Sentences with phrase «dried grass clippings»

Urine is collected in the base where it mixes with dried grass clippings or wood ash, creating a useful fertilizer.

I had started with fires in Redhill about a month after Josh died: first a small trash can in the backyard, then a pile of dried grass clippings in the woods behind my house; a stack of deadfall at a construction site, then three tires at the town dump; a few other minor lights around Redhill, until I set an old wooden shed ablaze on city park property.

Reduce this water loss by boosting the humidity around the plants with a thick layer of mulch such as dried grass clippings (placed over top of the plastic mulch, if using it).

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Another cause of drying is evaporation from the top of the soil, which can be controlled with a mulch of grass clippings — but then it's hard to see how wet the soil is.

Some growers believe that grass clippings are particularly helpful because thick layers of them can be thoroughly saturated to increase the humidity around pepper leaves and flowers in dry weather.

Grass clippings can either be fresh or dried, either way, it makes an incredible organic mulch which is great for your garden.

Nearby, Kate Lepper's Emergency Canisters and Leaf Preservers (both 2011), made up of dried leaves and grass clippings, encourage the audience to reconsider the relationship between humans and their environment.