From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Pavel314 wrote:   
   > We finally got a break in the rain for a few days so I mowed the lawn. I   
   raked up the clippings and filled the lawn tractor trailer, about 24 cubic   
   feet; I had to tamp down the clippings a few times to fit it all in.   
   >   
   > My wife uses the clippings as mulch on her vegetable and flower gardens. She   
   says that after a rain or two, the clippings all mat down and keep the weeds   
   from taking over.   
      
     sure, almost any organic material can be used as a mulch   
   which eventually gets broken down and turned into humus.   
   the longer term issue is the number of weed seeds that   
   the mulch introduces into a garden space and how easy it   
   is to control the weeds if they manage to sprout and grow.   
      
     we have enough issues with weeds as it is, i sure don't   
   need to spread certain ones of those any further especially   
   when i spend time trying to eliminate or reducing them.   
   an uncleaned mower can spread things far and wide...   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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