Grass question...Bag it or not?

[Irving]

I think you want something with 5% iron right?

[JohnTRourke]

doesn't matter much. Ironite is the local brand, everyone makes/sells something similar. It's not fertilizer, it's just iron and some other minerals.

https://www.pennington.com/all-produ...-by-pennington

oh and make sure you get it off the concrete. it stains. (rust color, imagine that. :-) )

[Mazin]

don't bag it.
Hell i don't even mulch it. I just let it fly (side discharge).

Puts all that nitrogen back into the soil which here is really poor (we have really poor soils overall). Adds to and creates new soil as it decomposes.

I never fertilize, my lawn looks great and grows like crazy. The one thing that really kicks your lawn over the top for looks here in Colorado is Ironite. Our soils are really poor in iron and iron gives it that deep green look

go buy some (anywhere that sells fertilizer has it) and spread it around, once a year or so (usually spring, but whenever) and possess the best looking easiest to maintain lawn around.

Do NOT let any iron stay on concrete and then wash or melt down, learned that the hard way. You'll end up with nice rust spots all over that take a long time to get rid of

[def90]

I mowed grass for a living back in my late teen years.. Mulch it, we never picked it up, in the spring do a deep clean/raking and aeration, the mulch will protect the grass/roots during the colder/dryer winter months. We even mostly just mulched the leaves in the fall unless there was an extreme amount of them. If the grass is really long it's best to cut it once at a higher height and take a second cut a little shorter. Change your mowing directions each time you mow. When it's dryer out cut it at a longer length, it will put less stress on it, it kills me when people cut their grass as if it's a putting green during the heat of the summer then have to water it daily to keep it from dieing.

[Irving]

I heard if you get picked up with bagged grass you can get busted for intent to distribute.

[ray1970]

I used to bag all of the time because the wife made me do it.

Now she’s starting to learn who the boss is and I can get away with doing things my way.

I haven’t bagged the grass for about three years now and the only difference that I can tell is yard work takes less time and I don’t have an entire trash can full of lawn clippings to roll out to the curb every week.

Other than that I don’t see a difference in my lawn either way.

I do like to think my “mulch layer” helps to hold moisture in the soil on those hot days.