Cutting grass vrs. mulching

[Keef]

Ok, if you have small property, you can bag the grass. But once you get a larger piece of land, do you guys usually cut the grass out of the discharge area or do you mulch? I was told mulching is better for the grass, but some have said by cutting the grass and discharging it, it helps the grass not to burn. What are your thoughts on this topic?

[Egon]

Mulching would be best. But it may depend on how thick, tall and heavy the grass is.

I do use a mulching mower on my town hand sized lawn.

[Nuru]

I mow a little over an acre and I don't mulch, still occassionally get burns, but that is more due to cutting shorter than I should.

[gary_dsc]

I've been mulching for about 10 years now, first with a 445 and now with a 2305. I try to cut it often enough so that I don't cut more than a third of the grass height, but haven't always managed to do that. I've found that with mulching, I don't see the widrows that I used to get and if I let the grass get too high, i just mow overlapping the previous row to get rid of any grass clumps. In the fall, mulching makes getting rid of the leaves so easy. My dealer recommended that I wait and install the mulching kit in August, but I have found that having it installed all the time has been the best way to go. It does a good job mulching the grass as well as the leaves.

[jdbower]

I bag and compost with about 2 ares of mowing I need to do. Best part is I have a big chunk of fresh, high nutrient dirt after a two year wait (compost pile gets created during the first year, moved and turned the following spring, used the following spring/summer).

[Charlesaf3]

Grass clippings are great fertilizer, so I mulch them back on the lawn. If I needed the compost heap more, I'd put them in the compost

[jdbower]

Originally Posted by Charlesaf3

Grass clippings are great fertilizer...

So each blade of grass can dine on the rotting, dismembered corpses of his friends and family as well as his own body parts? You guys are sick!