5 Ways To Use Grass Clippings In Your Garden
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Don't Throw Away Your Grass Clippings! While your lawn may not be the best use of space, that doesn't mean it has to be a waste of space! There's one by-product of a lawn that has so many uses in the garden, Grass Clippings!
In this video, I'll show you my top 5 ways that I like to use Grass Clippings in my garden to help me grow the best crops, year after year. Don't bag up and throw away that extra grass. Put it to work for you and your garden for less time and effort than it takes to bag it up as waste!
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The five uses are: chop and drop the grass clippings onto the lawn; use the grass clippings as a mulch on potted plants; add the grass clippings to your compost pile; make a compost tea from your grass clippings; and mix your grass clippings and garden soil to jump start new beds.
ty, knew about the 4 but not the final one.
If you have uneven tarraced land you want the grass clippings to mat and form a thick carpet that will slow down decomp so you have time to add more on top to even out your land for free. That is what I am doing.
Thank you. I have a very bumpy lawn.
My lawn, and those of a couple of neighbors, are my primary source for mulch in the garden.
Excellent Russ!
Thank you Jeff, another great lesson.i am still beating myself for all the money I spent on fertilizer last year when I started my first veggie garden. Such a relief to learn from you!!!
I hear you Naomi! Before I knew how soil actually works and what chemicals do and don't do, I wasted to much time and money. No wonder people were turned off of gardening. Now, I find it easer AND cheaper to get better veggies in the process! :-)
Bro you are amazing for creating the video so descriptive and I love your real life experience on it as well can't wait to use them clippings
Thanks for sharing! Be blessed!
I always wondered about putting grass clippings in the bottom of a raised bed. Kinda excited for planning this winter for spring!!! Thanks for the info Jeff!!! Excellent video like always. Never disappointed. 😊
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Thanks Brandy! It really does work. The layering not only saves a ton of $$ of initial investment, it really does jump start your new garden bed right away. Enjoy the weekend!
Such great advice - thanks so much ❤❤❤
Love all your videos! So practical and informative 👌 👏 👍
Appreciate that Sudha! Enjoy the weekend!
I don’t have a lawn but my neighbor bags his clippings & brings them to me. I have great neighbors 💖👵🏻👩🌾❣️
My neighbor across the street is nice enough to blow his clippings over to my side. I’m glad we’re both so blessed.
I m so happy I found your channel
Jeff, you’re lucky! You got lots of helpers in your video. Great info, again.
Ha ha sometimes its all hands on deck Jim! :-)
Amazing content as usual! Thank you!
Thanks Holly! Very kind of you to say!
Is free, and simple to use, always available and is organic!! . Thanks for your advise I will use leave the grass in the bucket method
Excellent video. Thank you!
Cheers, thanks for watching!
You always have so many great tips, I don't have my own backyard yet haha but in the near future I hope I will and your channel is always so helpful 😊
Thanks GGT! Appreciate the kind words!
Greetings from Ohio, Love all your teaching Sir
Thanks again John, always appreciated!
As always, thank you!
Cheers Charmaine, thanks for watching! :-)
Thank you!
I have a small grass area but I use it along with collecting my neighbors and layer into my compost to accelerate. Also use to mulch. Will need to try the tea trick!
It really is a great free booster for your crops! :-)
Great information as always 👍🏾 👌🏾 👏🏾 (NEW JERSEY)
Thanks! Appreciate the words!
I will make some grass fertilizer this spring while we have green grass it is usually brown by July. Thanks for the information Jeff
Same here...and I refuse to water my lawn too, LOL!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms At the price we pay for water in this town I can't afford to water the garden and the lawn so the garden grows and the lawn dies lol
@@Bev437Sqn Yup.....garden is priority #1!
I bought a bagger mower this year and have been using the heck outta the clippings.
Those vegetable are so healthy looking.
Thanks Daisy!
grass clippings are my favorite mulch for the veggies for sure! The rest goes in the compost, usually.
Hey, saw the weather has been insane out in western Canada. You doing ok?
And oh, no! @6:20.... you've resorted to using babies to fill your new beds!!! Monster! LOL
Same here Dave! Yeah, so crazy...."atmospheric river" they called it. I have NEVER seen rain like that in all my years. We live in a highland/bedrock area, so we're all good...but people panic buying gas and groceries making it worse, sigh.
nice job with this video
Great videos. Thank you. Question. Following todays learning about using as a liquid fertiliser, I also have an abundance of comfrey tea; use blood, fish and bone, growmore and alfalfa pellets. I would love your advice on frequency of use for these four fertilisers. Keep up the great work. Your “shorts” are also such great learnings! Paul Bish from UK
great info
Cheers Heather, thanks!
How cool! I was starting to get worried about fertilizer shortages. Not anymore! 😁
For sure Tanya!
There's never a shortage of all natural fertilizers...
I am trying my hand at lawn clipping tea for the first time this year.
When you are making grass clipping tea, it’s helpful if you inoculate it with either a couple handfuls of leaf mold or compost. It really gets the micro organisms activated. This is also called Jadam liquid fertilizer
Perfect, I'll try that!
Nice!!!
Thanks Melanie! :-)
Great grass ideas…I tried freshly mowed grass on my raised bed. It’s working but it needs more. Love putting my own organic grass on everything…watch out for any weed seeds that are forming in the grass before mowing…better to dump that batch into your mulch bin!
nice
TYVM
Cheers Annette, thanks for watching. :-)
Quick question, I usually scalp my dead clippings as the lawn growing season starts. Can you explain how you would use these differently than the green clippings you’re referring to?
Love your videos on grass clippings ☺️ but what about dandelion and other weeds will they over take garden if you put on ? Thankyou for your time 😊rised gardener
I over-seeded my lawn with white clover. It doesn’t require water and stays green all year. The bunnies love it and leave other plants in my yard and garden alone. I use the grass and clover cuttings in my garden and flower beds.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! #5ideas #grassclippings
Thanks Terri! Glad you liked, have a great weekend!!
I always put mine back on! I thought why take out all that nutrients?
I had patches of poor topsoil, it was thin sand. The clippings helped build it up. Lawn has never looked better.
Yup, good for the lawns too, why not!
Great video.
Does the compost tea have a shelf life?
I knew it!!!!!!!!!!! after 6 years i noticed my topsoil of the grass keeps overgrowing my sidewalks....and just wondered how the hell this is happening. got tired of weed wacking the edge overgrowth so I started using the bag on my mower to slow it down, been dumping it by the trees in the back but this also creates other problems, as mice like getting in there...glad to know there are other ways to use the clippings.
Yeah, even just as a mulch is fantastic!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yeah I'm going to try and use that tip somehow, a garden is good to have. Been a long time since I tried. My neighbors have gardens so I bet I can sell them my 'mulch/fertilizer" lol for a fair price or favor of course. Right now I'm using it to fill in pot-holes of the lawn from an old walnut tree. (we'll see how it works out next year..?)
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤awesome 👌
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Go Riders!
You got that right! :-)
Just watched to learn, I'm an apartment dweller in the city. Maybe I will be blessed with a home some day.😅
I'M DOING THIS TODAY, LIQUID FERTILIZER IS BOSS HOGG!!!
Totally agree ng!
WILL A LARGE PLASTIC GARBAGE CAN BE ENOUGH?
awesome as usual. I am going to grow dill for 2022 which type do you like to grow?? Thanks
Right on! Indoors I'm growing Bouquet, outdoors its Mammoth! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks
Hi Jeff, my lawn has a good amount of flowering weeds (as I don’t cut it every week ) and besides moss, because it’s shady near my conifers. Can I use the grass cut together with the moss or will it grow nicely Dwight my vegetables next year?
My lawn too Arnd...I just mow and use it, haven't had any problems. :-)
I mulch my grass clippings back into the lawn. I often mow twice a week.
Easy peasy right? Free nutrients back to the lawn AND less work in the process!
Wonderful video, thankyou Jeff. After mulching pots with flowerp,ants in them, do you water the mulch, or let it sit for a few days?
Hey Kerry, thanks! Just water on your normal schedule.. If your plants are to be watered that day, perfect, if not, no problem!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thankyou. Understand no special water of mulch needed. I thought the plant water schedule would change, as mulch keeps the soil moist-er than when unmulched. Am I mudfuddled?
All I'm thinking about right now is the grass seeds in my raised beds.
The one worry I have with grass clipping mulch... dandelions!
Will the green clippings heat up or burn plants?
If grass has seeds, is it still ok to use to fill up container?
My concern is with the weed and feed I apply to the lawn. It's required to use a weed killer in our neighborhood. (I know--long past time to move.) So, the best I can do is mulch it back into the lawn which is exactly what I do. I'd love to be able to use the clippings on my garden beds, though. Is there affordable organic weed and feeds that won't hurt my vegetable beds?
There definitely are weed and feeds..you may need two separate products. But for sure play it safe for now and just use the chop-and-drop method.
To me, keeping a well manicured lawn just because it looks nice is a waste of time, effort, and resources...
I now use my lawn to both directly and indirectly feed me.
I haven't quite figured out the balance of growing space vs grass for compost/mulch yet though.
Exactly.
Will grass clippings help with weeds in the garden.
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I used grass clippings for several months this year as mulch in my beds and containers, and in my compost pile. I took leftover clippings to my local community garden every couple weeks and they were put to good use! Unexpectedly at the end of August, my landlord had the front and backyard treated with chemicals to stop crabgrass/weeds. 🥺 I wish I was kidding, but I was so heartbroken. Especially since the lawns looked great despite 100°F-118°F temps for 2 months (thanks to the mulching option on the mower). We even had mushrooms in the back yard. I tried to hide my disappointment, but didn’t do a very good job. She felt bad and said she wouldn’t have it treated again.
I’m wondering if it’s safe to start using again? Has enough time has passed to where I can start putting clippings in my compost again?
labels say 3 mows then use in compost again
@@alexhitsdrums Thank you.
Is it okay to use any kind of grass?
What about seeds and weeds in the clippings?
Hey Nicholas, I've never had a problem with it, as I layer on the mulch all year, constantly smothering any upstarts. If you're worried, just make sure not to mow when things are flowering/going to seed. :-)
Ferment the grass clippings with sugar. 2 inch layer clippings 2 inch layer sugar all the way to the top. Put a double carton with a stone on top a
Put it in a dry dark place for 2 weeks. The clippings go to the compost pile and the liquid goes in your garden 500 cups of water to 1 cup of the liquid. This stuff will not smell bad.
Does Double carton=cardboard?
@@my_flippin_journey I don't understand the question.
I don’t have compost container. This year I throw vegetable and fruit wastes all over the garden. Not very sightly, but I hope they fertilize my soil.
They will, just be careful about attracting critters! :-)
Hi Jeff, I use grass clippings in my raised berry beds until the clipping had so many seeds in it that the grass took over my beds and choked out my berries. P.S. didn’t realize that it was crab grass. Bummer
Oh no! I've been lucky to avoid that, but can definitely see that being an issue!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms you’re right, now I’m going to have to take it all out. No more clipping for me.
Wait,how did seeds get into your grass clippings??
How does that grass fertilizer smell? In my experience the smell is enough to make you loose your lunch.
I’m just burying mine in the ground. Fresh cut/ dig hole/ bury and cover back over with dirt. Like a cover crop. Its an experiment
Cool! Let us know how it goes!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarmshope i remember too. Itll be a few weeks till it breaks down i imagine
@@Matty_76 what zone are you growing in?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarmszone 9b mate. Australia
25% strength. 1:4
As a seasoned Gardner my experience has been, meh. I used dried grass clippings around the tree and it turned into a moldy pile of yuck. And....i have been told , green clippings pull out nitrogen but dried dont. Whats the truth?
The key is not to pile it on thick and heavy. It'll turn anaerobic and give you the mold you saw...
I might just cut the grass tommarow
Atta boy john! :-)
I have a problem that I can’t figure out how to solve so i’m hoping for some ideas if anyone can chime in. I currently live in the Azores there isn’t much brown here. There infinitive of green here so I’m constantly battling the smelly stuff when trying to compost even in the fall and winter it’s all lush green. To add to that it doesn’t get over 75 degrees. When we lived in the States never had this issue. So anyone out here can help me solve this dilemma I would be grateful.
Just look up browns used to make compost.
DON LEVE THE CLIBBINS IN THE RODE. HADDA LAYER DOWN
1 to 4 is 25% dude. _Not 20%_ (but I'll bet I'm not the first person to tell you that!)
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It actually is. Ratios mean 1 part to 4 parts so 5 parts in total and 100 ÷ 5 is 20
1/4 is 25% yes but ratios are different
Grass get rid of those small insects flying from indoor plants. It also fertilize the plants. I have a plant that it was the same way for years, !!!! and it did not grow I changed position, more soil, report it NOTHING!!! until I put grass as mulch , the plant grew over night, more leaves big leaves and dark green in the same way for indoor plants.
Preach it!
I love you and your content. But MY LORD! GET TO THE POINT A LITTLE BIR FASTER COULD YA. VERY SLOW PACED TILL HE GETS TO THE PERTINENT INFORMATION.
Just appreciate the video and knowledge and maybe fast forward the parts you don’t want to hear and lastly try not being such an a-hole to other people