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| 788181 | 2009-07-02 09:54:00 | got a lawn mower that just catches. tired of emptying the bin all the time so thought i'd look into converting it into a mulcher mower. somebody told me you can get mulching blades and just block up the exit chute. anyone heard of this or know where i can get the blades from ? web trawling does not seem to locate them in auckland from what i can find. cheers |
globe (11482) | ||
| 788182 | 2009-07-02 10:18:00 | It can be done. Victa for one supply blades for their version it mainly depends on your mechanical engineering ability. If you have to pay some one else to do the conversion it would be cheaper/better to just buy a purpose built mulching mower. Also be aware that you need to mow more often to get a reasonable finish. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 788183 | 2009-07-02 10:31:00 | Tie a goat, a cow and a lemming to the back of the mower. | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 788184 | 2009-07-02 14:20:00 | Bro don't even worry about the mulching, just take the catcher off and spray it all over the show. All good. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 788185 | 2009-07-02 19:25:00 | Just be prepared for some possible lawn fungus if you mulch and then you water toward the evening hours . That way, all the grass clipping will sink under the tops of the grass (good) and set up a mulch area (also good) but it becomes a hotbed for "faerie rings" or black mold . Returning the bound nitrogen from the clippings to the grass is a very good idea and feeds the lawn in a sorta cannibalistic-way! Prevention from possible mold/fungus is to NOT water when the sun won't actually get a chance to dry the mulch - like at sunset or dusk or even later in the evening/dark . I prefer to water deeply, ONLY two or three times a week at about 2-hours before sunrise . Shallow or short watering cycles allows the roots to not seek deeper, damper soil and the lawn will burn up if you miss a day or two (or week) with no water . Hardening the roots with deep . less frequent watering makes a healthy-er lawn . If you DO get mold/fungus - then just put some Listerine mouthwash into the container on a hose-end sprayer and shoot it all over the lawn, hitting the blackened areas hard, right up to run-off . This same treatment with 25% Listerine with 25% beer, 50% dish liquid detergent and a tablespoon of red wine is a tonic for roses and a lot of your garden plants . It kills thripes, bugs and aphids and creates a good social environment for friendly bacteria in the soil and also removes oils and dirt that plug up the stomas in the leaves, thereby permitting good respiration and oxygen-carbon dioxide crossover for the cell plasmolysis: {(C6H12O6 (aq) + 6 O2 (g) → 6 CO2 (g) + 6 H2O (l) | ΔG = -2880 kJ per mole of C6H12O6)} . . . of the plant . Liquid household ammonia and liquid dish soap in that same hose-end sprayer is a good monthly "green-up" treatment for lawns and shrubs Botany is a hobby of mine . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 788186 | 2009-07-02 20:37:00 | Hell Joe, you wasting quite a lot of good beer in that concoction. Best killer of garden pests - get some old cigarette butts (a lot), as well as a bit of ether, and leach all the nicotine from the butts. Filter and use as a spray. Effective against everything, but more so on protecting roses (Botany also a hobby of mine, but then I've got a lot of hobbyish interests). I've tried for a looooong time to clone/grow the perfect Black Rose. Unfortunately the genetics works against you - the gene for colour is not dominant so you always end up in the expressive phase with an off-colour. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 788187 | 2009-07-02 21:37:00 | Watering the lawn at this time of year in NZ is not a problem. We don't even need a hose (or human involvement) for it to occur. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 788188 | 2009-07-02 21:59:00 | We even go to the trouble of having the lawn's water air-mailed in. Frequently. For added watering frequency we have invented weekends and school holidays. The beer spray treatment is popular here for hedges, but the beer must be processed via the kidneys first to remove the headaches. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 788189 | 2009-07-02 22:16:00 | I have a mulcher on my ride on,can only be used as season gets dryer,or the wet grass blocks the area where belt turns and has been known to cause the belt to break due to stopping belts progress! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 788190 | 2009-07-03 03:59:00 | Hell Joe, you wasting quite a lot of good beer in that concoction . Best killer of garden pests - get some old cigarette butts (a lot), as well as a bit of ether, and leach all the nicotine from the butts . Filter and use as a spray . Effective against everything, but more so on protecting roses (Botany also a hobby of mine, but then I've got a lot of hobbyish interests) . I've tried for a looooong time to clone/grow the perfect Black Rose . Unfortunately the genetics works against you - the gene for colour is not dominant so you always end up in the expressive phase with an off-colour . sarel I raised some "Fire-n-Ice" a few years back, but now I only have some Mr . Lincoln, Chrysler Imperial, a v/Crimson Tide, a Lowell Thomas and a very olde fashioned Cardinal de Richelieu, which is always ill and needs lots of beer and wine . I like to give them the beer for the enzymes and the compounded sugars and yeast . Good thing they cannot tell a cheap beer from an expensive lager or Mexican/German . The Listerine kills a lot of fungus and such, and the dish soap cleans like a hot shower . We get year-round growing season here and if you just water them, they produce for the whole 365 . 25 . I have never had to cut them back for frost or snow, (Winter pruning) but I deadhead a lot of the time to keep the hips and the anti-flowering hormones to a minimum . I also defy the "rules" and go to the SECOND 5-leaflet set and cut there . That keeps the bush from caning too much, and I get very few horizontals too that way . |
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