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Interesting tidbit about leaving grass clippings

rutgers1
16 years ago

I just read this on organicgardening.com:

Leaving grass clippings on the lawn is the best and most effortless thing you can do to grow a thicker, healthier lawn. William Dest, Ph.D., associate professor emeritus of turfgrass studies at the University of Connecticut, compared lawns where the clippings had been left behind with lawns where they had been removed. He found that the lawns with the clippings had:

# 45 percent less crabgrass

# Up to 66 percent less disease

# Up to 45 percent more earthworms

# 60 percent more water reaching plant roots

# 25 percent greater root mass (which means less room for weeds and more drought tolerance for grass)

# 50 percent reduced need for nitrogen fertilizer

Here is the direct link:

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-4-77-368,00.html

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