I love the boys and girls that are in the UC system! (University of California)  I found this wonderful article by Ali Harvivandi and Victor A. Gibeault about “Mowing Your Lawn and Grasscycling”.  It is very informative and full of useful tidbits for you.  Follow the link to the PDF publication.

Mowing your Lawn and “Grasscycling”
http://ucanr.org/freepubs/docs/8006.pdf

This article covers

• How High to Mow
• When to Mow
• What to Do with the Clippings
• and more

Give it a read through!