Glass clippings for vegetable garden safe for compost?

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Michelle

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If I scoop my grass clippings into my garden to help prevent weeds from taking hold, and to give extra compost to my garden, would this be okay? Or does the grass take root and begin growing again?
Thanks for any advice? Also, is newspaper a safe and good weed preventative/compost additive? (I already use kitchen scraps and old flowers or plant leaves in my garden by cutting them into small pieces and letting them decay naturally)..I am just being over run by weeds, and I do everything completely 100% organic.
 
I used grass clippings for years. In fact, I told my neighbor that, when he was done cutting his grass, just throw the clippings over the fence and I would use them.

The only thing to be concerned about is if you use a high nitrogen fertilizer, like Miracle Gro. This causes a high nitrogen fertilizer content in the grass clippings. And, not all plants like that type of fertilizer. In fact, most flowering plant fertilizers are a lot more balanced (13-13-13, for example) than a high-nitrogen grass fertilizer.
 
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