Yard Maintenance

GRASS RECYCLING
The Borough does not pick up or accept grass clippings either at the curbside or recycling center. Leave your clippings on the lawn when you mow and let Mother Nature do the recycling. Grass clippings provide a natural fertilizer for growing a lawn. UNDER NEW JERSEY STATE LAW, GRASS CLIPPINGS CANNOT BE COLLECTED FOR DISPOSAL AT THE LANDFILL!
Here are some alternatives:
1. GRASS — CUT IT AND LEAVE IT!
Leaving grass clippings on the lawn reduces mowing time by 20% - 25%, saves the expense of buying lawn bags, and cuts the amount of fertilizer required. What could be easier than cutting your lawn and not bagging clippings anymore? You will save time by not having to stop to empty your lawnmower bag. Homeowners that leave clippings on the lawn can actually reduce their total annual mowing time by 20% - 25%. You will also spend less on fertilizer; the clippings left on the lawn recycle nutrients, such as nitrogen, back to the soil. You might consider purchasing a mulching/recycling mower or adding a mulching attachment to your present mower. These attachments chop clippings into fine pieces which slip easily down into the soil.
2. MULCH CLIPPINGS INTO YOUR GARDEN
To mulch your grass clippings into your garden, place about an inch of grass clippings directly on the soil around plantings to moderate soil temperature and to reduce weed growth, soil spattering, erosion, compaction, evaporation and runoff. As a precaution, please wait at least 3 weeks and 2 lawn cuttings to utilize grass clippings in your garden after your lawn has been treated with herbicides. Another method of recycling grass clippings into your garden is to mix them directly into the garden soil. Since most NEW JERSEY soils are low in organic materials, applying fresh or composted clippings adds valuable organic matter. Grass clippings contain more nitrogen than horse manure.
3. CONSIDER BACKYARD COMPOSTING
Grass clippings are an excellent addition to the backyard compost pile.