What is BioClip Husqvarna?
The BioClip® kit converts your side discharge mower into a powerful mulching machine. Mulched clippings are cut repeatedly until they are reduced to miniscule particles, which are then returned to the soil in order to recycle vital moisture and nutrients and promote healthy future lawn growth.
What does BioClip mean?
Bioclip. A system for harvesting wool, in which sheep are injected with recombinant epidermal growth factor (EGF). This causes a natural disruption of hair growth, allowing the wool to be slid, glove like, from the sheep 4 weeks after the injection.
Can I mulch without a mulch plug?
You can mow without the bag or mulch plug installed, it will just do a poor version of mulching and you will have clumps of grass dropping out of the area where the mulch plug should be.
What is mulcher plug?
Many of our lawnmowers are now able to “mulch” grass clippings as well as collect or discharge them. This is possible thanks to a “Mulching Plug” which when fitted, blocks the discharge hole in the lawnmower deck. Here it is cut into very small pieces and blown back into the grass to help fertilise your lawn.
How do mulching lawn mowers work?
In the case of mulching lawn mowers, the mulch consists of grass clippings from the mowed turfgrass. The clippings are cut into fine pieces that fall easily to the soil surface. There, they can be rapidly broken down by soil microorganisms, which release nutrients from the mulched plant material back into the soil.
How do you install Husqvarna mulch plugs?
How to install a mulch kit on your Husqvarna lawnmower
- Remove the spark plug connector.
- Remove the collector.
- Flip the lawnmower on its side, so that the air filter is pointing up and the muffler down.
- Loosen and remove the blade bolt and dismount the blade.
- Mount the mulch blade and tighten the bolt.
What is mulching and its disadvantages?
Although using mulch has many benefits, it cal also be detrimental to the garden in mainly two ways: Overmulching can bury and suffocate plants. Mulch provides a convenient hiding place for pests. Bake your plants with excess heat if don incorrectly.
Is it bad to leave grass clippings on lawn?
Uses for Grass Clippings Note: Grass clippings are good for your lawn as they will offer healthy nutrients to your lawn’s soil, and it is still fine to leave them behind after mowing. Longer grass can invite lawn pests, which often hide in shady areas of your yard.
Should I use a mulching plug?
A “mulch plug” is necessary to mulch the grass clippings during mowing. The plug is used to close the discharge opening in the mowing deck and recycle the lawn clippings back into the blade area for repeated cutting and eventually deposited into the lawn as fine mulch.
Are mulching plugs any good?
A conventional mower with a mulch plug fitted (available for most mowers) is not usually a good mulch mower. At Eco Garden Maintenance we have tried fitting mulch plugs to some very expensive professional lawn mowers and the results have been ok but no way near as good as a properly designed mulch mower.
Is mulching better than side discharge?
No. Both side-discharge and mulching mowers leave grass blades behind. However, a mulching blade chops up clippings into finer pieces so they decompose faster and don’t clump as quickly. Using a side-discharge mower you may need to do your own mulching by running over your grass piles multiple times.