do shrub clippings = mulch ?? (or turn into?)

[mafibisha]

Ok y'all, do shrub cllippings left in the beds equal mulch? So did I read that here?

Its a budget question when you consider that less mulch would have to be bought!

Someone (somewhere on line) said they leave their shrub bed clippings in the shrub beds because they become brown and essentially, mulch!

Well I told DH who still wants to rake them up! Which also means that I will end up helping and can't go biking as long, grrrr

So anyone else hear that, or know that's true?

 

[disneyhand]

I think that is correct, but I believe that you need to use a shredding process on them first. I think it's called a "chipper"??

I bought one years ago when I first moved into this house, but I didn't like the mulch it produced. I wasn't shredding nice shrubs howerver, just natural stuff that grows wild here and is a fire hazard.

Here we can buy really cheap mulch at the dump, maybe you have that option as well?

 

[mafibisha]

I think that is correct, but I believe that you need to use a shredding process on them first. I think it's called a "chipper"??

I bought one years ago when I first moved into this house, but I didn't like the mulch it produced. I wasn't shredding nice shrubs howerver, just natural stuff that grows wild here and is a fire hazard.

Here we can buy really cheap mulch at the dump, maybe you have that option as well?

Thanks, good to know. I'll check into it.

BTW, you live in one of my favorite cities ever! Love San Diego!

 

[CTdiznymom]

Somewhere buried in my brain, I think someone told me it wasn't a good idea because the clippings are not treated like a store bought cedar mulch and it would encourage ant and termites. I would use them away from your foundation.

 

[eyor44]

I put all of my flower/shrub clippings in the compost pile first. Do you have that option? Means raking still, but less trash to go out and chipper for the next year.

 

[Swimalie]

I'm thinking I've been told not to since they can carry a disease and therefore carry that disease to the other plants. I had a compost bin in our house in Oregon that sadly, we had to leave, and they sad not to put in clippings. Grass and food are fine but not clippings. I think I'm remembering that right.