Imagine a residential house with some grass, bushes/hedges, plants, etc.
About 2-4 times a month, the yard needs to be mowed, pruned, trimmed, etc. and all these yard trimming waste are put in a green bin to be collected by the trash company weekly.
Why can’t you just scatter the yard trimming throughout your landscape and letting it decompose? Cause eventually it’ll become nutrients for your plants, so I consider it a win-win (nutrients for your plants, and no need for trash truck to go around weekly).
The only scenario I can think of are:
1. The yard trimmings might decompose slower than the plants/grass growing rate. So eventually there’ll be an overabundance of yard trimmings.
2. Wind – some areas may be windy where it’ll blow the yard trimmings to neighboring properties.
Would it be bad/harmful practice to start leaving yard trimmings throughout your yard?
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I’ve used a mulching mower for years. I would grind up the fall leaves too. Currently I weed whip my yard and leave the waste to compost on its own. I never understood why so many people throw away the grass then buy fertilizer to feed the grass. It’s such a waste of money and time.
The trash company is (generally) taking the compostable material. It’s composted and used either used for layering a landfill or sold/used for other municiple projects that need soil.
Home owners who want their compostable waste can and do keep it, those that don’t have space or need for it are giving it to someone who does have use for it.
Some of us do leave the mulched grass clippings and leaves on our yards year round. My lawn may not look as nice as the green carpet some of the neighbors have, but look at which lawn attracts more animals and birds.
We don’t get garden waste collection where I live. We compost most of ours. It’s like what you suggest, but with more steps
Everyone I know mulches the grass/leaves, and composts the rest. Sticks and logged are cut for firewood. If we have a large amount in a short time that we can’t deal with, we bring them to the local yard waste site to be composted or shredded into mulch.
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