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Now is a great time to think about grasscycling your lawn clippings this year. Grasscycling, which is also called mulching, means letting your grass clippings drop onto the lawn when you mow, rather than picking them up with the grass catcher or bagger. These grass clippings can provide your lawn with moisture, as well as nitrogen, which is a food that your lawn needs.If you own a mulching mower, the mower is designed to chop the grass blades into tiny pieces and then drop them onto the mown grass. If you don�t have a mulching mower, you can simply remove the bag attachment from the mower and insert the �chute cover� (a safety device that covers the hole where the bag is normally attached). A regular mower may not chop the grass blades quite as small, so you might have to mow slightly more often. Grasscycling is easier if you trim off no more than the top one-third of your grass on each mowing. If the grass is growing quickly, you may have to mow more than once a week. However, the small clippings will quickly begin to rot before the next mowing. Chopping off more than one third of the grass blade is hard on the plants and leaves behind long clippings that take longer to break down. In addition to providing moisture and nitrogen to your lawn and reducing your use of trash bags, grasscycling will also save time. For more information, call Buncombe County Cooperative Extension at 828-255-5522. (Image provided by Buncombe County.)
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