You Will Never Throw Away Grass Clippings After Watching This

Grass clippings aren’t going away if you have a lawn.
There is so much more you can do with grass-clippings than just throwing them in the garbage. Here are some ideas for you to try in your garden to put that grass to some good-use.

1.Add to Compost
Grass-clippings are a great source of nitrogen and break-down quickly.
A proper compost-pile requires a mix of green and brown materials. Freshly cut-grass is considered ‘green’, and so will need to be balanced out by the addition of some brown-material, like dry-leaves, branches, twigs or paper. When adding fresh grass-clippings, make sure to turn the grass into the pile to enhance aeration and prevent compaction.
Microbes will break the pile down quickly and you will have a rich-pile to spread in a short amount of time.

2.Lawn-Clipping-Tea
Liquid organic fertilizers are seemingly more popular year on year in the store, but you can make your own liquid plant feed at home. To brew a lawn-clipping tea, place your freshly cut-grass in a bucket of water and allow to steep. Beneficial nutrients like potassium, nitrogen, phosphorous, chlorophyll and amino-acids will leech from the grass into the water. After 4-days or so, strain off the liquid and use it to feed your plants by pouring onto the roots or spraying on the leaves.

3.Leave-Them-on-the-Lawn
If you’re striving for a perfect-lawn, you probably remove your grass clippings every time you mow. But you’re actually robbing the grass of certain nutrients that it needs to thrive.
In future, leave your short clippings lie, as they will break-down quickly, nourishing the grass and turning it a perfect shade of green. In fact, grass-clippings can add back-up to 25 % of the nutrients that growth removes from soil! These clippings also encourage beneficial microorganisms and earthworms that digest this grass and maintain healthy-soil.

4.Container-Mulch
Moisture is always an issue when it comes to Container-Gardening. Containers need a lot of Watering. Add a thick-layer of grass clippings on top of your potting-soil to hold in extra moisture. Grass-clippings either fresh or dried, make an excellent organic mulch which contains high amounts of nitrogen, something all plants need to grow and flourish.

5.Livestock-Feed
If your grass is cut with an electric or hand-push mower, you could use the cut grass to supplement diets of herbivores. I have fond memories of grabbing handfuls to feed the guinea-pig and rabbit as a child and how excited they would get. You would not want to use wet-clippings since they spoil quickly and can make animals sick.

And 6. Layer-in-a-Raised-Bed
If you are building a raised-bed or a hugelkultur bed, you can use a thick layer of grass-clippings to provide nutrients and build-up the bed which will use less compost to make up the volume.  The added bonus is that the grass-clippings help to break-down the carbon rich fibrous material in a raised-bed.
These were my 6-uses of grass-clippings.
If you’ve got any other uses of grass-clippings, please share them in the comments below.

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[truthofficer]

I have always left my clippings on the lawn under the impression that I was helping my grass grow better, and birds seemed to prefer to "feed" in my freshly cut lawn over neighbors who would pick up their clippings. I am happy to know that my reason for being too lazy to pick up grass clippings was legitimate.

[matthewbigliardi]

I bought a house and the previous owner piled her grass clippings. It was in one spot for years. I removed it and composted all of them. This spring I returned to that spot. It was bare. Looking at it I realized that that soil was rick and black. It is literally 3 feet think of pure worm castings. Those worms lived under that grass pile for years leaving their castings. Black gold!

[rawsiebee]

I had bare patches on my lawn and after seeding, used cut grass to cover the area (spread lightly) and grass started growing back quickly.

[SPEXWISE]

As a balding man I find grass clippings make for an excellent hair substitute.

[mycozygardencottage]

I 've been using grass clippings in my vegetable garden and it really seems to be helping to condition and improve the soil. If you put them on thick enough it really helps reduce weeds...even grass seed from the clippings.

[veronicabe]

hi, and thank you for the new reference. I just now used grass clippings in my bucket yesterday before seeing this video. My always worries is that grass clippings may have grass and weed seeds that will soon germinate in my pots and grow beds, something that I highly concern over the years, but after watching this guy said, "put grass or unedible weeds to feed your compost, worms needs greens, and I agree. They also needs manure, something I hesitate to use, but it leaves the compost smelling better than sour stuff I used to smell, and it also brings in earthworms. I also have mushroom cultures that had gone green or bad. so bec of this, mycellium are growing all over the coffee ground and decomposted quickly. Not only that, other mycellium and wild mushroom also pop ups. My grasses will decomp quickly too. And the autum leaves and newspaper had a hard and long time to decompose, had runned mycelium and is good to plant new plant whether in pots or in the ground. thanks for all your wonderful tips like vinegar, but i think that vinegar kills weeds and maybe plants too, so i'm afraid to use it. but i use it washing lettuces.

[GeoffBlackmore]

Also, a pile of moist grass clippings will get very hot inside, and become a useful heat source. If you put the pile inside a greenhouse it will warm the building throughout the night. You can even bake potatoes in a grass clippings pile, by wrapping them in tin foil and leaving in the middle of the pile for a few hours.

[jeanforsland]

Do not use grass clippings in the bottom of plant pots. They block the drainage of water out the bottom, which is why a hole or holes are there. They mat down like felt and prevent water drainage.

[MYNICEEV]

Thank you for a great channel and great informative content. Throughout your videos I have learned so much more about my garden. Thank you. You would have thought at 67 yars old I would know it all. But I can never stop learning and gaining knowledge. The best education comes from the school of life. With mother nature as the headmistress. Thank you again and keep repeating yourself. It is the only way to share your information with new children and adults that come onto YouTube on a daily basis. Have an amazing day.

[IrishLawless]

After watching this video I can honestly say I've never thrown grass away since.

[nelliesfarm]

I made that tea with wild blackberry leaves and stinging nettle... poured it on my plants like tomatoes...they loved it

[npecom]

I've used grass clippings for years and these are all good methods. One observation to add; partly composted grass clippings make very rich liquid fertilizer which won't burn plants since the nutrients, once dissolved in water, are, by definition, all soluble. The leaching process is done by placing actively composting grass clippings (finished with first heat but only partly decomposed) into a metal screen mesh trash container. I have bought 3 or 4 of these at Walmart (office supplies) for less than $10 each and they are just the right size to fit into a 5 gallon bucket. The trash/strainer full of clippings/compost goes into said bucket and is topped off with water, then removed and placed in a half drum (or any large container that will hold water). Rinse and repeat until half drum is full. One can extract a huge amount of liquid concentrate from a surprisingly small amount of clippings with this technique and plants just love it. Once the clippings stop yielding rich black liquid they can be put back to compost more or simply used as mulch.

[jeffmoore]

I've always poured the clippings on the base of trees in the area... Always had healthy trees and soil (it's what Grandpappy always did). When I bought the place, I've had now for many years, there were several trees that were dying. Put off cutting them down for the next year... Good thing because they produced new greenery the next year and continued to improve each year since. Now you would never know :)

[waynetadlock]

This year I let my grass grow extra tall and baled it. Used a hand made unit and bales were about 12x6x7 inches. I conditioned them as if for a "straw bale garden" and grew cantaloupe in them. Absolutely amazing. P.S. After two cuttings, (and fourteen bales), Subsequent cuttings were kept clipped short to decompose in the yard. Laugh if your want, it worked!

[robertdryden]

Grass clippings . . . what's that ? Here at 7000 feet in the high desert of northern New Mexico, i'd LOVE to see some green clippings of any kind.

[JollyFlys]

I put them around my trees around the base to keep moist and promote beneficial bacteria around base. It helps with keeping water around the roots and fertilize with grass tea every time I water the tree. I live in the desert so this helps me a lot for no cost at all pretty much.

[robertomahony]

I use freshly cut grass clippings in my polytunnel to make a hotbed for my potatoes did you ever notice when you mow your lawn after a few hours the grass clippings hot up so I just make a furrow fill with freshly cut grass clippings stamp it down to create heat sow potatoes on top and add more grass clippings then just cover with soil I've had great success with this method of growing potatoes indoors also outdoors in raised beds

[deborahsbackwoodsstudio]

I've raked my by hand for years used it in the flower garden to mulch and stop weed growth. Now I have this beautiful overflowing garden that the earthworms love. I have not weeded it this year due to heath issues and have very weeds. Because our yard is so large we have over close to 40 trees, I put grass clippings around the base of the trees, it's helped kill weeds around their base, so that we don't mow to close and skin the bark. Work smarter not harder.

[nathanielkerenweaver]

All of these are for when grass cuttings is already dry: nesting material for chickens, a layer in the bottom of plant pots which have too big of holes to keep soil from falling out, substrate in a brooder, nesting material for bumble bee boxes, fill bags half full so the kids can have outdoor "pillow" fights, packing material in boxes for fresh fruit, or apply thickly under fruit trees so any fruit that falls isn't damaged, protect shallow seedlings or new transplants from drying out, bury a weed patch to kill it and kickstart a newcompost pile, hide the body of your neighbour's cat that keeps pooping on your front porch, scrub mud/ grime off garden equipment, burn it and add ash back in if your soil is too acidic, cover fall crops with it at night to protect them from freezing,

[nopretribrapture]

i put them over my weeds near fence .it stiffles them so they weaken and grow less..i don't use weed killers..grass makes a good compost and fertilizer. .