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colorado

Is grass clippings ok to use in the garden for soil prep. for tomatoes, carrots, etc. I mean could a disease be transmitted to the grass if you have a dog and it does its "thing" on the lawn, and thus transmitted to your soil????

10/4/2002 11:18:31 PM

porterville, calif.

Its great to use for your soil. Just remove his thing from the grass. You can always compost the grass and the heat will kill any thing left from his thing.

10/5/2002 3:26:20 PM

Montoursville, PA

From a purist viewpoint I believe dog and cat manure should not go into the compost pile. Any tiny bit of residual in grass clippings would be insignificant. More important there should be no broadleaf killers on the grass clippings as that residual can cause problems. Several rains leach away even that alert of poison residual in my mind...but again a purist may disagree. I do not put any clippings on my pile from a treated yard untill two mowings later or heavy spring rains have flushed the treatment into the soil.

In a general sense I use all the grass clippings and fall leaf material from three or four neighbors. Only one treats his lawn with spring broadleaf killers.

10/5/2002 4:12:19 PM