Have an excess of grass clippings. Can they be used around or between the plantings?

You can but I wouldn't use fresh ones right around the plant stems as they get super hot, jmo.

Is that you, Dan Quayle?

Whenever I use grass clippings I make sure there is a little distance between the clippings and the stems.

Moosetrot

If the lawn has been treated with broadleaf weedkiller you dont want it in the garden where everything but corn is a broadleaf.

Thanks so far. No chemicals here.

I have my potatoes in grow bags. 6 inches of dirt in the bottom that I planted them in and add straw as the stem grows.

What size grow bags?

5 gallon. Its my first time doing the bags. Next year I'm going with 7 gallon.

Thanks...

If you have access to chicken feed bags, use them. I planted 22 bags of potatoes this year. I roll the bags down to half size, plant the seed, and cover them as they grow, until the bags are back to full size and full of compost covering. The leaves are about two feet above the bags now. I hope they are plentiful, because my onions and beets are all greens and no roots.

It does help with keeping the weeds down , But we found that it brings on those white cut worms .

At least one person got it. Good one!