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Who Is Tired Of Mowing Their Lawn Every Four Days?
Who Is Tired Of Mowing Their Lawn Every Four Days?
With all the rain that many parts of the country have received so far this year, mowing once a week is pretty much out of the question. I live in the Chicagoland area and it seems like we have received rain about every other day since March. This is making my lawn grow so fast that I am mowing almost every four days. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to get all the rain. In my 35 plus years in lawn care service, I have been through enough droughts that I never complain about rain, even when we receive excess amounts.
Many people don't have the opportunity to mow but once a week. This can be a problem when the grass grows higher than normal. The key to having a green lawn, above anything else, is to mow high. Even when your lawn gets real long, if you mow high, it will retain most of its green color. You will notice from the picture to the right that the area that was just mowed still has a nice green color.
What about all the clippings that remain behind after mowing? Hopefully, you are not bagging the clippings. By bagging the clippings, you are robbing beneficial nutrients from your lawn. Most modern-day mowers do a fairly good job chopping up the grass blades, but occasionally, there may be some clipping clumps left behind. This is especially true if the grass was a little wet when you mowed and the clippings seem to stick to the wheels of the mower until a point when they will slough off. What I do is try to throw those clumps on to an area that has not been mowed yet and chop them up. If there are a lot of clipping clumps left behind after mowing, you may have to mow in a perpendicular direction to chop them up even more. Your other choice is to rake them up, which does not seem like much of a choice to me.
Think about it this way; mowing your lawn gives you some exercise, so it is to your benefit to mow a little more often. Your lawn will also appreciate it as well.