From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 10:12:05 AM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:   
   > On 5/18/2019 7:49 AM, 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.   
   > >   
   > > Paul   
   >    
   >    Unless the grasses have gone to seed ... in which case you just    
   > planted it in the richest soil around . Ya know , it always gets me that    
   > people go to great lengths to make the soil rich so their garden does    
   > well - then wonder why the weeds do well too ! I use straw as a mulch ,    
   > it also mats down . But any seeds in the straw are annuals rather than    
   > perennial grasses .   
   >    
   > --    
   >   Snag   
   > Yes , I'm old   
   > and crochety - and armed .   
   > Get outta my woods !   
      
   My wife thought that was a great comment about people enriching the soil and   
   wondering why the weeds grow there.   
      
   Paul   
      
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