Lawn Mowing Tips

Well the grass cutting season is getting into full swing so I figured I should offer up a couple of professional tips on how to properly care for a lawn.

The first and most important tip has to do with mowing height. The ideal height for mowing most lawns is between 3-4 inches the reason for this is that most residential and commercial lawns in Windsor are typically composed of a mix of Kentucky Bluegrass, Creeping Fescue, and Perennial Rye Grass. These particular types of grasses need to be fairly long before they can produce leaves, so if the lawn is cut to short the stems will be cut before the area where the leaves emerge, this makes it very hard for the lawn to photosynthesize and grow. this is why Precedence Landscaping keeps all of our mowers set to 3 inches.

The other tip is to make sure that the lawn mower being used to cut the grass has sharp blades, if the blades are not sharp they will tear the grass instead of cutting it cleanly. This can be seen a couple of days after the lawn has been cut as a fraying at the ends of the leaf blades. For the best results the blades of a typical homeowners lawn mower should be sharpened three times a year; once before the first mowing, again on Canada Day, and one more time on Labour Day. As for Precedence Landscaping, with our lawn mowers being used as much as they are, we sharpen the blades at least once a month as sometimes more in the spring and fall peak growing seasons in Windsor.

That’s all for now, as the season continues I’ll offer up some more tips.

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