Posted by Billy NY on August 07, 2016 at 11:34:25 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: Lawns, Growth spirt? posted by Geo-TH,In on August 07, 2016 at 11:02:28:
Sounds like crab grass, and its a bright green color.
Its been so dry and we did have a soaker last weekend, I still have not cut any grass on either lawn since mid June, normally I'll cut 15x a season + or -. Its just greening up a bit now, all of the lawns were brown/tan and the soil dry like baby powder.
I do the same thing, lay the cuttings in a swath, by going the opposite way on each pass, then let it dry until it's like hay you would bale. Sometimes the moisture is up because I'll collect it before the sun bleaches it too much. I use lumber wrappers as a tarp, (Tyvec like material)place the drying grass onto it and turn until dry enough to store. Its feed for the 2 pair of voles I keep as a hobby, and garden mulch. Depending on the weather, I can make a dark olive drab green hay, which seems to have lots of nitrogen for the garden and protein for those tiny little critters, they live on it and prosper.
Lawn sweeper makes it an easy task. Some cuttings I leave to help put something back into the soil. Some years the lawns do grow fast, you have to watch your cutting height because if you cut too low, it leaves a thick layer of cut grass and its over 16 loads with a 22 cu ft sweeper. It's kind of fun actually, because I use all of it somewhere for something.
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