Mulching lawnmower

ispookie666

Does anyone have experience with lawnmowers which are good at mulching? 

 I'd prefer an electric version.
Lawn is around 120sqm. There is a huge horse chestnut 🌲 and the leaves are a pain to gather.  Fed up of using my Bosch Royal 34R, having to constantly empty it. 

The market seems to be full of petrol version. I don't think I can justify cordless ones

theonlywayisup

We use Viking mulchers, but they are petrol.   Mulchers are excellent as you don't have to 'empty' but you will find that you get grass everywhere - particularly when it's wet.  

ispookie666

theonlywayisup said:

We use Viking mulchers, but they are petrol.   Mulchers are excellent as you don't have to 'empty' but you will find that you get grass everywhere - particularly when it's wet.  

On the person who is mowing? 

theonlywayisup

ispookie666 said:

theonlywayisup said:

We use Viking mulchers, but they are petrol.   Mulchers are excellent as you don't have to 'empty' but you will find that you get grass everywhere - particularly when it's wet.  

On the person who is mowing? 

Not what I meant, but yes it does get all over your shoes - it's like confetti - but I meant that the mulch is fed back into the lawn and if you walk on it (or have animals like I do) the grass mulch sticks like glitter to you and them and is transported everywhere! 

ispookie666

Ah ok. Does it get better after a few days? 

Chickereeeee

At my previous house, I regularly mulched with my Toro petrol lawnmower. There were 21 trees  in that garden, so lots of leaves. Generally, regular 'mowing' through the leaf-dropping season kept the lawn under control, with occasional 'chop-then-collect' if the mulch got too deep. 

I moved to another house with just one, large, beach tree and changed to a Bosch cordless. I tried mulching with the Bosch, but got A LOT of thatch in the lawn by the end of summer. I think the new lawn has a finer grass type, and also the electric Bosch did not do as good a job at mulching and returning the bits back into the lawn. Otherwise, a great mower.