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Article #4300Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment?
From: Ray Baxter
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 04:41
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 04:41
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In article <1277@lafcol.UUCP>, logant@lafcol (Tracy Logan) writes: >The worries about clippings and nitrogen puzzle me. Don't be puzzled. These claims are simply wrong. There is no way that returning grass clippings to your lawn will reduce the availible soil nitrogen, as compared to say bagging the grass and carting it off. The original poster seemed to believe that because only legumes (such as clover) fixed nitrogen from atmospheric N2, the nitrogen present in non-legumes was not returned to the soil. While it is true that only legumes can cause a net increase in soil nitrogen, there will be more nitrogen in soils where the grass clipping are returned.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!polya!Polya.Stanford.EDU From: ray@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Ray Baxter) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment? Keywords: lawns fertility Message-ID: <9773@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Jun 89 04:41:40 GMT References: <24792@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <20388@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2876@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <1277@lafcol.UUCP> Sender: Ray Baxter <ray@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: ray@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Ray Baxter) Distribution: usa Organization: Biological Sciences, Stanford University Lines: 12 In-reply-to: logant@lafcol.UUCP (Tracy Logan)