Cut It & Leave It

“Cut It & Leave it”

What is Cut it & Leave it?

Cut it and leave it is the natural way you can have a green, healthy lawn while spending less time and money!

Sounds too good to be true? Well try it; you just might like what you see.

Wouldn’t you rather be sipping an ice cold lemonade in the shade, rather than spending time and energy buying plastic bags and throwing the grass clippings into them and then dragging them to the curb? A lawn that is 5,000 square feet generates 75 pounds of grass clippings per mowing.

Have you ever seen a golf course bagging their grass clippings?

It works like this:

CUT the top 1/3 of the grass blade and LEAVE the clippings right on the lawn.

Mow when the grass is dry to avoid tracking and clumping.

Keep your mower blade sharp.

No special equipment is necessary. Mulching blades are available for most machines, but a regular blade will do just as well.

When “Cut it & Leave it” is properly done, clippings settle quickly between the growing blades of grass where they shelter the roots from the sun, and conserve moisture. As they break down, they release more moisture as well as nutrients into the soil. This means that grass needs to be watered less frequently. Believe it or not, clippings left on the lawn supply one-third or more of the nitrogen needed to keep your grass green and healthy.

Thatch is an accumulation of dead roots, stems and rhizomes which are parts of the plant that decompose slowly. Clippings, which are 95% water, are leaves of grass plant and decompose too quickly to contribute to thatch.