often, lawn mulching is done in two main ways. The easiest way is to leave a sloped and well crested grass on the surface of a green lawn. The thin layer of such grass mulch should be approximately the same thickness as the lawn. It is very important that the mowed grass is carefully shredded, without the remains of large stalks and leaves. If the lawn haircut is done regularly, then there will be no problems with such a mulch coating.
You cannot make a mulching layer thick and dense. With more mowed grass added to lawns for the mulching season, it becomes airborne and can be a source of infection and the spread of fungal diseases. This will be facilitated by boring rains, which will lead to the decay of the grass coating and the infection of young plants with bacteria and fungi. To prevent this, it is recommended to traverse the accumulated layer of mulch about three to four times a year and then comb the lawn with steel rakes. If this is not taken care of, bare patches will appear, which can only be corrected by replacing the old lawn with a new one.
The second method of mulching is carried out in the fall, when the last haircut of the lawn for the season is completed. Such mulching is necessary for the formation of a full and nutrient-poor layer of soil, as well as for preparing the lawn for the winter period.
The composition of the mulch
- Well decomposed peat or rotted manure (you can use stale wood sawn or well crusted wood bark) -a part;
- Coarse-grain river sand – half of a part (on sandy soil) or two parts (on a clay site);
- Garden earth is a part.
One and a half kilograms of the prepared mulch mixture is recommended to be applied to every square meter of the lawn area.
Features of autumn mulching
In order to prepare a high quality mulch mixture, it is necessary to carefully prepare each component before starting mixing. All components are recommended first of all to clean and sift well, and then leave some time to dry, and only after that you can connect all the parts of the required proportions.
The mixture should be applied in a thin layer (no more than 0.5 cm) so that the grass on the lawn stays above the level of the mulch layer. It is imperative to fill in the existing indentations on the site, but there is no need to create tubercles.
During the fall mulching season, it is recommended to aerate the lawn and apply fertilizer. Fertilizers can be added to (most) the mulch mixture and it is advisable to apply the mixture to the site (especially on clay soils) only after prior preparation. The remains of plants must be removed with a rake, and with the help of a garden pitchfork, the soil is pierced throughout the lawn to a depth of about 10-15 cm.
Fall mulching perfectly prepares the lawn for spring and takes a little time and effort.
