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Kim wrote:

>>Hi there.  Does anyone know if you can use yard clipping that have been
chipped and shredded as a mulch right away or do you have to compost it
first.  All of the material is disease free and is a nice texture, but
it is still raw material, not broken down or anything yet.<<

Cathleen, Bill & Frank were characteristically right on, and if Moira Ryan
says it, it is so.

I can add my experiences from a large 70's row garden on which I piled prox
2"(+) of fresh grass clippings that I persuaded a landscape service to leave
at the building at which  I worked. This worked fine as soon as I realized
that I had to ask them not to leave clippings from lawns to which they had
applied "Weed'n'Feed" the week before.
I put down the clippings over 3-5 layers of newspaper.

It took most of the summer to lay down 3600 sq ft and I never had weeds
where the mulch was. at this time the grass clippings and some ground rock
phosphate was all I used and it sustained the garden for four plus years
with no other input.

The clippings and newspaper were virtually indistinguishable when roto
tilled in following our terribly wet winters in the WA Cascades foothills
(North Bend, WA.)

Aside from the Weed'n'Feed incident, it was a very productive arrangement


Regards,
DT (aka Dore Tyler)  dee_tee@msn.com
Doing his own thing in the privacy of his own garden.
USDA Zone 8b, Tacoma, WA


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