Huge amount of grass clippings driving me crazy

[woody paul]

glyphosate then spray it green. 

[nepia]

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Edited May 25, 2023 by nepia

[GarethM]

5 minutes ago, woody paul said:

glyphosate then spray it green. 

Might as well just create a banksy mural

[doobin]

Find a contractor with a decent (emphasis on decent) flail collector. I’m in Sussex and this was yesterday afternoon’s half acre

[coppice cutter]

2 minutes ago, doobin said:

Problem is that before long that'll be a big gooey stinking mess and will remain so probably until next spring or that.

[doobin]

2 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

Problem is that before long that'll be a big gooey stinking mess and will remain so probably until next spring or that.

It’ll be gone and on to the muck heap once it’s wilted a bit. But yes, if you want to do no mow may and have a nice lawn, there are consequences. 

[pleasant]

The way i read the op's question it appears he wants to turn it into some sort of lawn. I dont see anywhere in his requirements that he wants a flower meadow, or hay...he wants to cut and collect the grass

[Conor Wright]

A tow behind grass vac like an agrimetal or trilo would make short work of the clippings. 

[coppice cutter]

2 hours ago, doobin said:

It’ll be gone and on to the muck heap once it’s wilted a bit. But yes, if you want to do no mow may and have a nice lawn, there are consequences. 

Yep, that'll work.

 

Spent yesterday afternoon clearing out the lambing shed and had a couple of weeks worth of fresh grass clippings from the lawns, around the fruit trees etc, which given the couple of weeks of extreme growth there has been was a lot.

 

Mixed it all up going on the dung heap and the nitrogen in the grass clippings will help break down the straw and hay from the lambing shed.

 

Might even be usable by this autumn.

[paddock]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. Really appreciate the responses.

 

I should have mentioned we do use the field as recreational "lawn", such as it is. A run area for our dogs and a few raised beds etc. so that's why I'm trying to keep it tidy so we don't drag clippings into the house.

 

It did look pretty much exactly like @doobin's photos before it was cut. The only difference being that the clippings are left behind instead of neatly piled up, so you can imagine it's not healthy for the grass.

 

I don't have a mulching deck for the mower but to be honest I really would prefer to lift the clippings completely. I don't mind the effort of emptying a sweeper as long as it'll actually pick the vast majority of clippings up which I'm not convinced it will if it's just an unpowered brush sweeper.

 

I'll take a look at the lawn vac and the ride-on recommendations from @pleasant.