Cow Tea
Active Member
If you allow your grass to reach the HEALTHY height that it is supposed to, and DO NOT bag your grass, the dead grass actually contains more than enough nutrients to keep your lawn going.
When i moved into my new house everyone in the neighborhood was telling me id need to fert my lawn......well im in some fucking yuppie retard land here and no one has a clue as to what horticulture truely is.
So i just allow my grass to get somewhat tall, cut it (dont bag), and in one rain all of that dead grass is now leached back into the soil. Producing one of the lushest greenest lawns in my neighborhood.
Also, legumes, such as common clover and vetch, which grow with grass, attract bacteria that fix nitrogen from the air into the soil. There are parts of my yard that are so full of clover that I can always bag the grass (for compost) and never fertilize.