Summer Mowing Tips
When it comes to lawn care and making sure that your grass looks picture perfect, there are several different things you, as the homeowner, need to do. Taking a lawnmower over your grass every couple of weeks is simply not enough if you want your grass to have that lush, healthy green to it.
While mowing is not all you have to do, it is an important first step. Believe it or not, there is actually a right and wrong way to mow your lawn, and if you want your grass to look picture perfect, you will want to make sure you’re doing everything that you should be. When you are mowing your grass, be sure it is with a sharp blade to ensure a clean cut. When you don’t have a clean cut, and you tear away part of the grass blade as opposed to an even cut, you can dry out the tip of the blade. This makes your grass look brown and sickly, as opposed to green.
Another way to ensure you get the cleanest cut possible is to not mow your lawn while it is wet. Wet grass blades have an elasticity that, even with the sharpest of blades, will tear rather than cut cleanly. Also, try to adjust the height of the blade so that you’re never cutting more than about 35% of the blade. This helps keep the seed and roots cool, and doesn’t dry the grass nearly as quickly. Finally, be sure to not mow in the same direction too many times. If you mow north to south one week, try mowing east to west the next. This cuts back on the grass that is matted down by repeated treads with the wheels of the lawnmower, thus ensuring that your lawn doesn’t have those dreaded treads.
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