When is it ok to start mowing the lawn
When to start mowing grass
hey there it's Pete would you see our
turf hope you're having a great day
check yourself now I don't know about
you but man there's nothing like mowing
a yard so I get asked quite often hey
Pete when do you start mowing well I got
a few things I'll look at that helped me
make that decision so first and foremost
I look at kind of the overall condition
of the yard
mainly the height of my grass of course
that's going to depend on where you live
it's going to depend on how you
fertilize when you fertilize your
current weather situation going on a lot
of different things come into play in
answering that question
this is turf type tall fescue you see
right here
I'm no more than 3 inches right here but
when I go over here I'm up around the 4
to 4 and a half inch Springs right Pete
how come the yards different heights and
different parts of the yard well it's
kind of blended you know it's blended
it's not like one section so much taller
than the other it's just high and low
spots all throughout the yard that's
completely normal in the spring wake up
let me put it to you this way do all
your kids get up by the bed the exact
same time every single morning nope
so that's kind of my first indicator
that I'm looking for I'm looking for an
average height of around four to four
and a half inches on my yard now when
the majority of my yard is around that
four to four and a half inch range
that's when I'm gonna really start
thinking hard about cutting the guard
all right so what some other indicators
you're looking for Pete well the second
thing is my local weather okay what I
don't want to do the absolute worst
thing I can do is come out here and cut
the yard
and then the day or day after I get a
super hard frost on it I don't want all
that open leaf blade and then a hard
frost hit it the only reason I said that
it's because I remember a few years ago
everybody was cutting their grass it was
early we had a exceptionally warm March
people started mowing their grass around
the second week of March or so and
around the third or fourth week of March
we had a super hard frost and we had
yards that literally turned white almost
as if you painted them with with a white
spray-paint it was the dangerous thing
I'd ever saw so since then I've always
kind of been mindful of the weather
that's coming up after my first or
second cut of the year now if you
already mowed your grass and you get a
hard Frost should you be worried well
maybe a little bit maybe not chances are
you know we're getting ready to go into
spring it's going to be nice and warm
getting some rain you're gonna be
feeding the yard again
I mean that yard is gonna come out and
do pretty well I here's something else
you might want to consider you might
want to get your schedule right because
once you start cutting that grass in the
spring it's gonna jump out of the ground
screaming now obviously different turf
types you're gonna start mowing at
different times I don't have a Bermuda
yard this is a 75% turf type tall fescue
and 25% midnight Kentucky bluegrass just
ruin about the second week of March and
I'm looking forward to cutting probably
this week I'll be sticking that video up
doing my first mow video coming up here
real soon so be sure to check that out
now you guys have a warm season grasses
down south
chances are hey you may be cutting
already if you've got Bermuda chances
are you've already went into your scalp
mode where you want to cut it down a
little lower to try to help wake that
Bermuda up you guys up north out in the
Midwest where you're still cold
you may still have a little time yet but
maybe these little indicators will help
you know when it's time to start cutting
the grass so to wrap all this up into
one little neat little ball just let
your grass tell you when it's time to
cut say thank you for watching my videos
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this is all tall fescue and bluegrass
and this summer at my office we're going
to be laying some zeorge asad and
Bermuda sod so I'm gonna have some warm
season videos moving forward so I show
you warm season guys kind of how we
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