A question for Dan Gill: I bag my grass clippings when mowing, and I've been piling them up all summer.The pile heats up, and the clippings decompose quickly. Does this make good vegetable compost ...

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A cleaner environment through less waste is the goal of a new state organization, the Indiana Composting Council. The council ...

When making DIY compost, it's recommended to balance green vs. brown materials, and grass clippings are one of the most readily available and effective green materials for composting.

While there's nothing better than that fresh aroma of newly-mown grass, there are some things to consider before you decide to spread these around your garden.

Green materials, such as grass clippings and other prunings, add nitrogen to the compost pile, and nitrogen, a basic element in fertilizers, greatly speeds composting.

Use Grass Clippings as Compost. Instead of collecting and discarding grass clippings, leave them on the lawn every time you mow. Like compost, ...

Why pay to throw away leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps and other household organic waste when you could turn it into superb soil? That’s the idea of composting – improving your lousy ...

This doesn’t mean that you use thirty times more dead leaves than grass clippings. Leaves have a ratio of around 45:1, grass has a ratio of around 19:1, and kitchen scraps are around 15:1. Paper ...

As a practical matter, I've heard gardeners say they've used herbicide-treated grass clippings as both mulch and compost after waiting a month or so.

If you apply a standard weed and feed and remove one-third of the leaf blade with each mowing, you should be safe to compost grass clippings from the fourth cutting after the application ...