Don't Bag Clippings:
Every turf scientist and workaday landscaper recommends forgoing the collection bag and setting the mower to mulch. That pulverizes the clippings and recycles them into the soil, saving water and fertilizer costs. With the bag, you may get lazy and let the lawn reach meadow height before finallly chopping it down (bad news since removing more than a third of their height harms the plants) but the mower can't effectively mulch that much material. And your better half most likely won't abide the clumps of hay it leaves behind. So unless you want to rake, you should to mow often!
-Josh Garskof (clipped from an article on mowing in Money Magazine
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