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   On 5/18/2019 1:27 PM, Pavel314 wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   Numerous mushroom houses around here and mushroom soil is cheap and a   
   good soil amendment.  It is the compost that comes out of a mushroom   
   house after the fungi have depleted it.  Nice stuff but full of residual   
   weed seeds.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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