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Article #4299Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment?
From: Tracy Logan
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1989 22:46
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1989 22:46
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The worries about clippings and nitrogen puzzle me. We put the clippings from a lawn (we didn't feed it, it fed us, dandelions) onto a fairly large vegetable garden. Seems like they kept down weeds, disappeared pretty fast. I find it hard to believe those clippings REDUCED the fertility of the garden, but I only ate from it, never tested its soil. If they take nitrogen from the soil to decompose, it would seem the N would then be available. It doesn't go off as NOx, does it, nor as NH4 in those aerobic conditions? My logic was: I disrupted a steady-state situation by eating the chinese-cabbage, so I put the clippings there to replace it. Is that fundamentally false? Tracy Logan uucp : rutgers!lehi3b15!lafcol!logant Academic Computing Services Bitnet : LOGANT@LAFAYETT Lafayette College Internet: logant%lafayett.bitnet@CunyVM.CUNY.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!usc!polyslo!vlsi3b15!lehi3b15!lafcol!logant From: logant@lafcol.UUCP (Tracy Logan) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment? Summary: puzzled by grass-clipping/Nitrogen problem Keywords: lawns fertility Message-ID: <1277@lafcol.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 89 22:46:07 GMT References: <24792@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <20388@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2876@cuuxb.ATT.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: Academic Computing Services, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042 Lines: 19