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						Mulching Vs. Clippings Removal Mulching is not simply letting the clippings lay where they fall. Proper mulching requires a special blade and mower deck. ILG is well equipped to mulch. Never the less, we strongly recommend clippings removal (bag them behind the mower and empty them into a barrel) in the normal course of lawn mowing. Mulching is fine for golf course fairways where significantly less than 1/3 the height is being mowed every 36 to 48 hours or for the lawn where significantly less than 1/3 the height is being cut what ever the frequency.
			For the well fed home lawn being mowed no more often than once a week during periods of heavy growth, the mulched pieces of grass are simply too large to decompose readily. And the mulching process doesn't do a good job with leaves and small sticks that bagging tends to vacuum up. One of the worst things to do on any lawn is to do neither of the above.
				We once had a customer save a few dollars, he thought, by hiring ILG to only mow during the summer months when he had tenants in his Vineyard home. He was to take care of mowing that spring. Well, his one spring mow occurred in the middle of June. The grass was 8" to 10" high. He cut it and left it there. The effect was just the same as covering the lawn with a tarp. What lawn that might have remained was smothered and suffocated when we showed up on the first of his designated mowing dates in July. Needless to say there was no lawn to mow that summer and the homeowner ended up putting in a new lawn that fall. All because he wanted to save a few dollars on what would have been normal spring care back then for that size lawn. Was it Ben Franklin who said, "Penny wise and pound foolish"?
					For additional mowing topics, see Mulching Vs. Clippings Removal Why Sharp Blades Are Important "Signature" Mowing