Mulch, bag, or blow?

Blue Onion

What do you do with your lawn clippings?  Mulching cut and leave them to feed the soil?  Bag them up and dispose/compost?  Blow them out the side part of your mower (if it has that option) and leave longer blades of grass on the surface?  

Which and why?

Dovefromabove

Bagged

Our lawn clippings are a vital part of our composting. We don’t bag them … they go straight onto the compost heap. 

Posy

Same as Dove. Wouldn't waste a blade.

Fairygirl

Bagged

Same here too, apart from when I've used a weed and feed. It goes into the green waste for the council uplift. Grass is usually too wet to leave on the surface. 

I think you should have added that option @Blue Onion 

Woodgreen

Mulching cut

One third is added to the compost bin via a collecting mower, two thirds is mulch-mown.
(Excess collected grass is spread thinly on an area kept for the purpose, to compost in situ.)

Edited to add. Voted 'mulching cut' as more area is cut that way. But I too would not be without grass clippings for the compost bin, absolutely essential. Also, the collecting mower is less reliant on dry weather, and leaves a nicer finish around the house.

Dovefromabove

Bagged

I suspect this question is more about the effect on the lawn rather than other uses of the clippings. 

Woodgreen

Mulching cut

Dovefromabove said:

I suspect this question is more about the effect on the lawn rather than other uses of the clippings. 

In the areas I cut with a mulching mower the grass is not as strong or attractive as the areas I cut with the collecting mower. It seems odd really, as I had thought that the finely mulched clippings would feed the grass. The grass is thicker, greener and stronger where cut with the collecting mower, and I never feed it!
Moss content is about equal, but that's down to situation and climate.

Butterfly66

I’ve voted bagged but like some others no bags are involved! We compost most of ours at home but some goes straight into the council green waste bin when OH thinks there is already too much green in the home ones.

Lyn

All on the compost for us too. 

Topbird

Bagged

All of ours is collected. I don't like the look of lawn clippings just left and can't cope with it being traipsed indoors. I've tried using it as a mulch round raspberries and ended up with grass growing in the fruit patch.

Most goes in the compost but we have a lot of grass and, at the height of a wet summer, there is just too much for effective composting. I do store a bit to mix later with autumn leaves but some surplus goes in the council bin

BenCotto

Bagged

Two questions for @Blue Onion

Do American gardeners really use a blower to pile up lawn clippings? I would have thought that would be a fruitless task.

Do they not compost the mown grass? Or was composting what you meant by bagging?