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Originally Posted by kjc  Seriously though, I've been told if you mow one direction one week, the next week mow in the opposite direction, and don't mow too short about 3 inches is more healthy for the lawn. And only mow when the lawn is dry, not wet from rain or dew.
I have a compost pile for lawn clippings and leaves, alternate layers and stir it once or twice a week and it turns back into dirt you can use in flowerbeds. Once you get a healthy compost pile going, don't empty it completely, save a bucketful full of old compost to innoculate the new additions. To start one, get a bucketful of compost from a neighbor with a healthy pile. 
If you add worms, the worm poo is like growth hormones for plants, and you can start a worm farm and sell them to fishermen/women! |
Oh my. I'd have to go over and give them CPR if I did that!
In my old house - I had started a 'lasagne garden' where you layer grass clippings, coffee grounds; newspaper; any kind of paper; fruit skins; (no meat); etc. and let it 'sit' over the winter. You keep adding to it all winter long - your discarded paper; shreddings and so on and so forth and keep it moist. Snow helps.
In the spring ~ you have a wonderful 'dirt' to plant in and full of earthworms.
Doesn't look so HOT over the winter though! Ha! My neighbors here would have a fit. I had a six foot privacy fence back home.
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PS: I JUST paid a guy to come and hang my son's sign over my driveway. If you letter in a sport - your kid can hang little sign on the house with the name of his school on a plaque and HIS name hanging down below - with the type of sport. It goes over your garage and I'm so proud of him and now my neighbors can be proud of him too!
