Mulching for the yard involves organized recycling of grass
clippings to improve the health of your turf. Lawn mulching involves the
double-cutting of grass, mowing then re-cutting within the deck to create much
smaller grass cuttings which are then deposited into the lawn. Once in the yard
they will break down fats and help to fertilize the yard.
You can either do it yourself or can hire mulch lawn care Simpsonville services
for the best results. Services offered by Curb Appeal Lawn Care in Simpsonville
include mowing, weedeating, edging and blowing; hedge trimming; mulch and pine
needles; aerating and seeding; landscaping and more.
Importance
of Mulching:
1. The process
of mulching can be extremely beneficial, it offers extra nutrients for the turf
and creates a more beautiful and healthier looking yard. It’s also a great
method of recycling mowing waste.
2. If you are
a believer of organic gardening, mulching is a great way of using natural
resources to improve the well-being of your yard, they harvest the benefits of
the nitrogen they produce instead of wasting them.
3. Mulching is
a part of a bio or ecologically sound approach to gardening and to caring for
the yard. This has increased its popularity among people with more and more
people considering mulching.
Equipment- Equipment
required includes a mulching mower or a mower that includes mulching as one of
its features. The process of mulching requires a specially shaped blade and a
special deck design (in dedicated mulchers) to help keep the clippings moving around
the blade. This is the reason why dedicated mulching decks are often rounded
and sealed, generally higher with more room allowing space for the clippings to
move around and sometimes they have deflectors to direct the clippings. The
decks and blades of the dedicated mulching lawn mowers are designed in a way so
that the decks create the perfect airflow and the right shaped blade to
re-cut the clippings and push them down rather than throwing them back or
sideways and out.
Mulching can also be done without using a dedicated mulch
mower, there are availability of lawn mowers that offer mulching as well as
collection. A kit is usually required either with the mower or as an optional
extra. Both a dedicated mulching mower and a combi mower with mulching facility
will give good results. There are many shapes and sizes that mulching mowers
come in with there being push, self-propelled and mulching ride on mowers and
lawn tractors.
Contents in
a Mulching Kit- The contents include a mulching blade, a mulch plug to
prevent the clippings from being expelled through the grass exit channel and
sometimes a deflector or deflectors that help direct the clippings in the deck
so they can be re-cut before being deposited into the yard. The main difference
between a mulching blade from a conventional cutting blade is that in the
former the tip is angled to create the vacuum that forces the grass cuttings
downwards.
When it comes to the frequency that you should mulch, you
should probably mow once a week (leave 7 days between) during the cutting
season. No more than this as you obviously don’t want to over cut or damage the
grass and any longer the grass will start to grow too tall for the volume of
clippings.
When it comes to watering the yard, do it after you cut, not
before as it is easier to cut and spread dry clippings in the lawn than wet
ones which is also the reason why it is advisable to mulch cut your lawn on dry
days and after the morning dew has dissipated.
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