The longer the blades of grass become, the more resources it becomes used to consuming. This can sometimes kill your grass if it is unable to recover. Sometimes it needs additional irrigation to recover fully. If you wait until the grass is long to mow your lawn, the extra long grass clippings will clump up over the turf, blocking the sunlight and stunting growth. If left without raking, the clumped clippings could actually kill the grass.
A well-manicured lawn is most likely to be a healthy lawn. The stress of mowing is minimized when only one-third of the grass height is removed. When you wait too long between mowing, it becomes more difficult to stay within the recommended guidelines. For the least amount of stress, setting the mower higher and gradually reducing the height is the best option. The mower may have difficulty cutting down the tall grass even with an increased blade height.
A sharp blade is essential and moving slowly also helps the mower work efficiently to cut down the tall grass. When you do mow your tall grass, the clippings left behind are longer and more difficult to manage.
With regular mowing, the short clippings easily fall to the ground where they decompose and add nutrients to the soil. Longer grass clippings tend to sit on top of the lawn in unattractive clumps. Those clippings also block sunlight to the turf grass, affecting its growth. Mowing the lawn frequently reduces the clumped piles of grass clippings. Many nuisance ordinances are complaint-driven, meaning there are no Grass Inspector Patrol cars trolling the neighborhood, looking for offending lawns.
Officials check out a site only when a neighbor calls to complain. So, say you do need to cut the front yard to avoid that hefty fine from the city. If you bring out the lawnmower and cut it down to a few inches all at once you may end up with another problem. As a guide from the University of Arkansas Extension explains, never cut more than one-third of the leaf in a single mowing.
A different option for a low-maintenance lawn that could still meet HOA and nuisance ordinance guidelines is a no-mow lawn, one that uses certain grass types to create a flowing grass cover that has longer blades but still maintains a tidy appearance. According to Prairie Nursery, which carries a specially designed No Mow Lawn Seed Mix that blends different fescue grasses for those who live in the right climate, not mowing the lawn at all will result in a turf with leaves that grow to about 6 inches in height and drape over one another.
You can even mow a no-mow lawn, in the spring and fall, or even more regularly. The legal cases continue for the right to not mow, or to eschew grass entirely. Roland expects a ruling in the Duffner allergy case in Missouri any day. Gul, having lost at the appeals court level, still fights the fight in his own way. It kills grass. Daniel Ray contributed to this report. Main image credit: Snowmanradio. Skip to content. He has won 15 awards from the North Carolina Press Association and GateHouse Media, for pieces ranging from news features and investigative reporting to photography and multimedia projects.
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