Mulching Mowers: Your Lawn’s Best Friend

Mulching mowers are the best, most economical way to “grasscycle” (return clippings to the lawn). The fine bits of grass decompose quickly, releasing nitrogen, potassium, and micronutrients back to the soil. This means less fertilizer treatments, if you want any at all.

Mulching mowers do not contribute to thatch build-up (layer of leaves, stems, and roots between the grass and soil). Thatch buildup likely means your lawn has too few worms and micro-organisms to break down the organic matter.

The good news? Finely chopped grass clippings help increase your soils microbial activity.

If you were to bag the clippings and put them on the curb as green waste, they enter our municipal waste stream and increase the waste management and landfill burden on our city because landfills are not designed to decompose materials fast.

Grasscycling throughout the growing season adds the equivalent of one synthetic fertilizer treatment to your lawn each year.

Helps build the soil over time, reducing erosion.

Saves your water bill by reducing evaporation in your lawn.