Mulching Grass and Leaves: Feed Your Lawn, Top Dress Your Garden
It's not hard to tell from the road which lawns are well-maintained, but those pristine lawns and flower beds come at a price, be it time, money or both.
Constantly buying and spreading mulch and nutrients across your growth can be a significant drain on funds and free time but there are easy ways to save on both with a mulching deck on Walker zero turn mowers.
Much of the nutrients and top dressing needed to complete your garden can come from your garden itself, if you have the right equipment.
Mulching Grass Decks Make Food From Waste It happens every year.
Lawn fertilizer must be bought, collected, spread and watered in before your soil has what it needs to compete against the elements.
That plant food doesn't all have to come from an outside source.
Grass, as with all green plants, needs nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in order to flourish.
Each blade of grass that gets cut down is in fact a minute deposit of those elements, already collected into one place.
Each time you remove your clippings you effectively remove nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus from your yard.
No wonder we have to refresh our lawns with fertilizer every year.
You can put that collected energy back into your soil simply by mulching grass clippings as finely as possible and spreading them liberally across your lawn.
Note: Make sure your lawn (soil and grass) can consume your clippings at speed.
Adding the right amount of mulched clippings can help your lawns overall health but too much mulching can contribute to thatch, which will require dethatching if it accumulates excessively.
Try and work in a few other dead plants when mulching grass.
Top Dress Your Garden Beds With Mulched Leaves Beyond the much-needed nutrients for our growing grass we tend to truck in outside top dressing and mulch to spread across our garden beds.
This top spreading technique allows nutrients to leech into the soil, keeps moisture from escaping to quickly while providing that finished landscaped look.
We can create some of that top dressing mulch ourselves using things like leaves, grass clippings and some types of weeds, saving time and money in the process.
Once we have a good amount of garden waste (leaves, grass, etc) built up the tendency is to bag it up and cart it away.
All that organic matter can be dried in the sun and mulched to create excellent top dressing for your garden beds.
With enough collection and forethought there won't be much need, if any, for outside mulch.
The possibilities are endless when your backed by a Walker zero turn mower complete with mulching grass deck.
Take a look at our website for more information of see it in action first hand on your own lawn with a Walker Demo, free of charge and direct to the consumer.
Constantly buying and spreading mulch and nutrients across your growth can be a significant drain on funds and free time but there are easy ways to save on both with a mulching deck on Walker zero turn mowers.
Much of the nutrients and top dressing needed to complete your garden can come from your garden itself, if you have the right equipment.
Mulching Grass Decks Make Food From Waste It happens every year.
Lawn fertilizer must be bought, collected, spread and watered in before your soil has what it needs to compete against the elements.
That plant food doesn't all have to come from an outside source.
Grass, as with all green plants, needs nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in order to flourish.
Each blade of grass that gets cut down is in fact a minute deposit of those elements, already collected into one place.
Each time you remove your clippings you effectively remove nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus from your yard.
No wonder we have to refresh our lawns with fertilizer every year.
You can put that collected energy back into your soil simply by mulching grass clippings as finely as possible and spreading them liberally across your lawn.
Note: Make sure your lawn (soil and grass) can consume your clippings at speed.
Adding the right amount of mulched clippings can help your lawns overall health but too much mulching can contribute to thatch, which will require dethatching if it accumulates excessively.
Try and work in a few other dead plants when mulching grass.
Top Dress Your Garden Beds With Mulched Leaves Beyond the much-needed nutrients for our growing grass we tend to truck in outside top dressing and mulch to spread across our garden beds.
This top spreading technique allows nutrients to leech into the soil, keeps moisture from escaping to quickly while providing that finished landscaped look.
We can create some of that top dressing mulch ourselves using things like leaves, grass clippings and some types of weeds, saving time and money in the process.
Once we have a good amount of garden waste (leaves, grass, etc) built up the tendency is to bag it up and cart it away.
All that organic matter can be dried in the sun and mulched to create excellent top dressing for your garden beds.
With enough collection and forethought there won't be much need, if any, for outside mulch.
The possibilities are endless when your backed by a Walker zero turn mower complete with mulching grass deck.
Take a look at our website for more information of see it in action first hand on your own lawn with a Walker Demo, free of charge and direct to the consumer.
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